Angelo Muredda

Angelo Muredda is a Columnist at Movie Mezzanine. Based in Toronto, his freelance work has appeared at Cinema Scope, The Walrus, Film Freak Central, cléo, The Toronto Review of Books, and Torontoist. He’s completing a Ph.D. in Canadian fiction and film at the University of Toronto.

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“Stored in the Thighs”: On “Maps to the Stars” and David Cronenberg’s Comedies of Physical Frailty

9 years ago by Angelo Muredda

Depending on where you stand, the past year has either been a watershed for David Cronenberg or another measured auteurist step. In September, the Toronto-based filmmaker joined a small club of septuagenarian debut novelists, releasing Consumed, an equally pul...

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American Ambivalence: Sizing Up Clint Eastwood’s Late Style Aberration

9 years ago by Angelo Muredda

Speaking to David Poland about Clint Eastwood’s take on his Hereafter script late in 2010, Peter Morgan admitted to some surprise at the film’s fast-track development from inception to realization, noting that the venerable director wanted to shoot his first d...

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The Prestige Freak Show: Eddie Redmayne’s Metamorphosis in “The Theory of Everything”

9 years ago by Angelo Muredda

It’s the year of “Oscar’s metamorphosis,” Jenelle Riley beamed in the header of a recent Variety survey of the lead performances anchoring the season’s graduating class of prestige pictures. Reese Witherspoon, she noted, shed her sunshiny demeanour to play a r...

Defanging the Unthinkable

A Fitting, Impressive Goodbye

The Ambivalent, Bittersweet "My Life as a Zucchini"

The Complex Morality of "No Country for Old Men"

A New Way of Telling Love Stories

Breaking Standards with Julian Rosefeldt of "Manifesto"

Indulging Mightily with Alex Ross Perry and the "Golden Exits" Cast

The Ultimate Meta-Performance: Kate Lyn Sheil on "Kate Plays Christine"

Now Playing: "From Nowhere"

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Now Playing: "War on Everyone"

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Mousterpiece Cinema, Episode 287: "Kundun"

Mousterpiece Cinema, Episode 286: "Pinocchio"

Mousterpiece Cinema, Episode 285: "That Darn Cat"

Mousterpiece Cinema, Episode 284: "The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement"

Defanging the Unthinkable

A Fitting, Impressive Goodbye

The Ambivalent, Bittersweet "My Life as a Zucchini"

The Complex Morality of "No Country for Old Men"

A New Way of Telling Love Stories

Breaking Standards with Julian Rosefeldt of "Manifesto"

Indulging Mightily with Alex Ross Perry and the "Golden Exits" Cast

The Ultimate Meta-Performance: Kate Lyn Sheil on "Kate Plays Christine"

Now Playing: "From Nowhere"

Now Playing: "Fifty Shades Darker"

Now Playing: "War on Everyone"

Now Playing: "The Salesman"

Mousterpiece Cinema, Episode 287: "Kundun"

Mousterpiece Cinema, Episode 286: "Pinocchio"

Mousterpiece Cinema, Episode 285: "That Darn Cat"

Mousterpiece Cinema, Episode 284: "The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement"

Defanging the Unthinkable

A Fitting, Impressive Goodbye

The Ambivalent, Bittersweet "My Life as a Zucchini"

The Complex Morality of "No Country for Old Men"

A New Way of Telling Love Stories

Breaking Standards with Julian Rosefeldt of "Manifesto"

Indulging Mightily with Alex Ross Perry and the "Golden Exits" Cast

The Ultimate Meta-Performance: Kate Lyn Sheil on "Kate Plays Christine"

Now Playing: "From Nowhere"

Now Playing: "Fifty Shades Darker"

Now Playing: "War on Everyone"

Now Playing: "The Salesman"

Mousterpiece Cinema, Episode 287: "Kundun"

Mousterpiece Cinema, Episode 286: "Pinocchio"

Mousterpiece Cinema, Episode 285: "That Darn Cat"

Mousterpiece Cinema, Episode 284: "The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement"

Angelo Muredda

All posts by Angelo Muredda

“Stored in the Thighs”: On “Maps to the Stars” and David Cronenberg’s Comedies of Physical Frailty

American Ambivalence: Sizing Up Clint Eastwood’s Late Style Aberration

The Prestige Freak Show: Eddie Redmayne’s Metamorphosis in “The Theory of Everything”

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