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10 Films Mishandled by the MPAA
Firstly, you’ll notice that I am not Scott Nye. He has moved on to bigger and better things, so I hope I can bring half as much insight and fun to these lists as he did.
The ratings board for the Motion Picture Association of America is a fickle organization...
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Every Little Tear: The Transcendent Beauty of “Crying” in “Mulholland Drive”
Songs in the Key of Cinema is a bi-weekly look at the use of songs in film. We’ll explore how a piece of music fits within the context of a film as a whole, and we’ll cover the moments in cinema that were music to our eyes and ears.
Infamous for his abstra...
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With A Little Help From Our Friends
It’s difficult to keep track of everything everyone is writing at all times. We’re not going to try to do that. What we at Movie Mezzanine will attempt is to roundup at least ten of the most interesting reads (articles, interviews, think pieces, and the like) ...
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How Spike Lee’s “Do The Right Thing” Changed My Perception of Black America For The better
"On Second Thought" is a weekly column filled with personal written and visual reflections on all things cinematic by critic and video essayist Michael Mirasol.
1989 was a turning point in my life. My family moved into a new home, a two-story house in a...
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The Studio Ghibli Retrospective: “The Wind Rises”
"The wind is rising! ... We must try to live!"
~Paul Valéry
The Wind Rises may be classified as a "biopic," but it is less a document of a man than it is of a dream: beginning with its birth, progressing through its lifespan, and then finally waving a tearfu...
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Korine’s Angels: The Ironic Harmony of “Everytime” and “Spring Breakers”
Songs in the Key of Cinema is a bi-weekly look at the use of songs in film. We'll explore how a piece of music fits within the context of a film as a whole, and we’ll cover the moments in cinema that were music to our eyes and ears.
There were snickers in ...
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9 Spectacular Overlooked Movie Musicals
Some time ago, it dawned on me that there is no film genre I love as much as I love the musical. It's the perfect marriage of form and content - Kubrick once said that "film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of m...
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Robots: Cinema’s Electric Dreams
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Another blockbuster film season is upon us, which brings another showcase of robots. When one thinks about it, our images of them are as old as the movies themselves. Like the cowboy, was there ever a time when we visualised the...
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A Letter to Roger Ebert
Dearest Roger,
Happy Birthday big guy! That's what I would always email you on your birthday. Today! Has it really been more than a year since you've left us? I still find myself checking your Twitter and Facebook accounts to see if you're really there. But...
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8 Movies About Summers As An Adult
Summer on film is, understandably, largely portrayed as a time for young people. School's out, sun's out, time to grow and mature while retaining minimal commitments. But summer comes to mean quite a different thing as an adult, retaining though it might the t...
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