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How Hollywood Does Politics These Days
If you were watching the Emmys two Sundays ago, you’d be forgiven for thinking you had mistakenly clicked to CNN or MSNBC. It seemed like half the winners were shows about politics. Veep took home a couple of acting awards, Jeff Daniels was a surprise winner f...
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Objectivity in Documentary Film
We are living in the documentary age. Among the many changes in the cinema world brought on by the proliferation of digital technology, it's now easier than ever for filmmakers both aspiring and established to set their sights on a real-life person, issue, or ...
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The Very World You Wished For: On Cinema As Authorial Therapy, Part 3
Here's part 1 and part 2 of cinema as authorial therapy.
Many films that act as self-therapy tend to work on a certain level. Documentaries like Waltz With Bashir are literal therapeutic workings, with the author directly interacting with their own strife. ...
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I Give You My Son: On Cinema As Authorial Therapy, Part 2
It was interesting ending the previous segment with Synecdoche, New York, which ended in the author's creation being led to ruin and despair, because a surprising amount of these authorial therapy films feature apocalypses or apocalyptic imagery to convey the ...
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The Leads of Their Own Stories: On Cinema as Authorial Therapy, Part 1
Christopher Runyon muses on films that work as "authorial therapy" and resonate with the emotional turmoil of their own authors.
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Fanboy Versus Fanboy: The Genius of Edgar Wright
[Note: This article contains spoilers for “The World’s End."]
Edgar Wright’s latest film, The World’s End, arrives on a wave of critical praise centered primarily on how the film’s science fiction elements reflect its characters' struggle with middle age. T...
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The David Lynch Retrospective: ‘Inland Empire’
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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A Personal Connection Between James Gray, Food, Judaism & Me
Since its bow at Cannes in May, countless cinephiles -- myself especially -- have been eagerly awaiting the release of James Gray’s fifth feature film The Immigrant. In an attempt to quell while simultaneously stoking my excitement, I have begun to re-watch Gr...
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Reevaluation: ‘Only God Forgives’ Isn’t A Perfect Film, But Its Dream Is Potent
Nicolas Winding Refn’s latest picture, Only God Forgives, could be referred to as ‘pure style,' in that it's obsessed with its own craft. Mannered and deliberate, Only God Forgives finds Refn wholeheartedly rejecting the docu-style of his early work and instea...
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The David Lynch Retrospective: ‘Mulholland Dr.’
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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