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Milos Forman’s ‘Amadeus’: A Stylish Cinematic Homage The Musical Prodigy Deserved

Miloš Forman's 1984 period drama Amadeus surely has to be one of the best of its kind, and yet it…

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‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail’: The Peak of British Comedy

  By Sven Mikulec Monty Python's 1975 hilarious comedy Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which is now to be…

9 years ago

Stanley Kramer’s ‘On the Beach’: A Most Persuasive Cautioning Tale if We Ever Saw One

If you’re going to make a film about the end of the world, a Sydney Sun journalist called Neil Jillet…

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John Ford’s ‘The Searchers’: The Essential Film of American Culture and Identity

  By Sven Mikulec   Respected filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer (The Act of Killing, The Look of Silence), an intelligent, educated…

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Elia Kazan’s ‘East of Eden’: James Dean’s Promise He Was Prevented From Delivering On

The great Elia Kazan's East of Eden has entered the film history books as a marvelous and technically highly skilled…

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‘Bonnie and Clyde’: An Exquisite Filmmaking Vision that Captured the Essence of the Sixties

  By Sven Mikulec Revolutionary in its depiction of gritty, blood-splattering violence, cleverly and to great effect exploiting the counter-culture…

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‘High Noon’: A Remarkable Take on Society Whatever You Find Lurking Beneath Its Surface

  By Sven Mikulec The fact that somebody shoots a gun is of no interest. What I want to know…

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John McTiernan’s ‘Die Hard’: Reinventing the Hollywood Action Genre

  By Sven Mikulec It would have taken so little for John McTiernan's Die Hard, the metonym of action movies…

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Sydney Pollack’s ‘The Yakuza’: The Merging of Two Worlds in a Timeless Gangster Classic

  By Sven Mikulec   The significance of Sydney Pollack's 1974 neo-noir gangster film The Yakuza lies not only its…

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Fincher’s ‘Zodiac’ As Easily One Of The Best Thrillers Of The Millennium So Far

He paints with people, Jake Gyllenhaal said of David Fincher after the two had worked together on Zodiac. “It's tough…

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