Advertisements The Graduate opens with a party. But instead of a joyous celebration, we find a nervous, claustrophobic Ben (Dustin Hoffman), lost in a sea of his parents’ friends. He’s ambushed; hands reach from out of frame to pull and push and…
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Advertisements If you read my Meet the Staff piece, you saw La La Land atop my (arbitrary) list of favorite films. Director Damien Chazelle cites The Umbrellas of Cherbourg as one of the greatest influences on his film, which was how I was exposed to Jacques…
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Advertisements The Disaster Artist hits Amazon Prime this month so I sat down to watch arguably the most critically acclaimed film that I missed last year. Based on the book of the same name, the A24 product chronicles the making of the…
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Advertisements As we approach the one-year anniversary of Daniel Day-Lewis’ retirement announcement, I revisited the film most commonly cited as the pinnacle of his career: director Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood. The 2007 psychological drama is a window into the…
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