Intention Is Everything: Christopher McQuarrie’s ‘The Way of the Gun’
Christopher McQuarrie’s directorial debut after his Oscar-winning screenplay success with The Usual Suspects (1995), The Way of the Gun (2000) is most often described as…
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The Uses of Disenchantment: How Michael Mann’s ‘The Keep’ Fell Into Neglect
By Tim Pelan In early 2016 BAMcinématek held a major retrospective of all Michael Mann’s filmography, throwing up a few surprises, such as a…
David Lean’s ‘Nostromo’: The Old Man and the Untold Tale of the Seaboard
David Lean, two-time Oscar-winning director of Lawrence Of Arabia and The Bridge On the River Kwai, had something of a renaissance in the 1980s after…
‘Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me’: Lynch Walking Back and Burning Himself in the Process
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…
‘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…
‘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
By Lovorko Marić David Lynch, a name that is for many film enthusiasts the epitome for weird, surreal, and bizarre, surprised many people when…
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,…