With ‘Barry Lyndon,’ Stanley Kubrick’s Painterly Eye Invites Us to Be All-seeing, but Ultimately, Unknowing
By Tim Pelan I have had a complete set of Thackeray sitting on my bookshelf at home for years,…
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‘Magnolia’: Paul Thomas Anderson’s Absorbing Mosaic of Compassion, Humanity and the Importance of Forgiveness
By Sven Mikulec In 1997, an ambitious 26-year-old called Paul Thomas Anderson made Boogie Nights, his sophomore directing effort…
‘The Last Temptation of Christ’ As a Testament to and an Exploration of Scorsese’s Own Faith
By Koraljka Suton Ever since he was a little boy, director Martin Scorsese wanted to make a movie about…
40 Years of Hurt, Face-Hugging Dreams of Breathing: Ridley Scott’s ‘Alien’
By Tim Pelan Ripley’s words to the Xenomorph in Alien 3 sum up how we all feel: “You’ve been…
‘JFK’: Oliver Stone’s Emotionally Accurate and Masterfully Crafted Trip Down the Rabbit Hole
By Koraljka Suton “I think I was always controversial, provocative. But I can’t help it. I have to go…
Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Out of Sight’: An Achronological Time-Out from Conventional Crime Narrative
By Tim Pelan Steven Soderbergh’s 1998 adaptation of Elmore Leonard’s crime novel Out of Sight experiments with form, tussles…
Approaching Menace: The American Pathology of Martin Scorsese’s ‘Taxi Driver’
By Tim Pelan Many rightly attribute Taxi Driver’s success to screenwriter Paul Schrader, director Martin Scorsese, and method leading…
Limitation of Life: You Can’t Go Back in John Frankenheimer’s ‘Seconds’
By Tim Pelan Who we are depends on a multitude of influences, societal and blood-borne. Mankind is the only…
Spies Like Us: Harry Palmer, the Everyday Hero of ‘The Ipcress File’
By Tim Pelan The Ipcress File, both film adaptation by director Sidney J. Furie and producer Harry Saltzman, and…
Paul Hirsch on ‘Star Wars’: Thinking We Were Making a Film for Kids, We Made a Film for the Kid in All of Us
An unusually calm, composed and quiet man sits across the table from me and my notebook, patiently awaiting my next…