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Tag Archives: Roger Ebert

Patriotism With Both Eyes Open: The Manchurian Candidate

June 30, 2017by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

I hadn’t noticed this the first few times I’d watched the movie, but John Frankenheimer’s The Manchurian Candidate both begins and ends with a discussion about the Medal of Honor. (Technically, […]

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Film

Double Feature: Broken Blossoms and La Strada

March 17, 2017by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

In his “Great Movie” review of D.W. Griffith’s 1919 film, Broken Blossoms, Roger Ebert called attention to a capsule written by Pauline Kael (included in the collection 5001 Nights at the Movies) […]

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Oscar 2015

January 15, 2015by Paul Boyne 2 Comments

We’re back in that somewhat frustrating pocket of time between the Academy Awards nominations announcement and the actual ceremony. Current frontrunners can easily lose steam between now and February 22. […]

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Film

Some Links, Some Thoughts — and a Correction

July 11, 2014by Paul Boyne 1 Comment

No proper blog post this week, but I’ve written in a couple other places and felt like sharing the links. There’s a short review of Spike Jonze’s movie Her on my […]

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Film

My Favorite Movies: Duck Soup

February 28, 2014by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

By now the analogy is irredeemably trite — the kind of comment that elucidates nothing yet sounds astute anyway. But here goes: Duck Soup is the Marx brothers’ Citizen Kane. I don’t […]

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My Most Anticipated 2014 Movies

December 20, 2013by Paul Boyne 1 Comment

Another year has gone by. I’ve done significantly better with my “most anticipated” list for this year than the previous one. As of my writing this, I’ve seen eight out […]

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Film, Lists

Double Feature: Man with a Movie Camera and Russian Ark

August 23, 2013by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

Man with a Movie Camera has an average shot length (ASL) of 2.3 seconds and contains 1,729 individual shots. Russian Ark, by contrast, has an ASL of about 91 minutes and […]

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Film

“There’s no story. It’s just people, gestures, moments…”

August 16, 2013by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

I didn’t write anything on this blog last week, making it the first week in months without a proper blog post from me. The plan had been to write another […]

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Film

Facebook Links #3

August 4, 2013by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

I’ve selected seven of the most interesting online articles I shared to Facebook in April and May of this year. Cited below are excerpts that give a little more information […]

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Reading

Double Feature: Jackie Brown and Out of Sight

June 21, 2013by Paul Boyne 1 Comment

This is almost certainly going to be the most time-consuming double feature I’ll ever propose, but these two films are each a great deal of fun, and the connections between […]

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