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Ridley Scott’s ‘Blade Runner’: A Game-Changing Science-Fiction Classic

  By Sven Mikulec   I read an article recently saying that one of the reasons the film has found…

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‘The Ballad of Cable Hogue’: Sam Peckinpah’s Most Tender Fable of the Dying West

  By Sven Mikulec More than often unfairly placed into a single drawer and labeled as the master of misogynistic…

7 years ago

‘Marnie’: Hitchcock’s Controversial Exploration of Sexual Violence and the Complexity of the Human Psyche

The film that started out as a critical failure, labeled as the weakest link in the maestro's string of high-quality…

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‘sex, lies, and videotape’: Steven Soderbergh’s Groundbreaking Debut that Shook the Indie Filmmaking Scene

  By Sven Mikulec   When Steven Soderbergh's groundbreaking feature film debut sex, lies, and videotape conquered Cannes in 1989,…

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“Bide Your Time and Everything Becomes Clear”: The Construction of Memory in Soderbergh’s ‘The Limey’

  By Sven Mikulec   From time to time, a film that is received less enthusiastically at the box office…

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‘Annie Hall’: One of the Last Beautiful American Films of the Pre-Blockbuster Era

It was April 1978 and a whole gallery of Hollywood stars was seated at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los…

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‘Fargo’: The Unforgettable Dark Comedy that Set the Coen Brothers Up as a Recognizable Voice in American Cinema

Even though the Coen brothers made a name out of themselves in the indie circles with a series of praised…

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‘There Will Be Blood’: Paul Thomas Anderson’s Epic Take on American Identity with Day-Lewis’ Performance of a Lifetime

  By Sven Mikulec   In his fifth feature film, Paul Thomas Anderson, the boy genius who turned into one…

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‘Angels with Dirty Faces’: Michael Curtiz’s Touching Gangster Classic Forged Under the All-Seeing Eye of the Hays Code

  By Sven Mikulec   Back in the thirties, gangster movies were increasingly popular in the American cinema. The subject…

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‘8½’: Federico Fellini’s Daring, Self-Reflexive Masterpiece as a Most Intimate Exploration of Cinema

  By Sven Mikulec   Working in the film business all the way since the forties, when he started out…

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