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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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The Class of 2020: My Favorite Movies

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The Distracted Boyfriend meme is nowhere more applicable than in the life of a cinephile. Whatever movie I plan on seeing next, the thought will always occur to me before […]

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An Enterprise of Great Pitch and Moment: My 10 Favorite Hamlet Movies

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Probably the main reason that Hamlet has been such a popular subject for cinema from its very beginning — besides representing a grasp for artistic legitimacy in those early days, and […]

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Hamlet on Film: Letterboxd Reviews

January 17, 2020by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

I’ve gotten to know this play pretty well over the last couple weeks, having as of this writing seen sixteen of the twenty-seven renditions I’ve lined up for this retrospective. […]

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Announcing My 2020 Movie Retrospective: Hamlet on Film

December 7, 2019by Paul Boyne 2 Comments

Shakespearean cinema, like many of the other subjects I’ve approached in my annual film retrospectives, is something in which I’ve long wanted to become more fluent. There are boundless avenues […]

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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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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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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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Double Feature: My Darling Clementine and Tombstone

June 17, 2016by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

The shootout at the O.K. Corral is one of the defining stories of the American West. Famously lasting only thirty seconds, the altercation ended with three deaths and stamped the […]

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My Favorite Movies: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

June 30, 2015by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

One of the most breathtaking things about movies, going back to their earliest days, is their capacity for making the impossible real. Whether this simply means bringing a long-forgotten past […]

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