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Remake/Remodel: Infernal Affairs vs. The Departed
Martin Scorsese has taken a lot of guff (from me, in my mind, every time I’ve sat through any of his last 10 or so films in theaters) for having fallen off the pedestal
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Criminally Underrated: Bringing Out the Dead
Martin Scorsese’s Bringing Out the Dead was not a film that received an overwhelmingly negative reception by critics on release, though reviews were mixed and it is generally considered a lesser effort from the
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Re-Make/Re-Model: Cape Fear (1962) vs. Cape Fear (1991)
Remakes have been around nearly as long as Hollywood itself, and not always for the reasons or with the results you’d think. Spectrum Culture’s new feature Re-Make/Re-Model will examine the long history of cinematic
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Revisit: The Last Temptation of Christ
Revisit is a series of reviews highlighting past releases that now deserve a second look. It is almost impossible to talk about or think about Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ without stigmatizing
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Five Years Later: The Best Films of 2006!!
Five years is an eternity in the life of a film. When coming up with this feature, the question the Spectrum Culture staff pondered was this: “How well do these movies play NOW!” Not
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Hugo
Delmore Schwartz’s short story “In Dreams Begin Responsibilities” depicts a young man’s dream of entering a movie theater, sitting down to watch the film and realizing that he’s seeing footage of his parents’ courtship.
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Film Dunce: Goodfellas
Film Dunce is a weekly series in which one of our writers finally succumbs to the lure of a movie that has long been a big part of our culture that they have never
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Best Living Directors: Martin Scorsese
We at Spectrum Culture strive to bring you only the best. Ten auteurs at the forefront of the world stage: these are the Best Living Directors. The detail from Martin Scorsese’s biography that seems
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Revisit: Mean Streets
Revisit: Mean Streets Dir: Martin Scorsese 1973 Revisit is a series of reviews highlighting past releases that now deserve a second look. Holy shit: In the span of Mean Streets’ opening 15 minutes, you
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Film Dunce: Raging Bull
Film Dunce is a weekly series in which one of our writers finally succumbs to the lure of a movie that has long been a big part of our culture that they have never
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