The great Elia Kazan's East of Eden has entered the film history books as a marvelous and technically highly skilled…
By Sven Mikulec Revolutionary in its depiction of gritty, blood-splattering violence, cleverly and to great effect exploiting the counter-culture…
By Sven Mikulec The fact that somebody shoots a gun is of no interest. What I want to know…
By Sven Mikulec It would have taken so little for John McTiernan's Die Hard, the metonym of action movies…
By Sven Mikulec The significance of Sydney Pollack's 1974 neo-noir gangster film The Yakuza lies not only its…
Filmmaker and film historian Gary Leva has distinguished himself as the creative force behind scores of documentaries, broadcast programs and…
Even though William Friedkin's celebrated adrenaline-ridden thriller The French Connection had its legitimate sequel in 1975, many consider The Seven-Ups…
He paints with people, Jake Gyllenhaal said of David Fincher after the two had worked together on Zodiac. “It's tough…
We're rather determined in defending our claim that Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence is one of the best literary…
Following the death of Ken Russell in November 2011, Alan Yentob looks back over the career of the flamboyant film…