Cinematography

John Toll: ‘There’s No Difference Between Feature Films and TV Shows—It’s All Filmmaking to Me’

  By Sven Mikulec Having debuted as director of photography on Malcolm Leo’s documentary film The Beach Boys: An American…

6 years ago

‘The Last of the Mohicans’: Michael Mann’s Riveting Love Story as the Formation of American Identity

  By Sven Mikulec   After a string of successes on television, having made a name for himself on projects…

6 years ago

Warren Beatty’s ‘Reds’: ‘A Long, Long Movie About a Communist Who Died’

  By Tim Pelan After the success of 1979's Heaven Can Wait (nine Oscar noms and co-directed by Warren Beatty…

7 years ago

‘Thief’ at 40: How Michael Mann’s Cinema Debut Stole the World’s Attention

    I started the film at 175 pounds and dropped to 150. We worked eighteen-hour days. This director, Michael…

7 years ago

‘The Train’: John Frankenheimer’s Monumental Tribute to Wartime Railway Resistance

  By Tim Pelan   There’s a probably apocryphal quote attributed to Winston Churchill in WWII, in which the man…

7 years ago

‘Unforgiven’: Clint Eastwood’s Eulogy for the Man with No Name in His Anti-Western Masterpiece

  By Sven Mikulec   Two years after Kevin Costner's Dances With Wolves became only the second Western ever to…

7 years ago

‘Touch of Evil’: Orson Welles’ Grandiose Film Noir that Took Four Decades to Shine In Its Intended Form

  By Sven Mikulec   When Universal approached Orson Welles with an intriguing supporting role in a new thriller tentatively…

7 years ago

‘Catch-22′: Mike Nichols’ Underappreciated Classic Adaptation of One of the Best Antiwar Novels of All Time

  By Sven Mikulec It had all the ingredients of an instant hit and future classic. At the helm, one…

7 years ago

Terrence Malick’s ‘The Thin Red Line’: The Traumatic and Poetic Journey into the Heart of Man

  By Sven Mikulec Twenty years have passed between Days of Heaven, Terrence Malick’s second feature film, and The Thin…

7 years ago

‘Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia’: The Story of the Great Sam Peckinpah’s Most Personal Film

  By Sven Mikulec   Before Warner Bros. decided to take a chance and hire him to make The Wild…

7 years ago