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The post ‘The Killing of a Chinese Bookie’: Turning Entertainment into Personal Statement—Revisiting a Masterpiece on Its 50th Anniversary appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/killing-of-a-chinese-bookie/feed/ 0 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/approaching-menace-the-american-pathology-of-martin-scorseses-taxi-driver/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/approaching-menace-the-american-pathology-of-martin-scorseses-taxi-driver/#comments Sat, 07 Feb 2026 13:54:01 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=32914 Taxi Driver poster art by Tony Stella https://www.tony-stella.com/   Loneliness has followed me my whole life, everywhere. In bars, in […]

The post Approaching Menace: The American Pathology of Martin Scorsese’s ‘Taxi Driver’—Revisiting a Masterpiece on Its 50th Anniversary appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/approaching-menace-the-american-pathology-of-martin-scorseses-taxi-driver/feed/ 3 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/catch-me-if-you-can/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/catch-me-if-you-can/#respond Thu, 25 Dec 2025 22:50:52 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=50622 Catch Me If You Can poster art by Mike Pappa   By Koraljka Suton   Part of the inspiration of […]

The post ‘Catch Me If You Can’: Steven Spielberg’s Underrated Crime Comedy Is a Touching Drama About Identity, (Self-)Deception and Broken Families at Its Core appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/catch-me-if-you-can/feed/ 0 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/empires-end-john-hustons-the-man-who-would-be-king/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/empires-end-john-hustons-the-man-who-would-be-king/#comments Tue, 16 Dec 2025 13:18:10 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=34629   By Tim Pelan   On the occasion of John Huston’s The Man Who Would Be King screening at the […]

The post Empire’s End: John Huston’s ‘The Man Who Would Be King’—Revisiting a Masterpiece on Its 50th Anniversary appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/empires-end-john-hustons-the-man-who-would-be-king/feed/ 1 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/heat/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/heat/#respond Mon, 15 Dec 2025 13:38:30 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=42104 Heat poster art by Ignacio RC, https://ignaciorc.com/heat   By Koraljka Suton   A guy told me one time, “Don’t let […]

The post ‘Heat’ at 30: Michael Mann’s Meticulous Masterpiece of Both Style and Substance That Transcends Genre appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/heat/feed/ 0 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/wickerman/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/wickerman/#respond Sat, 06 Dec 2025 13:38:49 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=52257 The Wicker Man poster art by Karl Fitzgerald https://www.karlfitzgeraldart.com/   By Tim Pelan   Making the film was great fun. […]

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The post ‘Network’: Sidney Lumet and Paddy Chayefsky’s Gruesome Prophecy Turned Reality—Revisiting a Masterpiece on Its 49th Anniversary appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/network/feed/ 0 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/past-quintessential-film-noir-launched-robert-mitchum-kirk-douglas-careers/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/past-quintessential-film-noir-launched-robert-mitchum-kirk-douglas-careers/#comments Tue, 25 Nov 2025 13:12:42 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=30045   By Sven Mikulec   Seventy years since its release, Out of the Past has long enjoyed an established place […]

The post ‘Out of the Past’ at 78: The Quintessential Film Noir that Launched Robert Mitchum and Kirk Douglas’ Careers appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/past-quintessential-film-noir-launched-robert-mitchum-kirk-douglas-careers/feed/ 4 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/casino/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/casino/#respond Sat, 22 Nov 2025 17:59:15 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=39761   By Tim Pelan   This story has to be on a big canvas. There’s no sense in my getting […]

The post Paradise Lost: How Martin Scorsese’s ‘Casino’ Charts the Rise and Fall of a Criminal Empire—Revisiting a Masterpiece on Its 30th Anniversary appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/casino/feed/ 0 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/frankenstein/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/frankenstein/#respond Fri, 21 Nov 2025 13:16:19 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=36329   By Koraljka Suton   Look! It’s moving. It’s alive. It’s alive… It’s alive, it’s moving, it’s alive, it’s alive, […]

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