Filmmaking

‘Mildred Pierce’: One of the Greatest Hollywood Comeback Stories

  By Sven Mikulec Considered unfilmable by many, James. M. Cain's novel ‘Mildred Pierce’ was eventually very successfully turned into…

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William Friedkin’s ‘The Exorcist’: The Most Terrifying Film We Ever Laid Eyes On

It's difficult to think of a horror film that caused so much controversy and polarized the audience to this degree…

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‘The Man Who Knew Too Much’: The Thriller Master’s Only Remake

The only remake Alfred Hitchcock ever made, the 1956 version of The Man Who Knew Too Much is an exciting,…

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Master Class with Martin Scorsese

From Scorsese and Lynch to Wenders and Godard, interviews with twenty of the world’s greatest directors on how they make…

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‘Rocky’: A Heartwarming Sports Drama Reflecting Its Very Process of Creation

  By Sven Mikulec   Sylvester Stallone’s breakout role and the whole process behind its development has become common knowledge.…

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Milos Forman’s ‘Amadeus’: A Stylish Cinematic Homage The Musical Prodigy Deserved

Miloš Forman's 1984 period drama Amadeus surely has to be one of the best of its kind, and yet it…

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‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail’: The Peak of British Comedy

  By Sven Mikulec Monty Python's 1975 hilarious comedy Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which is now to be…

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Stanley Kramer’s ‘On the Beach’: A Most Persuasive Cautioning Tale if We Ever Saw One

If you’re going to make a film about the end of the world, a Sydney Sun journalist called Neil Jillet…

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The Holy Grail of Workprints: The Five-Hour Rough Version of ‘Apocalypse Now’

  Workprints, rough versions of films before the editing process kicks in and trims out all the material deemed surplus,…

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John Ford’s ‘The Searchers’: The Essential Film of American Culture and Identity

  By Sven Mikulec   Respected filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer (The Act of Killing, The Look of Silence), an intelligent, educated…

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