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Features (10 posts found)
Tweets of the Week: Second Edition
Twitter has been known to many as a home of shouted opinions, controversial stances, endless thinkpiece links, moralizing/counter-moralizing, and complaints about the problems that Twitter creates. Sift through the noise, however, and one can still find enough...
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Looking Back: “So Dark the Night”
Like Edgar G. Ulmer or Roger Corman, Joseph H. Lewis is the kind of director devoted cinephiles like to discover. Routinely saddled with shoestring budgets and week-long schedules, these Poverty Row auteurs dealt with their slapdash screenplays and inept casts...
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The Studio Ghibli Retrospective: “The Cat Returns”
Hiroyuki Morita's The Cat Returns is the second film from Studio Ghibli to not be directed by company co-founders Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata. It is also, for my money, the weakest film to come out of Studio Ghibli that I've seen (though keep in mind that...
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Top 10 Snow Movies
While I've been fortunate enough to avoid the Polar Vortex here in sunny Los Angeles, much of the rest of the country has been trapped in varying levels of snow, all the while keeping their eyes on an Olympic games that had deliver the required frost manually....
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Tweets of the Week: First Edition
Twitter has been known to many as a home of shouted opinions, controversial stances, endless thinkpiece links, moralizing/counter-moralizing, and complaints about the problems that Twitter creates. Sift through the noise, however, and one can still find enough...
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The Studio Ghibli Retrospective: ‘Spirited Away’
Nothing sad happens in the opening fifteen minutes of Hayao Miyazaki's eighth feature film Spirited Away. Nothing really even happens until the very end of the opening, where a traumatic event occurs to our protagonist that will change her life forever, but it...
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How We Fell In Love With the Movies
'Tis the day of love, this February 14th, and thus we'll all be focusing on the loves that make our lives worth while, whether they exist or not. But no matter how many times your heart is broken by another person, you could at least always count on great movi...
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Top 10 Romantic Fantasy Films
As anyone who has watched nearly any animated Disney film knows, romance and fantasy fit splendidly together. The dizzying rapture of love manifests physically in elements that are very much not of this world. It becomes at once familiar and strange, frighteni...
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Looking Back: “The Round-Up”
A contemporary of Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni, the late, prolific Hungarian auteur Miklós Jancsó (1921-2014) could (at his best) match those art-house doyens in rigorous technique and modernist inquiry. In a career that spanned six decades and en...
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The Studio Ghibli Retrospective: ‘My Neighbors the Yamadas’
A family distilled
In ink and paper
We all rise to the clouds
Joined in laughter
Forever
~Dumb Haiku by Christopher Runyon
A haiku, as most readers hopefully know, is a Japanese poem meant to lyrically juxtapose two images or ideas with just a few lines ...
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