A Carpenter of Death and His Four Horsemen: Samuel Fuller’s ‘The Big Red One’
By Tim Pelan In Hollywood, personal films can often become bloated vanity projects. With Samuel Fuller’s semi-autobiographical WWII memoir,…
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We Blew It? Douglas Trumbull’s ‘Silent Running’ Took the Counter-Culture Legacy of ‘Easy Rider’ As a Paean to the Planet
By Tim Pelan On this first day of a new century we humbly beg forgiveness and dedicate these last…
How John Schlesinger’s Homeless and Lonesome ‘Midnight Cowboy’ Rode His Way to the Top and Became the First and Only X-rated Movie to Win a Best Picture Oscar
By Koraljka Suton A friend of mine, an American painter living in London, had read the book and suggested…
Rev, Rev, Against the Dying of the Light: The Fading Feudal Code of John Frankenheimer’s ‘Ronin’
By Tim Pelan I’ve made a lot of mistakes in my life, burned a lot of bridges, and reached…
Play for Play: How The Color of Money’s ‘One For Them’ Assignment Reignited Martin Scorsese’s Hunger for the Work
By Tim Pelan After ‘The Last Temptation’ was cancelled in ’83, I had to get myself back in shape….
Fixed Images of Eternity: Time, Perception, & Grief in ‘Don’t Look Now’
By Jasun Horsley The speaker is Death: There was a merchant in Bagdad who sent his servant to market…
How Francis Ford Coppola Breathed New Life into ‘Bram Stoker’s Dracula’
By Koraljka Suton It could be deemed rather poetic that the origins of two of the most iconic and…
Reclaiming the Lost Art of Melodrama in Sidney Lumet’s Unsung Masterpiece: ‘Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead’
By Parrish Stikeleather I sent the script first to Philip, one of the finest actors in the country, and…
“We Translate Every Experience into the Same Old Codes”: In Michelangelo Antonioni’s ‘The Passenger,’ Jack Nicholson Attempts a Transference of Self
By Tim Pelan Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1975 film The Passenger is a languid thriller in which not much seems to…
‘The Past, Present and Future of Humanity’: John Boorman’s ‘Excalibur’
By Tim Pelan John Boorman’s 1981 fantastical retelling of Thomas Mallory’s Le Morte d’Arthur is, to quote Nicol Williamson’s…