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The 50 Best Movie Screenplays of All Time

What makes a brilliant script? Is it quotable lines? Is it nuanced dialogue? Or is it just the ability to move the story along and not get in the way? When looking back through the history of screenwriting, there are plenty of iconic films based on previous work; the Writer’s Guild of America voted Casablanca …

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Robin Spry films (and dries up) the streets

Beating Schrader’s Hardcore to the punch by a matter of months, Robin Spry’s grim and gritty gutter-level drama is driven by a not-dissimilar premise, that of a man searching the seedy urban underbelly for his drug-addicted prostitute daughter. Rather astonishing that it was made for TV – the remarkably bleak opening indicates that no punches …

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New on Video: ‘Tokyo Story’ arrives on an exquisite Blu-ray via Criterion

December 12 marks 110 years since the birth of the great Japanese master Yasujiro Ozu (and 50 years to the date since his death). So what better way to commemorate the occasion than to revisit what is widely seen as his masterpiece among masterpieces, Tokyo Story, out now on a 3-disc dual format Blu-ray/DVD from The Criterion Collection?

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‘The Canyons’ is a lurid black hole of nothingness that somehow works

The Canyons Directed by Paul Schrader Written by Bret Easton Ellis USA, 2013 Director Paul Schrader and writer Bret Easton Ellis’ The Canyons is a lurid black hole of nothingness. Nothing people. Nothing places. Nothing futures. The film opens with varying shots of broken down and decrepit movie theaters, suggesting a permanent modern lapse in our ability …

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