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The Balcony (10 posts found)
A new section of the theater where you’ll find another view of the silver screen. With lists, galleries, recommendations, and more, the view from above is always swell.
So Your Festival Darling Was Bought By Harvey Weinstein
Congrats, lucky filmmaker! Your film was purchased for a record high at a prestigious film festival, and the receipt bears the signature of none other than Harvey Weinstein. Last year at the Berlin Film Festival, Weinstein purchased the U.S. rights to The Imit...
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One Sheet: A Collection of Detective Noir Posters
One of my favorite subgenres of film is the detective noir. To me, nothing beats watching hyper-masculine men and femme fatales spit out witty lines of dialogue and act tough as nails. The birth of the anti-hero largely came from these films, and its character...
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The Celluloid Catwalk: Fashion on Film
Everything looks dreamy on the silver screen. Fashion on film then is the ultimate definition of glamour. As the great philosopher David Bowie has said, or rather, sung, “it’s big and it’s bland and it’s full of fear,” through the cinematic lens, clothes are n...
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An Ode to Jack Burton
Today is the 64th birthday of actor Kurt Russell. A glorious man who built his career on Disney Pictures and becoming John Carpenter's John Wayne. That dissonance between action hero and Disney star gives example to the diverse skill set Russell had all throug...
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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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Opening Acts 3/16/2015
Opening Acts highlights the best pieces of writing on film, television, and literature published around the Internet. Please share if you like what you see.
For your reading enjoyment …
Hey Bro, Let It Go: How The Frat Pack Fell Apart, by Benjamin Lee. Lee ...
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The Road Less Traveled: Five Who Went Back to Nature
If you're a big believer of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, then abandoning all your possessions and heading back to nature is the only way to cure society of its ills. Modern life takes a leap forward with each passing decade, and sometimes, with each new technologica...
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In Memoriam: Approaching the End of Liam Neeson’s Action Career
Last week, Liam Neeson announced that he would most likely be quitting action movies in 2 years. Today, we mourn the oncoming loss that will be his retirement from action extravaganzas. I can understand why Neeson is planning this: he is 62 right now and is ac...
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Sex and Death on Film 101
Sexual education in North American schools is lacklustre to say the least, slowly progressing and occasionally spouting misinformation (it’s supposed to be HOW big?). As a result, many young people first learn about sex and related issues from movies and telev...
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5 Films to See for International Women’s Day
International Women's Day began as a socialist movement to both call attention to the societal and political disadvantages women faced and celebrate the political and economic achievements of women. As time passed on the event morphed into something more resem...
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