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‘In Search of Lost Films’ Leaves One Imagining the Possibilities
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‘In Search of Lost Films’ Leaves One Imagining the Possibilities

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PopMatters Staff
/ 15 September 2016
Film critic Phil Hall searches out the stories behind the deletion of films that could be as important as those that were saved.
‘Firewatch’ and the Case of the Much Too Obvious MacGuffin
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‘Firewatch’ and the Case of the Much Too Obvious MacGuffin

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G. Christopher Williams
/ 17 February 2016
In creating a plot device to motivate its characters, a MacGuffin, Firewatch competes against itself, with a story that it is a gimmick and a story that it really wants us to care about.
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‘Reel Terror’ Is Quite the Hatchet Job

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Greg Cwik
/ 19 December 2012
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Movie Toilets: Women and the Politics of Defilement

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Molly Brown
/ 14 August 2012
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Quentin Tarantino’s Cinematic Reality

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David Charpentier
/ 9 August 2011
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Point Omega by Don DeLillo

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Christopher Guerin
/ 14 February 2010
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Hitchcock and Philosophy by David Baggett and William A. Drumin [Editors]

By
PopMatters Staff
/ 21 August 2007

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