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Bleeding By the End: An Interview with “Whiplash” Director Damien Chazelle
Only 29, Damien Chazelle has already written and directed two feature-length films, the little-seen (no longer, one hopes) Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (2009), and now Whiplash, a Sundance Film Festival Audience Award winner this past January. Emotionally ...
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The Eyes Behind the Mask: “Pulp Fiction” and Postmodernity 20 Years Later
“I’m American, honey. Our names don’t mean shit.”---Butch Coolidge, Pulp Fiction
In his essay “Postmodernism and Consumer Society,” Marxist critic Frederic Jameson argues that the concept of postmodernism is primarily a product of the social and economic or...
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Video Essay: What Is Noir?
With the release of Peter Labuza's "Approaching the End: Imagining Apocalypse In American Film", The Critical Press has put together this video essay describing how the noir responds to classical Hollywood melodrama and continues to pervade today's movies. You...
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With A Little Help From Our Friends
Every week, With a Little Help from Our Friends 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 …
"The Affair Advances Hollywood’s Hea...
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Days of Future Past: Looking Back at Shane Carruth’s “Primer” After 10 Years
When Primer was released in 2004, Shane Carruth—the film’s writer, director, producer, composer, editor, and one of its two main actors—was barely past 30, and he’d spent a couple of years assembling the film on his laptop for a final production cost of about ...
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“They Live” and Apocalyptic Tech Noir
Editor's note: Today we're proud to present readers with an exclusive passage from Peter Labuza's upcoming book Approaching the End: Imagining Apocalypse in American Film. Be sure to pick up the book up when it comes out next week, October 14, from The Critica...
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With A Little Help From Our Friends
This week we have the MPAA taking one step forward and two steps back, Joaquin Phoenix and Marvel, and the big Ebola scare.
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Overview: David Fincher
In our Overview series, Movie Mezzanine staffers go through the work of a director, one film at a time.
Even now, 10 features into his career, David Fincher’s status in the cinematic firmament is still very much up in the air, with each new film of his offer...
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Top 5 David Fincher Movie Moments
David Fincher's new film, Gone Girl, is his latest adaptation of a populist novel (after Fight Club and The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo), this time written by Gillian Flynn. In a classic use of the unreliable narrator, we follow Nick Dunne (played in the film ...
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Top 5 Movie Mathematicians
Alan Turing helped the Allies win World War II, and made enough significant contributions to mathematics, computer science, technology, philosophy and artificial intelligence to have influenced countless subsequent people in each field. Graham Moore’s screenpl...
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