Interview

The impact of Martin Scorsese’s ‘Mean Streets’

Celebrated as one of the most original American films of all time, Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets holds a firm place…

10 years ago

Roman Polanski’s ‘Tess’ is a work of great pastoral beauty as well as vivid storytelling

Roman Polanski's arguably only romance film, Tess, is one his critically best accepted works, and the performance of 18-year-old Nastassja…

10 years ago

John Cassavetes – the Man and His Work

In 1983, during the production of John Cassavetes’s Love Streams, journalist Michael Ventura was hired by Cannon Films executive Menahem…

10 years ago

Sydney Pollack’s ‘Three Days of the Condor’ is one of the finest spy thrillers ever filmed

  By Sven Mikulec The paranoid, skeptical, post-Watergate America gave birth to Sydney Pollack's first-class thrilller Three Days of the…

10 years ago

“Altmanesque means never having to say you’re sorry”

Robert Altman's Short Cuts is not only one of the more enticing films of the fruitful nineties, but also a…

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“Huston treats the story with a level, unsentimental honesty and makes it into one of his best films”

  By Sven Mikulec The neo-noir boxing drama that finally reinstated John Huston on the road of financial success after…

10 years ago

“There is no American masterpiece more prescient than and still as urgent as NASHVILLE”

This cornerstone of 1970s American moviemaking from Robert Altman is a panoramic view of the country’s political and cultural landscapes,…

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The Men Who Made the Movies: Alfred Hitchcock (1973)

The Master of Suspense himself, who is interviewed extensively here, shares stories including his deep-seated fear of policemen, elaborates on…

10 years ago

“Take all of the responsibility, because you’re going to get all of the blame”

Of his directorial debut, acclaimed director David Fincher summarised to The Digital Bits: “Alien 3 was flawed from its inception…

10 years ago

“My advice to young filmmakers is this: don’t follow trends, start them!”

  By Sven Mikulec In an interview he gave to American Film in 1978, legendary director Frank Capra talks about…

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