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All posts by Jake Cole
Netflix Instant Picks 2/1/13—2/7/13
Every week at Movie Mezzanine, we pick some of the best films currently on Netflix Instant in the United States and Canada. Whether they are big releases or hidden gems, these movies make your subscription worth the price. From each library we select one Newly...
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Palette Cleansers: Canyon Passage
Color is one of the most evocative and immediately arresting aspects of film composition. Its use can be psychological, emotional, fantastical, realistic, or anything else filmmakers wants it to be. Every week, Palette Cleansers spotlights a film whose use of ...
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Shelf Life: Trash
Shelf Life is a weekly feature that selects a film currently on DVD/Blu-Ray for review.
Paul Morrissey’s Trash begins with a failed blowjob and ends with the offer of another. In-between, its use of verité camera techniques, harshly recorded direct sound (a...
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Netflix Instant Picks 1/25/13-1/31/13
Every week at Movie Mezzanine, we pick some of the best films currently on Netflix Instant in the United States and Canada. Whether they are big releases or hidden gems, these movies make your subscription worth the price. From each library we select one Newly...
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Something Old, Something New: The End of Evangelion / It’s Such a Beautiful Day
Something Old, Something New is a weekly feature that creates a double feature with a film released in the last few years and an older movie. These films contain aesthetic, narrative and/or thematic parallels that can erase decades of separation and show how i...
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Shelf Life: Graveyard of Honor (Takashi Miike, 2002)
Shelf Life is a weekly feature that selects a film currently on DVD/Blu-Ray for review.
Takashi Miike’s freewheeling genre-hopping and jaw-droppingly prolific rate of production give neophytes so many access points that there almost may as well be none at a...
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Netflix Instant Picks 1/18/13-1/24/13
Every week at Movie Mezzanine, we pick some of the best films currently on Netflix Instant in the United States and Canada. Whether they are big releases or hidden gems, these movies make your subscription worth the price. From each library we select one Newly...
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Something Old, Something New: The Last Temptation of Christ / Lincoln
Something Old, Something New is a weekly feature that creates a double feature with a film released in the last few years and an older movie. These films contain aesthetic, narrative and/or thematic parallels that can erase decades of separation and show how i...
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Shelf Life: Phantom Lady (Robert Siodmak, 1944)
Shelf Life is a weekly feature from that selects a film currently on DVD/Blu-Ray for review.
Anyone who has seen Robert Siodmak’s The Killers knows the director’s gift for shadows. With his cinematographer, Elwood Bredell, Siodmak cast the extrapolated adap...
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Blu-Ray Review: Wake in Fright
From its opening 360-degree pan, Ted Kotcheff’s Wake in Fright paints the Australian wild as a terrifying void where the only thing more unsettling than desert as far as the eye can see are the false oases of ostensible civilization that grow out of the dust. ...
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