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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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“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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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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Double Feature: For Sama and A Diary for Timothy

September 18, 2020by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

The shot lasts only about seventeen seconds, a simple downward tilt. First we see Sama, the young daughter of journalist and filmmaker Waad al-Kateab, being held by her father, Hamza, […]

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Overdue: A City of Sadness

September 4, 2020by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

Here begins a new blog series, in which I pick at a list of movies that I’ve never seen before but really should have by now. The parameters are just […]

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Sullivan’s Travels by Preston Sturges

July 31, 2020by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

A message movie disguised as a frothy comedy when it isn’t a frothy comedy disguised as a message movie, Sullivan’s Travels (1941) is an inside-baseball satire on Hollywood’s self-importance and […]

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Double Feature: The Devil Is a Woman and That Obscure Object of Desire

May 22, 2020by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

In addition to a pair of silent film adaptations and a 1959 Julien Duvivier film starring Brigitte Bardot, the two most notable cinematic takes on the 1898 Pierre Louÿs novel La […]

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Double Feature: The Terminator and RoboCop

March 19, 2020by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

There are several interesting ways of contrasting these two landmark films about cybernetic organisms, or cyborgs. One could play up the dystopian angle, thinking of RoboCop as the Brazil (or […]

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Tracing the Influence of Grand Illusion

February 28, 2020by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

Earlier this month, the Oscars happened, at which, to my great surprise and delight, Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite took home Best Picture in addition to three other awards. It bested eight competitors, […]

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