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Looking Back (7 posts found)
Looking Back: ‘Perfume: The Story of a Murderer’
Looking back at my history with Perfume: The Story of a Murderer started about as well as it did for everyone in the United States, with a “huh”? I can remember seeing the little screen number placard at the theater and being intrigued by the title, but like m...
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Looking Back: ‘Adventureland’
High school graduate James Brennan (Jesse Eisenberg) is going to Europe in the summer and Columbia University after that. However, his parents—who are in dire straits financially—advise him to take up a summer job. James ends up a lowly games operator at a sha...
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Looking Back: ‘Terminal Station’
It's unsurprising how little-known Terminal Station is, even among fans of stars Montgomery Clift, Jennifer Jones or director Vittorio De Sica. But then it has been going by another name since it was released in a truncated version in 1954 - that would be the ...
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Looking Back: ‘The Girl in the Cafe’
It seems there are a lot of folks out there who hate Richard Curtis, an odd phenomenon for a filmmaker who specializes in love. Having essentially defined the modern British rom-com in his scripts for Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, and Bridget Jone...
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Looking Back: ‘It Happened One Night’
We get so used to some movies simply being around that our own praise for them may itself become a cliché. The minute It Happened One Night is brought up, a handful of old chestnuts gets inevitably evoked: its classic status as the ultimate romantic comedy, it...
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Looking Back: ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’
Originally founded by retired Mezzanine writer Andreas Stoehr, "Looking Back" is a column that allows Mezzanine staffers to reexamine and reevaluate a film of the past.
As time passes and life limps onward, many films have reevaluated the cultural damage do...
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