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Inside Jonathan Glazer
by Tim Grierson and Glenn Heath Jr.
Tim is a film and music critic whose writing has appeared in Screen International, Paste, Playboy, L.A. Weekly, The Village Voice, Vulture and Deadspin. He is the author of four books, including FilmCraft: Screenwriting, a ...
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Surprise: Movies as Games and Puzzles
Marilyn Ferdinand is the founder of Ferdy on Films, a blog that has been providing in-depth reviews and analysis since 2005. She is also the co-founder of For the Love of Film: The Film Preservation Blogathon and she has contributed to Humanities magazine, Fan...
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Claire Denis
by Darren Hughes and Michael Leary
Darren is a communications professional and freelance writer in Knoxville, TN. He’s a longtime contributor toSenses of Cinemaand MUBI’s Notebook and blogs on occassion at longpauses.com. Michael is co-editor ofFilmwell and h...
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Mezzanine Essentials: “Peeping Tom”
The story of how Peeping Tom effectively killed Michael Powell’s career in the U.K. is well known, but perhaps Powell was actually trying to slay cinema itself? The film was trashed by British critics upon its release in 1960, resuscitated by the American New ...
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Going Glib: On Alex Gibney’s Fleet, Tactless Scientology Exposé
The Church of Scientology is famously thin-skinned as institutions go, but you can’t really fault them for wanting to take a collective hit out on Alex Gibney’s Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief. If the film isn’t quite the polemic its title su...
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The Gospel According to Cinema, Part 2: The Rise of Christian Film
Having proven themselves adept at selling Christian films to a paying audience, film producers like the Christian-based Pure Flix now find themselves at a crossroads. While the films have done well financially, they’re hardly mainstream. It’s not that Christia...
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The Gospel According to Cinema, Part 1: The Rise of Christian Film
Last weekend, the Pure Flix-produced, inspirational drama Do You Believe? opened in theaters, and if you’re a regular moviegoer, chances are you didn’t see it. You might not have even heard of it. As its title suggests, Do You Believe? is about religion. More ...
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All That Glitters Isn’t Gold: The 25th Anniversary of “Pretty Woman”
Vivian Ward is the one Disney princess you won’t find roaming the grounds of the Magic Kingdom or Epcot; the prince with whom she rode off into the sunset saved her from a life of servitude far more salacious than anything her fellow princesses endured. Ward i...
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