Interview

‘Time Bandits’: The Ever-Lasting Importance of Terry Gilliam’s Best Fairy Tale

  By Sven Mikulec   One of the most imaginative children’s movies we’ve ever seen was made in 1981 by…

9 years ago

William Friedkin’s ‘The French Connection’: The Seventies’ Peak of Cinematic Excitement

  By Sven Mikulec One of the first things that come to mind when The French Connection is discussed is…

9 years ago

‘Get Carter’: Why Mike Hodges’ Uncompromising Gangster Film Gained Cult Following

  By Sven Mikulec Intent on making a great British gangster film, producer Michael Klinger purchased the rights to Ted…

9 years ago

‘Rebecca’: Why Hitchcock’s First American Film Was so Ahead of Its Time

  By Sven Mikulec Even though Alfred Hitchcock, discussing Rebecca with the great François Truffaut, labeled the film as “not…

9 years ago

‘Bullitt’: A Suspense-Packed Thriller that Introduced a New Kind of Action Films

  By Sven Mikulec Steve McQueen is definitely one of those larger-than-life film icons, a movie star that marked a…

9 years ago

‘Patton’: A Most Compelling Biopic Worthy of Its Enigmatic Subject

  By Sven Mikulec As far as biographical films go, it's difficult to find a more compelling picture than Franklin…

9 years ago

‘Straw Dogs’: Peckinpah’s Most Controversial Blade Hasn’t Lost Any of Its Sharpness Over the Years

After Sam Peckinpah angered the studio with his Ballad of Cable Hogue, where he went 19 days over schedule and…

9 years ago

Bob Rafelson’s ‘Five Easy Pieces’ is the quintessential film of the so-called American New Wave

  By Sven Mikulec The film that turned Bob Rafelson into the leader of the so-called American New Wave, a…

9 years ago

‘The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean’: An Underappreciated Elegy to the Dying West

Probably one of John Huston's most personal works, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, the 1972 Western with…

9 years ago

‘Blazing Saddles’: The Career’s Highlight of a Man Without Whom the World of Comedy Would Be a Far Gloomier Place

Whenever we start talking about the genre of film parody, it's impossible not to think of the great Mel Brooks.…

9 years ago