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Tag Archives: Music

Toy Story: “The Boy Is Mine”

April 18, 2020by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

I’m still not entirely sure if editing videos will become a second avocation for me, much less replace this first one. But a few days ago, this idea came to […]

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Film

Double Feature: Only Lovers Left Alive and A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

October 20, 2019by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

Suppose you met a vampire one night. You’d probably have some questions. If the first ones that came to mind pertained to the monster’s taste in music, I have news […]

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Film

Two Poems

September 14, 2019by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

Insert a Stock Sound of Flies Buzzing Into Any Love Scene Wastrel’s Emergency

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Poetry

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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Film

Double Feature: “The Kids Are Losing Their Minds”

April 20, 2018by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

From the beginning, rock music was pitched toward the young. The generational schisms opened early and often, with teenagers eager to assert cultural power like never before. Rock may have […]

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Film

The End of the Beginning: My 10 Favorite BPFW Movies

February 16, 2018by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

Even before I really knew much about movies, I had a strange pride in the ones that came out in my birth year. There was a sense of ownership over […]

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Film, Lists

Baby Paul’s First Weekend: Letterboxd Reviews

January 27, 2018by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

Here’s a reminder that I’ve been writing capsule reviews for my latest movie retrospective over on Letterboxd. Below are five of them, selected for movies that are either distinctive or […]

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Film

A Millennial Looks Back at High Fidelity

December 29, 2017by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

Any seventeen-year period after the release of a film is going to encompass big cultural changes. That’s just how fast the modern world moves. Even so, the film adaptation of […]

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Film

Both Versions: Amadeus

September 15, 2017by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

Evidently there isn’t much of a story behind the return of Amadeus to theaters in 2002 — with, as advertised, twenty minutes of added footage. By then, the world was well into […]

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Film

Double Feature: Purple Rain and 8 Mile

February 17, 2017by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

The later of these two films follows its predecessor’s blueprint so closely that comparisons have been and always will be inevitable. Two powerful and controversial entertainers at the height of […]

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