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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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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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Announcing My 2023 Movie Retrospective: Italian Neorealism

December 4, 2022by Paul Boyne 1 Comment

The more I’ve read about the movement — or oeuvre — or feeling, labeled “Italian neorealism,” particularly in recent months, the less of a grasp I feel I have on […]

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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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Announcing My 2022 Movie Retrospective: The Fight Choreography of Yuen Woo-ping

December 22, 2021by Paul Boyne 2 Comments

A central figure in the history of Hong Kong action films, Yuen Woo-ping has enjoyed a fifty-year career putting together some of the most enthusiastically kinetic cinema in existence. Carrying […]

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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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“We’ll Take a Cup of Kindness Yet” — My 10 Favorite Capra Movies

April 7, 2021by Paul Boyne 1 Comment

There’s no denying that the year 2020 was a fallow period for my blogging efforts. A set of new routines brought on by both personal and global events made it […]

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My Most Anticipated 2021 Movies

December 29, 2020by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

A lot can change in a year, I believe it’s safe to say. At this point last December, I was thinking about the end of a decade of movies, in […]

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Announcing My 2021 Movie Retrospective: The Films of Frank Capra

December 4, 2020by Paul Boyne 2 Comments

The director of my current choice for “favorite movie of all time” was a paradigmatic American success story: a Sicilian immigrant who rose through the ranks of a booming industry […]

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