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Looking Back: “Alice or the Last Escapade”
“To the memory of Fritz Lang.” So reads the dedication at the opening credits of Claude Chabrol’s remarkable 1977 film Alice or the Last Escapade. Long known as “the French Hitchcock” for his suspenseful dissections of the bourgeoisie, Chabrol deeply admired L...
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Songs in the Key of Cinema: “Born to Be Wild” and the Provocation of Lars von Trier
Songs in the Key of Cinema is a bi-weekly look at the use of songs in film and how that music fits within the context of the film as a whole and a place where we’ll cover the moments in cinema that were music to our eyes and ears.
From putting his female pr...
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Top 10 Behind-the-Scenes Sports Movies
It seems like you can't round a corner without running into one movie or another telling the so-inspirational story of some underdog athlete who beats the odds and did a thing really really well. But the world of sport is as much a world of business as it is o...
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Looking Back: “In This Our Life”
Suggested sub-subgenre: Female Melodramas by Macho Auteurs. In Autumn Leaves, Robert Aldrich bulldozed through weepie tropes with so much furious glee that the resulting Joan Crawford vehicle seemed to be unfolding in one of James Whale’s monster houses rather...
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Top 10 Sequels Gone Awry
While it's easy to look at the machinations of the commercially-driven studio system as inherently anti-artist, the truth is, most people just don't want to expend all that much effort to yield a significant return. And so, when coming off the heels of a signi...
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Songs in the Key of Cinema: The Magic in “The Moon Song” Heard in “Her”
Songs in the Key of Cinema is a bi-weekly look at the use of songs in film and how that music fits within the context of the film as a whole and a place where we’ll cover the moments in cinema that were music to our eyes and ears.
The number of films that ...
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Top 10 Christian-Themed Movies
With Son of God and God's Not Dead finding modest purchase at the box office (and considerable fruition in think pieces everywhere) and Darren Aronofsky's Noah ready and waiting to frustrate just about everybody, it would seem that Christians have a harder tim...
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Challenging the Canon: “No Country For Old Men”
As widespread as they are, film adaptations of novels rarely come close to satisfying audiences familiar with the source. The relationship between reader and reading material can possess a covetous quality. Novels spark the imagination of an individual, and wh...
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The Lars von Trier Retrospective
There are very few provocateurs in the film biz these days, and of the ones that do exist, hardly any hold a candle to Lars von Trier's consistently shocking, daring, extraordinary filmography. Originally one of the founders of the Dogme-95 movement of avant-g...
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