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Features (10 posts found)
The Needle Drop: Soaring and Serene “Chaiyya Chaiyya” in Dil Se and Spike Lee’s Inside Man
It's the rare song that can be specifically written for one movie, in which context it becomes iconic, and then re-appropriated in completely different context and work equally as well. One such song is “Chaiyya Chaiyya,” (a rough English translation of which ...
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With a Little Help from Our Friends
Every Monday With A Little Help From Our Friends is dedicated to highlighting the best pieces of writing on film and television published around the Internet.
For your reading enjoyment …
Lets begin with the best article you'll read this week: Karina Longwo...
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Short Stuff: Time Goes Spinning By in Damien O’Connor’s Wistful Animation After You
In a world of features, short films rarely get much attention. Yet the best five-minute shorts usually contain more originality and creativity than your average Hollywood blockbuster. That’s why we launched Short Stuff, a weekly profile on a promising short-fo...
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Reverse Pop Culture Primer: The Usual Suspects vs. Every Reference To Keyser Söze Ever
Welcome to Reverse Pop Culture Primer! Every week I take a famous catchphrase, punchline, or spoiler that I learned from another part of pop culture without ever seeing the movie it references. How does knowing the joke backwards affect my experience of the mo...
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The Darren Aronofsky Retrospective: ‘The Wrestler’
The Movie Mezzanine Filmmaker Retrospective series takes on an entire body of work–be it director’s, screenwriter’s, or otherwise–and analyzes each portion of the filmography. By the final post of a retrospective, there will be a better understanding of the fi...
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Battle of Directors: Richard Linkater vs. Steven Soderbergh
Battle of Directors is a weekly column that pits two filmmakers against one another, sheds light on their respective filmographies, and then asks readers to state which director they prefer. Thoughtful discourse and discussion is encouraged and desired. Enjoy!...
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Movie Mettle: 5 Food and Sex Scenes To Test Your Limits
Movie Mettle is a weekly column for moviegoers with weak constitutions. Wish you had the balls to sit through the goriest of horror movies? Want to build up your resistance to weepy rom-coms? Each week we’ll give you a range of five movies that will test your ...
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Palette Cleansers: Canyon Passage
Color is one of the most evocative and immediately arresting aspects of film composition. Its use can be psychological, emotional, fantastical, realistic, or anything else filmmakers wants it to be. Every week, Palette Cleansers spotlights a film whose use of ...
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Classy Movies for Classy People: Shakespeare Edition
Welcome to Classy Movies for Classy People. You are reading this, so we shall assume you are a classy sort. Why else would you click on an article specifically labeled for “Classy People?” If you are not classy, I please ask you to leave. We’ll have no lowlife...
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The Needle Drop: ‘Mean Streets’ and “Mickey’s Monkey”
The Needle Drop examines the relationship between a film and its soundtrack, how a song or score cue can set or upend the tone of a shot, a character, the movie itself.
In a film as full of moments between the interaction between music and image as Mean Str...
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