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Tag Archives: Citizen Kane

My 25 Favorite Montages & Cross-cutting Sequences

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What’s the opposite of a long take? The first four top 25 lists I put together for this blog were matching pairs: scariest scenes and funniest scenes, endings and beginnings. […]

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Film, Lists

Double Feature: The Killers and The Killers

November 19, 2016by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

Ernest Hemingway’s short story The Killers is an enticing but perplexing candidate for a feature film adaptation. It’s as spare a narrative as you’ll ever see, a simple chronicle of waiting. […]

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Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before: There Was a Scorpion and a Frog…

September 9, 2016by Paul Boyne 1 Comment

The coolest thing I’ve learned this year to date comes from One-Man Band, the third volume of Simon Callow’s definitive Orson Welles biography. I finished reading it back in June, but […]

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Film, Reading

My Favorite Movies: Citizen Kane

August 29, 2014by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

“Everything you hate.” There are so many avenues for writing about this film that it’s easy to become paralyzed trying to choose one. Its reputation precedes it, to put things […]

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Film

My Favorite Movies: Duck Soup

February 28, 2014by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

By now the analogy is irredeemably trite — the kind of comment that elucidates nothing yet sounds astute anyway. But here goes: Duck Soup is the Marx brothers’ Citizen Kane. I don’t […]

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Film

Facebook Links #3

August 4, 2013by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

I’ve selected seven of the most interesting online articles I shared to Facebook in April and May of this year. Cited below are excerpts that give a little more information […]

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Double Feature: Macbeth and Plan 9 from Outer Space

July 19, 2013by Paul Boyne 1 Comment

The man who made “the greatest movie of all time” — Orson Welles — and the man who made “the worst movie of all time” — Ed Wood — had […]

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Film

Marcel Proust Meets Charlie Kane

February 8, 2013by Paul Boyne 3 Comments

I’ve committed to reading all the way through Marcel Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time) this year. As of my writing this, I’m about […]

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Film, Reading

Sight & Sound’s Greatest Films Poll, 2012: Vertigo Ascendant

August 2, 2012by Paul Boyne 3 Comments

Sight & Sound, Britain’s prestigious film magazine, oversees this most prestigious of film lists every ten years. Polling “critics, programmers, academics, distributors, writers and other cinephiles” from all over the […]

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Film, Lists

There Is No Greatest Movie of All Time

September 21, 2011by Paul Boyne 6 Comments

The shimmering, glowing stars in the cinema firmament have aligned of late, with plenty of high-profile Blu-ray releases in the last month. Among the most significant are those pictured above: […]

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