Cinephilia & Beyond 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 Cinephilia & Beyond 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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‘Wait Until Dark’: Terence Young’s Terrifyingly Effective Suspense Thriller with Brilliant Audrey Hepburn and Alan Arkin https://cinephiliabeyond.org/wait-dark-terence-youngs-terrifyingly-effective-suspense-thriller-brilliant-audrey-hepburn-alan-arkin/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/wait-dark-terence-youngs-terrifyingly-effective-suspense-thriller-brilliant-audrey-hepburn-alan-arkin/#respond Sun, 26 Oct 2025 13:13:23 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=28898   By Sven Mikulec   Frederick Knott, the esteemed English playwright, might have written only three plays in his career, […]

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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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‘Fight Club’ at 26: David Fincher’s Stylish Exploration of Modern-Day Man’s Estrangement and Disillusionment https://cinephiliabeyond.org/fight-club-david-finchers-stylish-exploration-modern-day-mans-estrangement-disillusionment/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/fight-club-david-finchers-stylish-exploration-modern-day-mans-estrangement-disillusionment/#comments Wed, 15 Oct 2025 12:10:38 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=29031 Fight Club poster art by ChangeTheThought   By Sven Mikulec   Standing proudly among the ranks of those films whose […]

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Original Cadence: A Conversation with Diane Keaton https://cinephiliabeyond.org/original-cadence-a-conversation-with-diane-keaton/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/original-cadence-a-conversation-with-diane-keaton/#comments Sat, 11 Oct 2025 20:20:09 +0000 http://www.cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=14709   A conversation with Diane Keaton by Will McCrabb   The following is a breeze of a conversation conducted over […]

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William Friedkin’s ‘The French Connection’ at 54: The Seventies’ Peak of Cinematic Excitement https://cinephiliabeyond.org/william-friedkins-the-french-connection-the-seventies-peak-of-cinematic-excitement/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/william-friedkins-the-french-connection-the-seventies-peak-of-cinematic-excitement/#comments Thu, 09 Oct 2025 08:25:31 +0000 http://www.cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=17534   By Sven Mikulec   One of the first things that comes to mind when The French Connection is discussed […]

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“Bide Your Time and Everything Becomes Clear”: The Construction of Memory in Soderbergh’s ‘The Limey’ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/bide-time-everything-becomes-clear-construction-memory-soderberghs-limey/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/bide-time-everything-becomes-clear-construction-memory-soderberghs-limey/#respond Wed, 08 Oct 2025 12:27:57 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=27609   By Sven Mikulec   From time to time, a film that is received less enthusiastically at the box office […]

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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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‘A History of Violence’ at 20: David Cronenberg’s Superb Study of the Basic Impulses that Drive Humanity https://cinephiliabeyond.org/a-history-of-violence/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/a-history-of-violence/#comments Tue, 30 Sep 2025 18:36:15 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=32407   By Sven Mikulec   The master of the specific subgenre called body horror and the man who put out […]

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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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