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Don Hertzfeldt: Beauty and Sadness in Bite-Sized Portions
Alissa Wilkinson has written about pop culture, politics, and religion all over the Internet. She is chief film critic at Christianity Today and assistant professor of English and humanities at The King's College in New York City. Based in Brooklyn, her work h...
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Birth of the Uncool: The Mind and Movies of Cameron Crowe
Cameron Crowe is a romantic. Since 1989, he’s made eight features as writer and director, and they’re all broadly similar, featuring sensitive white men in search for identity in a world that, to them, has temporarily lost meaning. But there’s more to Crowe’s ...
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Round 2: The Marvel-Industrial Complex
When I wrote "The Marvel-Industrial Complex" at the invitation of Movie Mezzanine a few weeks ago, it was just supposed to be a thinkpiece with some actual thought behind it, as well as a way of talking about some of the more disquieting corporate and cultural...
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Mezzanine Essentials: “Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams”
Like the magic lantern that evokes childhood’s fascination with moving images in the films of Ingmar Bergman, the whole of Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams seems to take us back to the medium’s infancy, to its primal pleasures and terrors. It is a film in which the sho...
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The 19 Best Actors-Turned-Directors
There's no single path that leads to directing a film--some dive right behind the camera as their first job, others work up to it after years of toiling as assistant directors, and then others get the gig because of their work in front of the camera coupled wi...
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Homesick for the Past: On the Modern Film Critic
The unrepentant dandy of a critic Addison DeWitt (George Sanders) in All About Eve (1950) wields his influence like the magic of a Faustian Satan, manipulating stars and playwrights with nothing but the threat of a review. Yet he stands from society, distanced...
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The Marvel-Industrial Complex
"Pity the land without heroes!"
"No, pity the land that needs them." —Bertolt Brecht, Galileo
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As inconceivable as it seems, 2008's Iron Man was, at the time, a mortgage-the-farm gamble for Marvel Comics, who was tired of watching film studios like Fox (Th...
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30 Years of Road-Tripping: “Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird”
My partner in crime, Steven Boone, recently met Luis from Sesame Street on the MTA subway. Since MTA trains are denoted by a letter or a number, Sesame Street was literally brought to Boone by one of the items that has “sponsored” the show since 1969. Luis to...
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Being in Time: Aging Onscreen
Anders Bergstrom is a PhD candidate in the Department of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, in Waterloo, ON. In 2011 he contributed an introduction to the second volume of Faith and Spirituality in Masters of World Cinema. In 2013, his ess...
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The Summer of Love: A Movie Preview
For many people, summer means beaches and fireworks and camping and other outdoorsy activities. For cinephiles, it means loving blockbusters, disparaging blockbusters, or some combination of both (hopefully in addition to the aforementioned activities -- live ...
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