Dan Mecca
Co-Founder and Managing Editor at The Film Stage
Co-Founder of @thefilmstage, Co-Host of @tfsbside, stories at @fathomstories & filmmaker.
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1 week ago |
thefilmstage.com | Dan Mecca
Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie directors! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. Today we discuss Mike Leigh, one of our greatest living filmmakers. Born in England in 1943, Leigh remains an artist for the everyday person more than most. And this descriptor is quite reductive, as the writer/director’s aesthetic is deceivingly simple and incredibly effective.
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3 weeks ago |
thefilmstage.com | Dan Mecca
Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. Today we return to one of our earlier subjects: Ryan Gosling! Our B-Sides are The Ides of March, Gangster Squad, Only God Forgives, and First Man.
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4 weeks ago |
thefilmstage.com | Dan Mecca
Halfway through Imago, an engaging documentary from Déni Oumar Pitsaev, the director has a conversation with his mother about the piece of property she bought for him in Pankisi (a valley in Georgia near the Chechnya border). When he asks why she purchased it, she responds: “…so you don’t get lost, with no homeland… everyone needs a homeland.” This idea of “home” seeps through every frame of the film. In 1996, as the First Chechen War raged on, young Déni fled with his mother to Russia.
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1 month ago |
letterboxd.com | Dan Mecca |Ella Kemp |Alex Kurtzman |Roberto Orci
The set pieces in the Mission: Impossible series are already the stuff of legend, and the franchise isn’t even finished yet (though this latest film may be it). Name a Mission: Impossible movie, and another fan could identify it with the stunt: “Oh, that’s the one where he hangs on the side of the plane.” That’s cinematic staying power. As the films have gone on, the scope and scale of each sequence has grown to match the expectation of an eager fan base.
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1 month ago |
thefilmstage.com | Dan Mecca
Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. Today we discuss Clint Eastwood, the director and the movie star. Our B-Sides are Breezy, White Hunter Black Heart, Blood Work, Flags of Our Fathers, and The Mule. Our guest is the impeccable Mitchell Beaupre, Senior Editor at Letterboxd.
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