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The Last Hero in China: My Favorite Yuen Woo-ping Films

March 2, 2022by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

I look back fondly at my Letterboxd review of the late Chor Yuen’s The Lizard (1972), which kicked off my Yuen Woo-ping action retrospective in January. Specifically, I have to […]

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The Class of 2021: My Favorite Movies

June 5, 2021by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

A short story about breath: Having become fully vaccinated against COVID-19 a month ago, I’ve begun taking regular trips to the movie theater again. Few topics are as perennially popular […]

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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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Double Feature: Memento and Irreversible

August 21, 2020by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”–Kierkegaard “He destroyed my ability to live.”–Leonard Shelby, Memento “Paranoiacs need everything explained. Some things can’t be explained.”–Alex, Irreversible […]

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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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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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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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Notes on the Nominees for the 92nd Academy Awards

January 13, 2020by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

Lucy pulls the ball away once again! What’s amazing about the Oscars is that, for movie fans, Lucy can do this twice in the span of a month or two. […]

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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: 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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