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The Stories Behind 10 Iconic Movie Scenes
Sixty years ago today, Marilyn Monroe stepped on a subway grate and made movie history. She was shooting a film called The Seven-Year Itch in New York City, and the image of her on the grate, the train...
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Flavorwire Staffers’ Cultural Resolutions for 2015
Though New Years resolutions may be one of our biggest personal myths — and though it makes little sense that with the popping of a champagne bottle which will likely lead to a nauseated New Year’s...
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Staff Picks: Screaming Females, Bolaño, and Ned Beauman
Need a great book to read, album to listen to, or TV show to get hooked on? The Flavorwire team is here to help: in this weekly feature, our editorial staffers recommend the cultural object or...
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5 Noir Classics That Inspired ‘Dark Rooms’ Author Lili Anolik
Dark Rooms, the debut novel by Lili Anolik, is the sort of mystery that you will rip through in a night. Early on, narrator Grace Baker quotes Edgar Allen Poe: “The death of a beautiful woman is,...
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10 Vastly Underrated Sherlock Holmes Movies
In the midst of a very busy week for catalogue releases, Olive Films has unleashed a handsome new Blu-ray edition of the 1988 comedy Without a Clue, a movie that even you Sherlock fans (and there’s a...
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The 10 Worst Workplaces in Movie History
Happy early Labor Day, if you’re stuck working or otherwise not out getting a jump on the holiday weekend — a weekend mostly remembered for its proximity to the end of summer, last chances to get...
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20 Filmmakers on the Art and Habits of Screenwriting
Hollywood’s Happiest Couple: Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett, screening at Film Forum today and Monday, May 16 as part of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Spotlight on Screenwriting...
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The 7 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘Ghost World,’ ‘The Blackcoat’s...
This week’s disc new releases include the likes of Before I Fall and The Shack, and the big new streamer is War Machine, so yeah, time to do some digging. We’ve got a pair of less-beloved titles from...
View ArticleThe 8 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘Blindspotting,’ ‘Crazy Rich...
What we have here is one of the most overwhelming weeks for home viewing in some time: a summer smash, a new Coen Brothers, three of the summer’s best indies, one of the funniest movies ever made, a...
View ArticleThe 6 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘Colette,’ ‘Lizzie’
Female first-name titles are apparently the trend on the new release shelf this week, with Keira Knightley as a famous author and Chloë Sevigny as an infamous murderess. An earlier (and equally savage)...
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