‘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…
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‘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…
‘Dressed to Kill’: Brian De Palma’s Razor-Sharp, Dreamlike Erotic Thriller
With its highly stylized images of violence, exceptional acting performances from Nancy Allen and Michael Caine, seductive and staggeringly overt eroticism, ability to deliver shock…
‘Homicide’: David Mamet’s Soul-Searching Thriller as a Modern-Day Classic
In the course of the last forty years, the Chicago-born Pulitzer-winning American playwright, screenwriter and director David Mamet steadily built his name with the reputation…