7 years ago
Features (10 posts found)
With a Little Help from Our Friends
With A Little Help From Our Friends is dedicated to highlighting the best pieces of writing on film published around the Internet. Now, for your reading pleasure ….
For your reading enjoyment …
Check out Jim Gabriel’s thoughts on Zero Dark Thirty. Beyond the...
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The Darren Aronofsky Retrospective: ‘The Fountain’
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 ...
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Short Stuff: Artistry Affirmed in Isabel Peppard’s Gothic Fairy Tale ‘Butterflies’
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’re launching Short Stuff, a weekly profile on a promising shor...
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Reverse Pop Culture Primer: Scream vs. Boy Meets World
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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Shelf Life: Trash
Shelf Life is a weekly feature that selects a film currently on DVD/Blu-Ray for review.
Paul Morrissey’s Trash begins with a failed blowjob and ends with the offer of another. In-between, its use of verité camera techniques, harshly recorded direct sound (a...
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The Penny-Pinching Cinephile (1/23/13–1/29/13)
Welcome to The Penny-Pinching Cinephile, a weekly spotlight of the best free flicks on the web. ‘Cuz sometimes you gotta eat.
1) The Scarlet Empress (Josef von Sternberg, 1934)
Great minds really do think alike, as our own Andreas Stoehr picked The Scarl...
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This Week in the Death of Cinema: Damn Your Ironic Detachment!
Sometimes it feels like there’s a new article every week decrying the death of cinema. I thought about that and decided, “why not make that feeling true?” So here it is, a weekly column chronicling the slow demise of the art form we love so much.
A few mont...
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Honesty in Documentary
We need to have a conversation about documentaries. The form has been around since the earliest days of cinema, but recent years have seen a golden age not only in the way documentaries have experimented in storytelling but in their widespread acceptance withi...
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Movie Mettle: 5 Unrealistic Movie Musical Numbers 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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Something Old, Something New: The End of Evangelion / It’s Such a Beautiful Day
Something Old, Something New is a weekly feature that creates a double feature with a film released in the last few years and an older movie. These films contain aesthetic, narrative and/or thematic parallels that can erase decades of separation and show how i...
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