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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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Double Feature: On Falling in Love with Ghosts

August 24, 2019by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

Most notably in film noir, but also detectable in drama and fantasy, Hollywood films immediately after World War II often circled around moods of despair and loss. The war had […]

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Double Feature: Orson Welles, Marilyn Monroe…and…Me?

July 19, 2019by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

It’s almost immaterial that one of these films is derived from a novel and the other from a memoir. An experiment: Watch Me and Orson Welles and My Week with Marilyn back-to-back […]

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Keeping Pace: Editing in Chariots of Fire

May 31, 2019by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

To single out the editing in the film Chariots of Fire is, of course, to fly past the two or three most famous and memorable aspects of it. That’s not to […]

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Uh … 3 ½? — Selma

December 13, 2018by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

The Introduction I first saw Ava DuVernay’s Selma in those pre-MoviePass days when going to a theater by myself was a rare occurrence. This was the weekend after the Oscar nominations […]

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The Biopic Performance Conundrum: Capote

November 29, 2018by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

On the one hand, the impersonation of a historical figure is the most attention-grabbing and prestigious job any movie actor can undertake. Trying to fit into a well-known persona will […]

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Double Feature: With Barton Fink In a Lonely Place

November 23, 2018by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

Welcome to Hollywood: where art goes to die, or so the story goes. Of all cinematic craftspeople, the writer is typically the most prone to cynicism, because the average screenwriter […]

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“I just made the name up to give him some personality” — L.A. Confidential

May 25, 2018by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

I always loved their names. To me, they matched each character and the actor playing him to perfection — maybe too well. This may have been a case in which the […]

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The Fantasy Biopic: Shakespeare in Love

March 30, 2018by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

Eagle-eyed observer that I am, it only took two major clues for me to make the connection between Shakespeare in Love and Amadeus. First is the presence of Simon Callow, which is […]

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Double Feature: Brief Encounter and Carol

March 23, 2018by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

Director Todd Haynes has acknowledged in interviews that the inspiration for the framing device in Carol came from David Lean’s Brief Encounter. In each case, the in medias res opening leads directly to […]

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