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<h5 class="date"> Sunday, May 01, 2011 </h5>

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<h1>Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl</h1>
<h3><p>Pearls Before Swine
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<p>An action-adventure movie based on a kids ride at a theme park is hiding a real national treasure.
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<h5 class="date"> Wednesday, January 05, 2011 </h5>

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<h1>Knight and Day vs. Inception</h1>
<h3><p>More Than This
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<p><em>Knight and Day</em> delivers all the profundity that <em>Inception </em>only promises. ;
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<h5 class="date"> Sunday, January 02, 2011 </h5>

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<h1>Donnie Darko</h1>
<h3><p>Explaining the Madness
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<p>A new theory to help the viewer unravel the cult classic.
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<h5 class="date"> Monday, November 22, 2010 </h5>

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<h1>Inception</h1>
<h3><p>Through the Maze
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<p>Meaning is where you make it.
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<h5 class="date"> Wednesday, February 17, 2010 </h5>

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<h1>A Serious Man</h1>
<h3><p>Aerial Act
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<p>There is a God and he is pissed.
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<h5 class="date"> Wednesday, November 11, 2009 </h5>

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<h1>Up</h1>
<h3><p>Film’s New Adventure
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<p>Pixar’s Defense of Animation
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<h5 class="date"> Friday, September 04, 2009 </h5>


<h1>Sympathy for the Devil</h1>
<h3><p>Dorothy Sayers and the American Faust Film
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<p>How a British Detective Novelist Can Help Us Understand an American Film Obsession
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The Maltese Falcon<br/>

Neo&#8217;s Passport<br/>

The Dark Knight<br/>

A Copy of a Copy of a Copy<br/>

The Dreamers<br/>

The Dreamers<br/>

Reading Inland Empire<br/>

The Straight Story<br/>

Ran<br/>

Mean Streets<br/>

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<h3 align="center" class="metaheader">Ten Years of Film Interpretation</h3>
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<h5 class="date"> Friday, February 24, 2012 </h5>

<h3>Let&#8217;s Hope This Isn&#8217;t The Only Way Tree of Life Could Win</h3>
<p>Leaf From <i>Tree of Life</i> Frontrunner for Best Actor Oscar
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<h5 class="date"> Monday, January 23, 2012 </h5>

<h3>I&#8217;ll take my clothes off, and it will be shameless&#8230;</h3>
<p>...Cuz everyone knows, that&#8217;s how you get famous.
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<h5 class="date"> Wednesday, January 18, 2012 </h5>

<h3>The Descendants on the Couch</h3>
<p>... of The Last Psychiatrist<i></i>. ; You may not be a terrible person, but you may be better able to understand why you liked <i>American Beauty</i> and <i>Indecent Proposal</i> so much. ; 
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<h5 class="date"> Thursday, January 12, 2012 </h5>

<h3>Cinemetrics</h3>
<p>This is what movies look like in one vibrating, colorized, sliced and diced symbolic image: ; interesting.
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<h5 class="date"> Tuesday, November 15, 2011 </h5>

<h3>&#8220;Nuked the Fridge&#8221; is the new &#8220;Jumped the Shark&#8221;</h3>
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<h5 class="date"> Tuesday, November 08, 2011 </h5>

<h3>You Can&#8217;t Judge a Book by Its Cover, but You CAN Judge A Movie By Its Poster</h3>
<p>13 Movie poster patterns and what they tell us about the likelihood of what&#8217;s in the film. ; Unless of course, the film has Tilda Swinton&#8230;
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<h5 class="date"> Saturday, October 15, 2011 </h5>

<h3>These are the movies of The Moviegoer</h3>
<p>In order of their appearance in Walker Percy&#8217;s 1961 novel: ; <i>Stage Coach, The Third Man, Panic in the Streets, It Happened One Night, Red River, Holiday, The Oxbow Incident, All Quiet On the Western Front, Fort Dobbs, Dark Waters, The Young Philadelphians</i>. ; And this is the conference celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of its publication. ;
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<h5 class="date"> Monday, October 10, 2011 </h5>

<h3>Hollywood Star Makes Good</h3>
<p>We love a happy ending: ; Cinema, the new cathedral, leads one unique soul back to the original Cathedral.
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<h5 class="date"> Saturday, September 24, 2011 </h5>

<h3>Synecdoche, New York</h3>
<p>Metaphilm fan and filmmaker Cody Clarke has some thoughts on <em>Synecdoche, New York</em> as doing what <em>The Social Network</em> failed to do in exploring the metaphysics of Facebook. Thanks, Cody!
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<h5 class="date"> Friday, September 16, 2011 </h5>

<h3>Truman Burbank, Call Your Office, STAT</h3>
<p>This is indeed &#8221;an unusual occurrence.&#8221;
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Brent Plate Gets Even Closer to the Core of The Tree of Life<br/>

Life Imitates Art Which Imitates Life<br/>

Hell Burns for The Tree of Life<br/>

Slavoj Zizek Goes to See Transformers<br/>

On Wii and the Myth of Boredom<br/>

Overheard on Twitter<br/>

The movie map&#8230;<br/>

The Future According to Film<br/>

Happy 70th Birthday, Citizen Kane<br/>

Is Osama&#8217;s Screen Presence Voldemort?<br/>

Metaphilm&#8217;s 10th Anniversary: May 2001 - May 2011<br/>

If Famous Films Had The Internet<br/>

Inland Empire explained<br/>

Happy 80th Birthday, Neil Postman<br/>

Theodicy and No Country For Old Men<br/>

Fox In Socks, FAST<br/>

600 Million Years Not Enough Preparation for Avatar 2<br/>

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