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‘Bonnie and Clyde’: An Exquisite Filmmaking Vision that Captured the Essence of the Sixties

  By Sven Mikulec Revolutionary in its depiction of gritty, blood-splattering violence, cleverly and to great effect exploiting the counter-culture…

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Fincher’s ‘Zodiac’ As Easily One Of The Best Thrillers Of The Millennium So Far

He paints with people, Jake Gyllenhaal said of David Fincher after the two had worked together on Zodiac. “It's tough…

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‘The Age of Innocence’: Scorsese’s Strikingly Passionate Depiction of Unconsummated Love

We're rather determined in defending our claim that Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence is one of the best literary…

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‘Cape Fear’: How Scorsese Added Complexity and Humanity to a Beloved Classic

  By Sven Mikulec   Back in 1962, J. Lee Thompson made a cinematic adaptation of John D. MacDonald's novel…

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‘A Passage to India’: David Lean’s Rocky Road to Creating a Most Powerful Adaptation

In 1924 E.M. Forster published his highly acclaimed novel A Passage to India. Exactly sixty years later David Lean's film…

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Nicolas Roeg’s ‘Don’t Look Now’ is a special kind of a supernatural thriller that aptly deals with subjects far from supernatural

  By Sven Mikulec Set in the dream-like landscape of the mesmerizing city of Venice painted in dark, somber tones,…

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Sidney Lumet’s ‘Dog Day Afternoon’ is most likely the one film in the director’s rich career that stayed with us the most

  By Sven Mikulec It was 12 Angry Men that initially attracted us to the great American filmmaker and storyteller…

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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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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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Provocative, pensive and splendidly acted, Hitchcock’s ‘Rope’ is a heck of a film

Back in 1948 the great Alfred Hitchcock took a risk when, as a major director, decided to turn his film…

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