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‘Dressed to Kill’: Brian De Palma’s Razor-Sharp, Dreamlike Erotic Thriller

  By Sven Mikulec With its highly stylized images of violence, exceptional acting performances from Nancy Allen and Michael Caine,…

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‘All the President’s Men’: Following the Money to Become One of the Most Remarkable American Films to Date

  By Sven Mikulec When Robert Redford thought of an idea to make a film about the dogged efforts of…

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‘Obsession’: When De Palma Stepped Out of Hitchcock’s Shadow

Released in the late summer of 1976, more than a year since the end of production due to Columbia Pictures…

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‘Homicide’: David Mamet’s Soul-Searching Thriller as a Modern-Day Classic

In the course of the last forty years, the Chicago-born Pulitzer-winning American playwright, screenwriter and director David Mamet steadily built…

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‘The Last Detail’: Hal Ashby and Robert Towne’s Slice of the ’70s America

  By Sven Mikulec It was Robert Towne, one of the greatest script doctors that Hollywood has ever seen, that…

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‘The Truman Show’: Weir and Niccol’s Uplifting Yet Prophetically Disturbing Dystopian Satire

  By Sven Mikulec   Peter Weir's The Truman Show, the dystopian satire from 1998 written by Andrew Niccol, remains…

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Brian De Palma’s ‘Body Double’: A Hitchcockian Thriller Executed in Completely Original Style

In Body Double, his 1984 erotic thriller that the critics were much too quick to judge and discard, Brian De…

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‘Lost in Translation’: Sofia Coppola’s Poetic Exhibition of Love, Humor and Understanding

  By Sven Mikulec   In the opening years of the 21st century, Sofia Coppola wanted her second feature film…

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‘Double Indemnity’: A Mesmerizing Film Noir Conceived Out of a Troubled Relationship of Two Greats

Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity was made in 1944 and in the last seventy years it has stood on the pedestal…

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