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All posts by Kyle Turner
5 Directors Who Got Snubbed While Their Films Got Nominated
It’s that time of year again, yes, Oscar season. And much love was bestowed on white people and more specifically idiosyncratic white men. But so be it. The Director category looks fairly game this year, if not completely surprising, with nominations going to ...
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Video Essay: Kevin B. Lee’s The Best Films of the Decade So Far
The people have spoken! Remember those half decade lists I was talking about and how the remarkable Kevin B. Lee started all this kerfuffle? Well, the esteemed video essayist has completed his daunting task in polling 290 film critics and cinephiles and the re...
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To Half and Half Not: The Films to Remember from 2010 – 2014
The end of the year is, undoubtedly, a time of reflection: what we’ve experienced, what we’ve learned, how many resolutions we broke and what we’re going to do to rectify that, etc. It is also the time of lists. Lists, lists, lists. The internet in mid to late...
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It Had to Be Her: Celebrating Diane Keaton’s Birthday
Diane Keaton may be best known for The Godfather and Annie Hall, but little do folks know that she once had the ambition to become a singer. She’s played them in movies from time to time, but I don’t know if we should hold our breaths for an album of standards...
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Video Essay: Style as Substance – The Style of Xavier Dolan
For the past year or so, I've vehemently defended the work of Xavier Dolan, the 25-year-old Quebecois director who recently won the Cannes Jury Prize for his fifth film, Mommy. The arguments against him are usually the same: his films are mawkish and maudlin, ...
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The Great Movies Life: Roger Ebert’s Best Essays
Last night, CNN aired Steve James’ lovingly intimate documentary on the life and work of the iconic Roger Ebert, Life Itself. An incredibly sensitive portrait examining his strength, influence, and humanity, the doc contains excerpts from his criticism from th...
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Welcome to The Balcony!
Hello, folks! If you couldn’t tell, here at Movie Mezzanine, we absolutely revere the silver screen. Our cinematic tastes are eclectic and varied, ranging from continually revisiting and updating the canon to going outside of it to find treasures that we take ...
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“Life Partners”
In the middle of the road, two young women shout profanities and expletives at one another, one accusing the other of cutting them off, the other making the accusation that their side-view mirror was almost clipped. They’re actually best friends and this is th...
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“The Way He Looks”
To call The Way He Looks “slight” is by no means a pejorative. Its small ambitions and very compactness is why it succeeds, even to some degree exceeding expectations. Yet it has all the ingredients for a clichéd cocktail: part coming-out, part coming-of-age, ...
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“The Heart Machine”
The Blu-ray release of Her includes a short documentary called Her: Love in the Modern Age, a concise and straightforward survey of a bunch of people discussing how technology has changed the trajectory of romantic relationships in the 21st century. It’s not a...
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