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‘Phantom of the Paradise’: De Palma’s Cult Horror Musical That Got Its Second Chance to Shine

  By Sven Mikulec In Brian De Palma's entire career, his 1974 musical horror film Phantom of the Paradise is…

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‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’: Lucas and Spielberg’s Epitome of Action-Adventure Films Still Waiting to Be Surpassed

  By Sven Mikulec   Trying to catch a break from all the Star Wars hype, in the spring of…

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‘Easy Rider’: A Revolutionary Road-Trip Film that Heralded a New Era of Filmmaking

  By Sven Mikulec Every period of American history and culture has at least one quintessential movie that represents everything…

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Hal Ashby’s ‘Bound for Glory’: An Unorthodox Biopic Chock-Full Of Cinematic Beauty

The legendary American folk singer-songwriter Woodrow Wilson Guthrie was born in 1912, and in the 55 years of his life…

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‘The Trial’: Orson Welles’ Exhibition of Paranoia, Illogicality and Personal Responsibility in His Take on Kafka’s Classic

  By Sven Mikulec   Refusing to call it an adaptation of Franz Kafka's classic novel published in 1925, not…

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‘Notorious’: Hitchcock’s Mature and Intricate Espionage Masterpiece

  By Sven Mikulec   Sometime in August 1944, while Alfred Hitchcock was having lunch with David O. Selznick's story…

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‘Escape from New York’: John Carpenter’s Thrilling, Pumped-Up Ride through the Streets of a Dystopian New York City

  By Sven Mikulec In the post-Watergate period of America struggling with insecurity, distrust and national embarrassment, USC-educated filmmaker John…

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‘Bad Day at Black Rock’: John Sturges’ Audacious and Culturally Significant Masterfully Suspenseful Drama

  By Sven Mikulec One of the biggest compliments that John Sturges’ Bad Day at Black Rock received was when…

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‘The Omen’: Richard Donner’s Horror Classic Sailing the Profitable Waves of Post-‘The Exorcist’ American Cinema

  By Sven Mikulec Sailing on the trendy and profitable satanic waves of horror’s inclusion in mainstream Hollywood that William…

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