Documentary

Hal Ashby’s ‘Being There’ is one of the most delightful movies ever created

  By Sven Mikulec In 1979 the great American film director Hal Ashby made one of the most delightful movies…

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“Dazed By Days” By Richard Linklater

Richard Linklater wrote the following article for The Austin Chronicle. The article was originally printed in their issue Volume XIII,…

9 years ago

John Huston’s ‘The Misfits’ stands tall as a pearl of the sixties which isn’t going to fade into public oblivion any time soon

John Huston's The Misfits is a studious, daring vision of American life depicting the same type of protagonists that always…

9 years ago

Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Apocalypse Now’ must be the key lecture in anyone’s filmmaking education

People often exaggerate when they talk about films. They get carried away, leaving the cinema emotionally stirred and too impressed…

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Ingmar Bergman Makes a Movie

The year is 1961 and Ingmar Bergman is making a movie. While planted on the scene as apprentice to Bergman,…

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Regarded as one of David Lean’s best films, the 1965 epic ‘Doctor Zhivago’ is a champion of accomplished filmmaking

Regarded as one of David Lean’s best films, the 1965 epic romance Doctor Zhivago is a champion of accomplished filmmaking.…

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Preminger’s ‘Laura’ has endured through the years as one of the most beloved and talked about film noir classics in cinema history

  By Sven Mikulec It’s a crying shame Otto Preminger never received the adequate recognition from the Academy. The Austria-Hungarian…

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Andrei Tarkovsky: The essential documentaries on the Russian Master

  Everyone’s immortal. Everything is too. —Andrei Tarkovsky (4 April 1932 – 29 December 1986)   Charles M, a fantastic…

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Orson Welles’ ‘The Lady from Shanghai’ is as captivating as it’s masterfully crafted

Directed, produced and written by Orson Welles, The Lady from Shanghai is a complicated, puzzling and engaging little masterpiece from…

9 years ago

The day an X-rated walk on the dark side called ‘Midnight Cowboy’ won the Oscar for best picture, a new generation came to power in Hollywood

John Schlesinger's 1969 classic Midnight Cowboy is one of those films that linger around our minds, that we get a sentimental…

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