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‘Walk the Line’: How James Mangold Uncovered the Emotional History of Johnny Cash

  By Koraljka Suton   He had to find the range of his own creativity, and learn how to control…

3 years ago

Subject to the Requirements of the Service: Peter Weir’s ‘Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World’

    By Tim Pelan   Asked by Debbie Lynn Elias of Behind The Lens Online on what compels the…

3 years ago

Scorsese On the Ropes: The ‘Kamikaze’ Film-Making of ‘Raging Bull’

  By Tim Pelan   Scorsese’s Raging Bull is not your dad's boxing movie. It's certainly not a story of…

3 years ago

‘They Live’: John Carpenter’s Brilliantly Simple and Hugely Enjoyable Assault on Reagan’s America

  By Sven Mikulec   During the 1980s, John Carpenter stumbled upon a comic book based on Ray Nelson’s 1963…

3 years ago

‘Paths of Glory’: Stanley Kubrick’s First Step Towards Cinema Immortality

  By Sven Mikulec   There's a picture that will always be good, years from now, the great Kirk Douglas…

4 years ago

‘Atlantic City’: Louis Malle’s Nostalgic Juxtaposition of Deterioration and Renewal

  By Koraljka Suton   When acclaimed French New Wave director Louis Malle was approached by producer Alexandre Mnouchkine with…

4 years ago

‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’: Steven Spielberg’s Gamble That Paid Off Generously

  By Sven Mikulec   People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don’t have a middle or an…

4 years ago

The Greater the Truth, the Greater the Damage: ‘The Insider,’ Michael Mann’s White-Collar Thrill Ride of Corporate Malfeasance

    By Tim Pelan   Few filmmakers can take a whistle-blowing dramatization of real life potentially dusty legal shenanigans…

4 years ago

‘A History of Violence’: David Cronenberg’s Superb Study of the Basic Impulses that Drive Humanity

  By Sven Mikulec   The master of the specific subgenre called body horror and the man who put out…

4 years ago