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Birthday Wishes: Woody Allen, Nervously, Turns 78
Cinema's most prolific eccentric turns 78 today. Woody Allen is one of American film's most important filmmakers, from classics like Annie Hall and Manhattan to this year's Blue Jasmine. His grasp of comedy, of dialogue, of formal control, all impress in even ...
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Birthday Wishes: Owen Wilson
Happy 45th birthday to Owen Wilson, the blondest, nose-iest man in the business. The brother to Luke Wilson and former college roommate of Wes Anderson (oh, the perfectly quaint ragers they must have hosted!) has forged his own broad brand of success throughou...
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‘Blue Jasmine’ Is Woody Allen’s Most Intricately Constructed Film In 20 Years
Woody Allen has carved a long career out of psychoanalyzing characters’ neuroses, illnesses, and mental obstacles. More often than not, it’s been a potent mixture of affecting drama and self-aggrandizing humor in keeping with Allen’s own sense of himself, and ...
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The Woody Allen Retrospective: Part 1
With the upcoming release of Blue Jasmine, we here at Movie Mezzanine decided dive back into the past to examine the voluminous and brilliant filmmaking career of Woody Allen. Since the peerless auteur has helmed over 40 feature films, we've divided the retros...
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Titular Characters: How the Wrong Font Can Destroy a Film
Don’t judge a book by its cover.
It’s a phrase we heard ad nauseum growing up, even before we learned how to read the blocks we’d arranged in our playpen, let alone an entire book. Eventually, of course, it became clear that the phrase had other, more univers...
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Movie Mettle: 5 Travel Movies To Test Your Limits
Movie Mettle is a weekly column for moviegoers with weak constitutions. Wish you had the balls to sit through the goriest of horror movies? Want to build up your resistance to weepy rom-coms? Each week we’ll give you a range of five movies that will test your ...
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Battle of Directors: Woody Allen vs. Charlie Chaplin
Battle of Directors is a weekly column that pits two filmmakers against one another, sheds light on their respective filmographies, and then asks readers to state which director they prefer. Thoughtful discourse and discussion is encouraged and desired. Enjoy!...
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