Run Through the Jungian: Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Full Metal Jacket’, a Phenomenological Treatise on War
By Tim Pelan “It’s not pro-war or anti-war. It’s just the way things are,” Stanley Kubrick said of Full…
Filmmaking
Carol Reed’s ‘The Third Man’: How Orson Welles Stole a Show He Was Barely In
By Koraljka Suton Filmmaker Carol Reed, hailed as one of the greatest U.K. directors, became famous in the late…
‘Kundun’: Martin Scorsese’s Serene Meditation on the Transient Nature of Life
By Koraljka Suton It is no secret that Martin Scorsese is a devoutly religious man. His life-long quest to…
‘In the Mouth of Madness’: John Carpenter’s Love Letter to H.P. Lovecraft and the Subgenre of Cosmic Horror
By Koraljka Suton Director John Carpenter was always one to surprise, frighten and delight his audiences. After making Dark…
The Risk Always Lives: Words to Live by On the Set of James Cameron’s ‘Aliens’
By Tim Pelan “My mommy always said there were no monsters—no real ones—but there are,” Carrie Henn’s hardened child…
Once Upon a Time… In the Philippines: Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Apocalypse Now’ Is a Three-Time Prime Cut of Film-Making Largesse
By Tim Pelan According to its director Francis Ford Coppola, Apocalypse Now was “a Los Angeles dream of war.”…
Moonbase Alpha, Moonbase Beta: Sam Rockwell Is the Secret VFX at the Heart of Duncan Jones’ ‘Moon’
By Tim Pelan Ten years ago Duncan Jones’ Moon (2009) became the little science fiction film that could, an…
‘The Last Temptation of Christ’ As a Testament to and an Exploration of Scorsese’s Own Faith
By Koraljka Suton Ever since he was a little boy, director Martin Scorsese wanted to make a movie about…
Eros and Thanatos Collide in David Cronenberg’s Id-Driven Adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s ‘Crash’
By Koraljka Suton As a young upstart filmmaker I felt that you were not a real filmmaker if you…
A Carpenter of Death and His Four Horsemen: Samuel Fuller’s ‘The Big Red One’
By Tim Pelan In Hollywood, personal films can often become bloated vanity projects. With Samuel Fuller’s semi-autobiographical WWII memoir,…