Cinematography

‘The Big Shave’: Martin Scorsese’s Vision of Death and American Politics Set in a Bathroom

  By Sven Mikulec   In 1967, young Martin Scorsese sent in a script to the Exprmntl festival of Knokke,…

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John Carpenter’s ‘The Thing’: The Story of an SF Horror Game-Changer

The Thing poster art by Christopher Shy   By Sven Mikulec   I mean, the whole point of the monster…

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Sidney Lumet’s ‘Serpico’: One Honest Man’s Struggle Against the System

  By Sven Mikulec   The legend has it, when Al Pacino asked Frank Serpico why he had blown the…

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Charlie Rose: The Treasure Chest of First-Class Film Interviews

The North Carolina-born, now legendary journalist Charlie Rose dabbled with becoming a lawyer, but fortunately for us, he soon developed…

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‘Rear Window’: Hitchcock’s Cinematic Exploration of Voyeurism Disguised as a Top-Notch Thriller

  By Sven Mikulec For all our education and filmwatching experience, we still haven't found a better example of a…

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‘Dressed to Kill’: Brian De Palma’s Razor-Sharp, Dreamlike Erotic Thriller

  By Sven Mikulec With its highly stylized images of violence, exceptional acting performances from Nancy Allen and Michael Caine,…

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‘All the President’s Men’: Following the Money to Become One of the Most Remarkable American Films to Date

  By Sven Mikulec When Robert Redford thought of an idea to make a film about the dogged efforts of…

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‘Obsession’: When De Palma Stepped Out of Hitchcock’s Shadow

Released in the late summer of 1976, more than a year since the end of production due to Columbia Pictures…

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‘The Last Detail’: Hal Ashby and Robert Towne’s Slice of the ’70s America

  By Sven Mikulec It was Robert Towne, one of the greatest script doctors that Hollywood has ever seen, that…

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‘No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos’: The Perfect Insight into the Life and Work of Two Great Cinematographers

Vilmos Zsigmond and László Kovács, the Hungarian cinematographers who left an incredibly deep mark in Hollywood as they helped carve…

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