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The post ‘I Am Insane, and You Are My Insanity’: Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Terry Gilliam’s Captivating World of ‘12 Monkeys’ appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/12monkeys/feed/ 0 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/rats-in-the-attic-william-friedkins-the-exorcist/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/rats-in-the-attic-william-friedkins-the-exorcist/#respond Fri, 26 Dec 2025 14:01:31 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=33403   By Tim Pelan   Fifty-two years after its powerful debut, and with all the attendant publicity, analysis, and secondhand […]

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The post ‘Catch Me If You Can’: Steven Spielberg’s Underrated Crime Comedy Is a Touching Drama About Identity, (Self-)Deception and Broken Families at Its Core appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/catch-me-if-you-can/feed/ 0 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/barry-lyndon/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/barry-lyndon/#respond Thu, 18 Dec 2025 10:17:46 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=41485   By Tim Pelan   I have had a complete set of Thackeray sitting on my bookshelf at home for […]

The post With ‘Barry Lyndon,’ Stanley Kubrick’s Painterly Eye Invites Us to Be All-seeing, but Ultimately, Unknowing—Revisiting a Masterpiece on Its 50th Anniversary appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/barry-lyndon/feed/ 0 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/heat/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/heat/#respond Mon, 15 Dec 2025 13:38:30 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=42104 Heat poster art by Ignacio RC, https://ignaciorc.com/heat   By Koraljka Suton   A guy told me one time, “Don’t let […]

The post ‘Heat’ at 30: Michael Mann’s Meticulous Masterpiece of Both Style and Substance That Transcends Genre appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/heat/feed/ 0 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/network/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/network/#respond Thu, 27 Nov 2025 16:40:02 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=40498   By Koraljka Suton   Once it opened, everybody kept saying, ‘Oh, what a brilliant satire.’ But Paddy and I […]

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The post ‘Out of the Past’ at 78: The Quintessential Film Noir that Launched Robert Mitchum and Kirk Douglas’ Careers appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/past-quintessential-film-noir-launched-robert-mitchum-kirk-douglas-careers/feed/ 4 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/casino/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/casino/#respond Sat, 22 Nov 2025 17:59:15 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=39761   By Tim Pelan   This story has to be on a big canvas. There’s no sense in my getting […]

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