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The Class of 2023: My Favorite Movies

June 2, 2023by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

I kicked off this “academic year” (the period of time since my last update to the tally of my favorite films) with a literally once-in-a-lifetime movie-watching experience. Thai slow cinema […]

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The Class of 2022: My Favorite Movies

June 3, 2022by Paul Boyne 1 Comment

It occurs to me that, in the ten years that I’ve been sharing updates to my list of favorite movies on here, I’ve never really explained why I do it […]

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The Last Hero in China: My Favorite Yuen Woo-ping Films

March 2, 2022by Paul Boyne 1 Comment

I look back fondly at my Letterboxd review of the late Chor Yuen’s The Lizard (1972), which kicked off my Yuen Woo-ping action retrospective in January. Specifically, I have to […]

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The Class of 2021: My Favorite Movies

June 5, 2021by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

A short story about breath: Having become fully vaccinated against COVID-19 a month ago, I’ve begun taking regular trips to the movie theater again. Few topics are as perennially popular […]

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The Felliniesque Century

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Consistently regarded as one of the world’s very greatest filmmakers, Federico Fellini is a daunting subject. Developing a bombastic and playful style, he is one of the few who can […]

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The Class of 2020: My Favorite Movies

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The Distracted Boyfriend meme is nowhere more applicable than in the life of a cinephile. Whatever movie I plan on seeing next, the thought will always occur to me before […]

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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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The Class of 2019: My Favorite Movies

June 7, 2019by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

“How does he do it?” asked no one. According to my painstaking records, I’ve maintained roughly the same pace in watching movies that were new to me during the last […]

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The Class of 2018: My Favorite Movies

June 1, 2018by Paul Boyne 1 Comment

I’ve watched movies every which way during these past twelve months, giving more time to them than I had in any previous year. There were the usual methods — discs […]

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My 25 Favorite Long Takes

May 11, 2018by Paul Boyne 1 Comment

As quoted by Peter Bogdanovich, Orson Welles once said, “A long-playing full shot is what always separates the men from the boys.” In other words, the film director who can […]

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