Interview

Never-Before-Broadcast Interviews with Legends of the Silver Screen

YouTube user Colin Grimshaw is bringing us videos that have never been seen on broadcast TV. Actors and directors such…

9 years ago

Peter Bogdanovich’s ‘What’s Up, Doc?’ brought screwball back to life

  By Sven Mikulec Peter Bogdanovich’s disarmingly charming screwball comedy What’s Up, Doc? is not just a highly entertaining comedy…

9 years ago

From Getting Into the Box with ‘Buried’ to Breaking Out with ‘The Sea of Trees’: A Conversation with Chris Sparling

A Conversation with Chris Sparling by Sven Mikulec Back in 2010, I watched a nice little thriller about an American driver…

9 years ago

Abel Ferrara’s ‘King of New York’ gained a true, cult reputation of a legitimate gangster classic

  Sven Mikulec When it comes to filmmakers who are, among other things, distinguished for their strong and passionate connection…

9 years ago

Hitchcock’s Partner in Suspense: The Life of Screenwriter Charles Bennett

With a career that spanned from the silent era to the 1990s, British screenwriter Charles Bennett (1899-1995) lived an extraordinary…

9 years ago

Sidney Lumet’s ‘Dog Day Afternoon’ is most likely the one film in the director’s rich career that stayed with us the most

  By Sven Mikulec It was 12 Angry Men that initially attracted us to the great American filmmaker and storyteller…

9 years ago

Brian De Palma’s ‘Blow Out’ is one of the finest films about the process of filmmaking

  By Sven Mikulec   A stylish American thriller knee-deep in paranoia, Brian De Palma's Blow Out is a neatly…

9 years ago

All hail Kubrick’s ‘Barry Lyndon,’ a masterclass in bringing a unique filmmaker’s vision to life

What is now considered one of Stanley Kubrick's most accomplished films, as well as an example of innovative, audacious filmmaking…

9 years ago

Alfred Hitchcock at the National Film Theatre

‘It is a great privilege and honour to introduce to you, in the flesh, the director that most other directors…

9 years ago

Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Apocalypse Now’ must be the key lecture in anyone’s filmmaking education

People often exaggerate when they talk about films. They get carried away, leaving the cinema emotionally stirred and too impressed…

9 years ago