Documentary

‘Big John’: A 75-Minute Precious Exploration of John Carpenter’s Life, Work and Ways

  By Sven Mikulec “In France, I'm an auteur; in Germany, a filmmaker; in Britain, a genre film director; and…

3 years ago

How ‘Once Upon a Time in America’ Became Sergio Leone’s Butchered Swan Song

  By Koraljka Suton   I am not fascinated, as you say, by the myth of the West, or by…

3 years ago

Rats In the Attic: William Friedkin’s ‘The Exorcist’

  By Tim Pelan   Forty-five years after its powerful debut, and with all the attendant publicity, analysis and second-hand…

3 years ago

‘Mise-en-Scène’ and Fritz Lang: The Invaluable, Short-Lived Magazine’s Article on the Master of Darkness

  By Sven Mikulec   In 1979, Case Western Reserve University Film Society started publishing a magazine called Mise-en-Scéne, a…

3 years ago

The immortal ‘Casablanca’: Why the Old Hollywood’s Everlasting Masterpiece Is Still Beloved

  By Sven Mikulec   There is only a spoonful of movies that enjoy such a reputation as Casablanca, the…

3 years ago

‘Sunset Boulevard’: Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett’s Sobering Exposure of the Dark Side of Hollywood

  By Sven Mikulec   You will not find in my pictures any phony camera moves or fancy setups to…

3 years ago

‘Blow-Up’: The Importance and Influence of Michelangelo Antonioni’s Stylish, Thought-Provoking Mystery

  By Sven Mikulec In 1966, the Italian maestro Michelangelo Antonioni, already famous as one of the most prominent European…

3 years ago

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…

3 years ago

‘They Live’: John Carpenter’s Brilliantly Simple and Hugely Enjoyable Assault on Reagan’s America

  By Sven Mikulec   During the 1980s, John Carpenter stumbled upon a comic book based on Ray Nelson’s 1963…

3 years ago

‘Paths of Glory’: Stanley Kubrick’s First Step Towards Cinema Immortality

  By Sven Mikulec   There's a picture that will always be good, years from now, the great Kirk Douglas…

4 years ago