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Eleventh Hour, Year Zero: My 10 Favorite Italian Neorealist Movies

May 30, 2023by Paul Boyne 1 Comment

The question of how to define a neorealist film, much on my mind for the first five months of this year, received unexpected clarification just under two weeks ago. For […]

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An Enterprise of Great Pitch and Moment: My 10 Favorite Hamlet Movies

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Probably the main reason that Hamlet has been such a popular subject for cinema from its very beginning — besides representing a grasp for artistic legitimacy in those early days, and […]

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Announcing My 2020 Movie Retrospective: Hamlet on Film

December 7, 2019by Paul Boyne 2 Comments

Shakespearean cinema, like many of the other subjects I’ve approached in my annual film retrospectives, is something in which I’ve long wanted to become more fluent. There are boundless avenues […]

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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 Umbrellas of Cherbourg and La La Land

October 18, 2018by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

Among the current decade’s crop of movie neo-musicals, Damien Chazelle’s La La Land stands apart for tapping into traditions uniquely native to film. That is to say, it’s a song-and-dance extravaganza […]

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Double Feature: Persona and Daisies

July 20, 2018by Paul Boyne 1 Comment

It must be a frightening concept to men—this idea of women having a special bond, of women containing multitudes… Men, spellbound by the secrets shared between women, can’t help but […]

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Both Versions: Goodbye to Language

May 4, 2018by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

For the final entry in my “Both Versions” blog series, I’ll be breaking one of my major rules. For every preceding film, the competing versions were each released theatrically at […]

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Double Feature: The Trial and Alphaville

April 21, 2017by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

Orson Welles and Jean-Luc Godard presented their visions of sclerotic authoritarianism just a few years apart, with the American director entering the final phase of his filmmaking career and the […]

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Double Feature: They’re young. They’re in love. And they kill people.

July 24, 2015by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

The New Hollywood, it was called. Inspired by similar movements in Europe, a new generation of filmmakers took advantage of the faltering studio system to produce personal, vital, politically relevant […]

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The Class of 2015: My Favorite Movies of All Time

June 5, 2015by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

Back in the summer of 2010, I saw my thousandth movie. It had taken more than twenty-two years. At some point in the next couple months, I’ll double that. In […]

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