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Hamlet on Film: Letterboxd Reviews

January 17, 2020by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

I’ve gotten to know this play pretty well over the last couple weeks, having as of this writing seen sixteen of the twenty-seven renditions I’ve lined up for this retrospective. […]

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Uh … 3 ½? — No Home Movie

June 14, 2019by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

The Introduction Chantal Akerman’s final film, No Home Movie traveled the festival circuit for a year before arriving on the streaming service MUBI in the summer of 2016. By the time […]

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Double Feature: High Noon and Cléo from 5 to 7

May 24, 2019by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

A straight stretch of train tracks extend into oblivion, their iron rumbling with a whispered threat. In the gentle town nearby, two solemn and innocent ceremonies take place at the […]

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Double Feature: The Brave Little Toaster and Toy Story 3

June 22, 2018by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

During his first stint with Disney, John Lasseter pitched an adaptation of the Thomas M. Disch children’s story The Brave Little Toaster. Computer technology was a wide-open frontier in the early […]

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“All He’s Got and All He’s Ever Gonna Have” — Unforgiven

November 30, 2017by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

For feeling sad, Unforgiven is without question one of the most effective of movies. So many of life’s miseries are cataloged here, from loss of life and broken relationships to the […]

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Double Feature: Blowup and Blow Out

July 22, 2016by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

One of the promises of cinema has always been the recording and preservation of objective reality. Even as the world changes and splinters like never before, video evidence is still […]

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Double Feature: My Darling Clementine and Tombstone

June 17, 2016by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

The shootout at the O.K. Corral is one of the defining stories of the American West. Famously lasting only thirty seconds, the altercation ended with three deaths and stamped the […]

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Double Feature: Psycho and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

October 23, 2015by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

[Note: I’m not always careful with spoiler warnings on this blog. The movies I talk about are almost never new, and I proceed from the assumption that anyone interested enough […]

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My Favorite Movies: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

July 25, 2014by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

It might not even make sense to judge these movies individually, as opposed to three parts of a single, very long, movie. So much of the emotional wallop contained in The […]

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Crescendo Into the Infinite

October 11, 2013by Paul Boyne 1 Comment

Can we imagine a more beautiful death than oxygen depletion during a space walk? Floating in absolute peace and utter silence, free to simply gaze at the most beautiful object […]

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