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This Week on MUBI: “Sonatine”
In this week's column, Jake Cole looks at Takeshi Kitano's Yakuza film "Sonatine."
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Introducing Adult Beginners
Here's the most embarrassing sentence I’ve ever had to write in my ten-year career as a film critic: until last week, I’d never seen Citizen Kane.
Determine for yourself how lame my excuse is: New Yorkers can almost always count on getting to see great new pr...
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“Listen to Me Marlon” Is A Worthy Tribute to Brando
You could thumb through a thesaurus all day and still not find sufficient hyperbole to describe Marlon Brando's impact on the craft of acting. A prize pupil of Stella Adler, who brought the Stanislavsky Method to America, Brando blew it all up. Overnight, the ...
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Looking Back (Into Darkness): Abraham Polonsky’s “Force of Evil”
When sniffing for evidence of "subversion" in Abraham Polonsky's work, surely the House Un-American Activities Committee didn't have to look much further than the opening of his 1948 directorial debut, Force of Evil. The camera tilts down from the New York sky...
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Bleeding By the End: An Interview with “Whiplash” Director Damien Chazelle
Only 29, Damien Chazelle has already written and directed two feature-length films, the little-seen (no longer, one hopes) Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (2009), and now Whiplash, a Sundance Film Festival Audience Award winner this past January. Emotionally ...
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“Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr.” An Intimate, Bittersweet Portrait Of A Star’s Conflicted Father
Airing this month on HBO, Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr. is an intimate documentary portrait of the father of one of the most famous actors of our time. Robert De Niro, Sr. was a well-regarded abstract expressionist painter in the 1940s and 50s wh...
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In Memoriam: Gordon Willis (1931-2014)
Cinema lost a true great when it was announced that legendary cinematographer Gordon Willis passed away. Gordon Willis was responsible for some of the greatest looking pictures of all-time over the course of his 31 year career. His trademark shadow-play is ins...
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How We Fell In Love With the Movies
'Tis the day of love, this February 14th, and thus we'll all be focusing on the loves that make our lives worth while, whether they exist or not. But no matter how many times your heart is broken by another person, you could at least always count on great movi...
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History of Film: 1970s Results
Over the past two weeks hardworking Movie Mezzanine authors have penned impassioned and thoughtful examinations of the ten best movies of the 1970s (as voted here). Now that the ten movies you folks chose to define a decade in cinema have been revealed, it's t...
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History of Film: ‘The Godfather’ and ‘The Godfather Part II’
Coppola's first two tales of the Corleone family aren't just great crime movies, they're cultural touchstones.
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