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Noah Baumbach and the Comedy Sophisticates
Noah Baumbach is the third genius of the comedy sophisticates, the other two: Woody Allen and Whit Stillman. These three filmmakers are the prime users of the dialogue inteligencia, where their...
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The Room: Why The “Citizen Kane Of Bad Movies” Is Actually Great Cinema
The last Friday of every month in a small independent theater, a screening of a ten-year-old film is shown. Once a month, twelve times a year, Tommy Wiseau’s The Room is shown in a dusty cinema with...
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The Most Important Film of All Time
What is the most important film ever made? Not the best film ever made, that is an argument for another time, another place, and another bottle of wine, but the most important. The film that had the...
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Empire, Cynicism, and Spider-Man
Andy Warhol’s 1964 film Empire is an 8 ½ hour film consisting of a continuous take of The Empire State Building. During the run time, not much happens: sun sets, lights flicker, movie ends. If you’ve...
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