Shifting aspect ratios during a movie has become all the rage nowadays.
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Author: Steven Strauss
Mary Me
“I’ve never known a miracle not born through pain.”
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Not Wrecked Yet
Does anyone else remember Anne Washburn’s Shipwreck?
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Shorted
A movie’s individual “awards” page on IMDB is an invaluable record of the contemporaneous reception.
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Bottoming
~~ double perv alert ~~
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Upstaged
Where is the orchestra located in a Broadway theater?
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MUSICals
Can you name a single non-IP musical that has ever turned a profit without a BELOVED score?
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Something More
Mary Jane could appear deceptively simple.
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Screen as Intermediary
David Lynch is the most over-cited comparison in cinema.
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No Place Like Home
Here’s another doubling involving Days of Wine and Roses’ angular-roof set:
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