‘Wild at Heart’: A Twisted, Romantic Road Movie as a Lynchian Homage to ‘The Wizard of Oz’
David Lynch, a name that is for many film enthusiasts the epitome for weird, surreal, and bizarre, surprised many people when he had characterised himself…
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‘Blue Velvet’: A Warning Sign for All Voyeurs Reaching for the Underworld of Perversion
David Lynch, a name that is for many film enthusiasts the epitome for weird, surreal, and bizarre, surprised many people when he had characterised himself…
‘Dune’: Selling Out in Deep Space
David Lynch, a name that is for many film enthusiasts the epitome for weird, surreal, and bizarre, surprised many people when he had characterised himself…
Jean-Pierre Melville: Life and Work of a Groundbreaking Filmmaking Poet
One of the very few filmmakers we deeply cherish above almost all others and whose work we hold in the greatest esteem is Jean-Pierre Melville,…
‘Billy, How Did You Do It?’: A Unique and Rewarding Window into the Mind of One of Hollywood’s Greatest
The Austrian-born filmmaker who would become one of the most important figures of American cinema, Billy Wilder could have been proud of a rich career…
‘Ernst Lubitsch and the Comedy of the Thirties’: One More Hidden Chest in the Mise-en-Scène Magazine’s Treasure Trove
Born in Berlin in 1892 to a Russian Jewish émigré running a dressmaking company, Ernst Lubitsch got into show business through the stage. Around 1910,…
John Huston and Humphrey Bogart: The Mise-en-Scène Magazine’s Exploration of the Legendary Director-Actor Partnership
When someone mentions the most famous director-actor collaborations, there are usually several monumental pairs that come to an average film lover’s mind before this great…
Leigh Brackett: A Terrific Writer Ahead of Her Time just as She Was Ahead of Her Colleagues
The name Leigh Brackett, already surely familiar to every true fan of the literary genre of science fiction, is a name that should be celebrated…
Sidney Lumet and Paddy Chayevsky’s ‘Network’: The Grim Prophecy that Was Once Just Brilliant Satire
What excited the general public and outraged horrified television moguls as a razor-sharp satire in 1976, a film promoted as outrageous, hasn’t lost its principal…
Hal Ashby’s ‘Shampoo’: The Brazen Comedy that Depicted the End of the Sixties’s Innocence
After saying saying farewell to the nation in a televized address, Richard Nixon handed in his resignation in August, 1974, leaving the Oval Office smeared…