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Film Love is Blind: Our Cinematic Infatuations
Perhaps I say this because I live an insulated lifestyle, but I believe cinema has a power to bring out both the best and the very worst in us. You'll find a film that you adore and laud it loudly, but then you encounter someone with the opposite opinion, and ...
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Dark Darren: Aronofsky on His Craft
Dark cult-film director, Darren Aronofsky, whose birthday is today, talks of his journey to filmmaking. To many viewers, it will be relieving to hear such a critically-acclaimed, contemporary auteur speak of his lack of direction upon entering college, and cha...
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6 Passion Projects That Beat The Odds
Belle and Sebastian leader Stuart Murdoch wrote and directed God Help the Girl, an incredibly charming indie musical that has just hit theaters and VOD. This film was a passion project of his that had been in some state of development for at least ten years, a...
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7 Troubled Productions That Ended Up Being Great Anyway
By now, the fact that Richard Linklater’s Boyhood was shot over twelve years is essentially a common household piece of trivia. Of course, this longevity was by design - it tells the story of a family over the course of as many years as a couple’s son grows up...
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Aronofsky’s “Noah” Can’t Keep Its Head Above Water
Love him or hate him, Darren Aronofsky has always been a filmmaker with vision. Be it in the unrelenting close-ups and quick-cuts of Requiem for a Dream, the body-horror of Black Swan or the breathtaking celestial sights of The Fountain, he’s a director who re...
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Top 10 Romantic Fantasy Films
As anyone who has watched nearly any animated Disney film knows, romance and fantasy fit splendidly together. The dizzying rapture of love manifests physically in elements that are very much not of this world. It becomes at once familiar and strange, frighteni...
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I Give You My Son: On Cinema As Authorial Therapy, Part 2
It was interesting ending the previous segment with Synecdoche, New York, which ended in the author's creation being led to ruin and despair, because a surprising amount of these authorial therapy films feature apocalypses or apocalyptic imagery to convey the ...
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The Darren Aronofsky Retrospective: ‘The Fountain’
The Movie Mezzanine Filmmaker Retrospective series takes on an entire body of work--be it director's, screenwriter's, or otherwise--and analyzes each portion of the filmography. By the final post of a retrospective, there will be a better understanding of the ...
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