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“Killer’s Kiss” At 60″
The imperfect, frequently bush-league Killer's Kiss fits almost too neatly into Stanley Kubrick's storied career. As his second feature following Fear & Desire, which he famously sought to suppress, it figures as his last first draft before the evolutionar...
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The Savage Cinematic Beauty of Alexander McQueen
Striking compositions. Immaculate execution. Unapologetic provocations. It may sound like the work of a cinematic enfant terrible like Lars von Trier or Harmony Korine, but from the iconic bumsters to the horn adorned jackets to the infamous 12 inch scaled hee...
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The Directors Who Influenced “Dear White People”
Like so many others before me, I fell into the trap: After sitting down with Dear White People director Justin Simien, the first thing I brought up was Spike Lee. And while my comment didn’t directly concern the fact that both Simien and Lee are black American...
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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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Criticism in the Youtube age: The Video Essay in Conversation
“Sometimes you have to look at the postmodern set of circumstances we live in and conclude that the way we review things hasn't changed nearly to the same degree that art has changed.”
Though this quote from Winston Rowntree's recent piece for Cracked isn...
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David Cronenberg Slams Stanley Kubrick’s ‘The Shining’
In the past few weeks, it's been all the rage to rag on Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. The man behind the tale of extreme writer's block and telekinesis, Stephen King, recently called the 1980 adaptation of his classic horror novel "misogynistic," among other ...
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Ten Best Movies from the 1980s
When we asked the readers of Movie Mezzanine what we could do to better with this "History of Film" feature, the response was understandable and pragmatic: Dive into the films you're hailing as "the best of the decade," as opposed to slapping together a list o...
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History of Film: Stanley Kubrick’s ‘The Shining’
Michael Mirasol discusses Kubrick's horror masterpiece.
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