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5 Movies Influenced By David Lynch’s “Twin Peaks”
Twin Peaks is one of the most influential television shows of all-time, having inspired countless subsequent series and effectively changing the way TV is made and how culture understands and interacts with it. Thanks to David Lynch, Mark Frost, the other writ...
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With A Little Help From Our Friends
On this week's With A Little Help From Our Friends, we have articles about Radiohead soundtracks, LGBT representation in film, Woody Allen movies and more.
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8 Great Modern Films in Black & White
Films have been in color, in one way or another, since nearly the beginning of the medium. From meticulously hand-painted prints like in the films of Georges Méliès to additive color systems like Kinemacolor in the early 1900s, black and white has never been e...
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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. Check out the links, and feel free to share more good stories in the comment section.
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6 Recent Movies With Wasted Premises
Sometimes, people get fantastic and brilliant ideas. Occasionally, these people have the resources and wherewithal in order to see their idea come to pure fruition, a successful expression of an inspired vision. More often than not, unfortunately, either the p...
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The Claire Denis Retrospective
Claire Denis is a woman of few words, so I shall use that as an excuse to introduce this retrospective briefly. Though I have seen all of Denis' features now, it feels to me that we barely know each other, that the more we learn, the more we know we do not kno...
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Should Superhero Films be Animated Instead?
With the latest trailer of Big Hero 6, another superhero movie has entered the fray, though this time it will be fully animated, as compared to ongoing trend of having these comic book creations filmed in live-action. But as more and more superhero story lines...
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7 Troubled Productions That Ended Up Being Great Anyway
By now, the fact that Richard Linklater’s Boyhood was shot over twelve years is essentially a common household piece of trivia. Of course, this longevity was by design - it tells the story of a family over the course of as many years as a couple’s son grows up...
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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. Check out the links, and feel free to share more good stories in the comment section.
For your reading enjoy...
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Primates: Human Mirrors in Cinema
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What do we see when we look at an ape?
Throughout history, we have been drawn to how much they resemble us. No other animal comes close in our anatomical, behavioral, developmental, physiological and reproductive similaritie...
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