Ridley Scott’s Masterpiece ‘Alien’: Nothing Is as Terrifying as the Fear of the Unknown
If it weren’t for the calamity of the ill-fated Alexander Jodorowsky’s Dune project, in all likelihood the world would not have known one of the…
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“Bide Your Time and Everything Becomes Clear”: The Construction of Memory in Soderbergh’s ‘The Limey’
From time to time, a film that is received less enthusiastically at the box office and perhaps gets overlooked by critics goes on to become…
‘Phantom of the Paradise’: De Palma’s Cult Horror Musical That Got Its Second Chance to Shine
In Brian De Palma’s entire career, his 1974 musical horror film Phantom of the Paradise is perhaps the one work of art most difficult to…
‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’: Milos Forman’s Mosaic of Brilliance With a Lesson Still As Important As Ever
If you open any book on the history of film, you are bound to find a plethora of historically significant movies that marked certain periods,…
‘Psycho’: The Proto-Slasher that Brought On a Revolution in Cinema
The image of a shabby motel in the middle of nowhere, by-passed by any relevant roads and inhabited by disturbing, weird or antisocial characters. The…
‘Frenzy’: Hitchcock’s Return to Perfection in His Penultimate Film
Having turned in a couple of ill-received films delving into the matters of political intrigue, Alfred Hitchcock went back to Britain and, practically at the…
‘The Big Shave’: Scorsese’s Vision of Death and American Politics Set in a Bathroom
In 1967, young Martin Scorsese sent in a script to the Exprmntl festival of Knokke, Belgium, as the filmmakers who participated could get free Agfa-Gevaert…
Sidney Lumet’s ‘Serpico’: One Honest Man’s Struggle Against the System
The legend has it, when Al Pacino asked Frank Serpico why he had blown the whistle on New York police corruption, Serpico replied, “If I…
Charlie Rose: The Treasure Chest of First-Class Film Interviews
The North Carolina-born, now legendary journalist Charlie Rose dabbled with becoming a lawyer, but fortunately for us, he soon developed a keen interest for politics…
‘Rear Window’: Hitchcock’s Cinematic Exploration of Voyeurism Disguised as a Top-Notch Thriller
For all our education and filmwatching experience, we still haven’t found a better example of a film that so efficiently, elegantly and in a brilliantly…