screenwriting https://cinephiliabeyond.org Films and Filmmaking Sat, 01 Nov 2025 14:05:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/cropped-007_w-1-32x32.jpg screenwriting https://cinephiliabeyond.org 32 32 ‘To Live and Die in L.A.’ at 40: How Friedkin Made One of the Best Films of the Eighties https://cinephiliabeyond.org/to-live-and-die-in-la/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/to-live-and-die-in-la/#respond Sat, 01 Nov 2025 13:22:06 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=47831   By Sven Mikulec   All of the films I have made, that I have chosen to make, are all […]

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Play for Play: How The Color of Money’s ‘One For Them’ Assignment Reignited Martin Scorsese’s Hunger for the Work https://cinephiliabeyond.org/the-color-of-money/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/the-color-of-money/#comments Fri, 17 Oct 2025 16:57:47 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=38059   By Tim Pelan   After ‘The Last Temptation‘ was cancelled in ’83, I had to get myself back in […]

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‘Gravity’ at 12: The Pain of Isolation and the Importance of Connection in the Face of Adversity https://cinephiliabeyond.org/gravity/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/gravity/#respond Sat, 04 Oct 2025 20:05:10 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=52725   By Koraljka Suton   In 2013, a thrillingly ambitious, yet incredibly intimate science fiction drama set in space and […]

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‘L’Avventura’ at 65: Michelangelo Antonioni’s Visual Poetry and Its Impact on the World of Film https://cinephiliabeyond.org/lavventura/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/lavventura/#comments Mon, 29 Sep 2025 12:48:37 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=34000   By Sven Mikulec   It was May 1960 when Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’Avventura first introduced itself to the public’s eye. […]

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‘After Hours’ at 40: Celebrating Scorsese’s Kafka-Inspired New York Odyssey https://cinephiliabeyond.org/after-hours/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/after-hours/#comments Thu, 11 Sep 2025 21:28:39 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=47485   By Koraljka Suton   ‘After Hours’ was like an independent film. It was shorter and cheaper. I just wanted […]

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‘Saving Private Ryan’: Spielberg’s Groundbreaking WWII Gem That Redefined the War Film Genre https://cinephiliabeyond.org/saving-private-ryan-spielbergs-groundbreaking-wwii-gem-that-redefined-the-war-film-genre/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/saving-private-ryan-spielbergs-groundbreaking-wwii-gem-that-redefined-the-war-film-genre/#respond Tue, 19 Aug 2025 23:56:38 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=60085   By Koraljka Suton   Born in 1946 in Ohio to a Jewish family, Steven Spielberg has grown to become […]

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‘Pulp Fiction’: How Quentin Tarantino Made a Postmodern Masterpiece https://cinephiliabeyond.org/pulp-fiction/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/pulp-fiction/#respond Fri, 15 Aug 2025 11:01:51 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=59969   By Koraljka Suton   In the early 1990s, Quentin Tarantino and his friend Roger Avary came up with an […]

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Australian Gothic: Peter Weir’s ‘Picnic at Hanging Rock’ at 50 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/picnic-at-hanging-rock/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/picnic-at-hanging-rock/#respond Fri, 08 Aug 2025 10:41:11 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=54174 Picnic at Hanging Rock poster art by Scott Saslow   By Tim Pelan   My only worry was whether an […]

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L.A. Breakdown, a Hitman In Crisis: Michael Mann’s ‘Collateral’ at 21 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/l-a-breakdown-a-hitman-in-crisis-michael-manns-collateral/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/l-a-breakdown-a-hitman-in-crisis-michael-manns-collateral/#respond Wed, 06 Aug 2025 12:57:59 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=33498 Collateral poster art by John Dunn, https://www.johndunnart.com/     By Tim Pelan   When people think of Tom Cruise, what […]

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So You Want to Start a Boutique Blu-ray Label? https://cinephiliabeyond.org/so-you-want-to-start-a-boutique-blu-ray-label/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/so-you-want-to-start-a-boutique-blu-ray-label/#respond Thu, 24 Jul 2025 16:32:14 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=59916 David Hughes, founder of UK-based ‘micro-Blu-ery’ Plumeria, has a few tips   By David Hughes   It’s said that the […]

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