https://cinephiliabeyond.org Films and Filmmaking Fri, 13 Mar 2026 21:31:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/cropped-007_w-1-32x32.jpg https://cinephiliabeyond.org 32 32 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/john-fords-the-searchers-the-essential-film-of-american-culture-and-identity/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/john-fords-the-searchers-the-essential-film-of-american-culture-and-identity/#comments Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:43:20 +0000 http://www.cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=18698   By Sven Mikulec   Respected filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer (The Act of Killing, The Look of Silence), an intelligent, educated […]

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The post ‘The Killing of a Chinese Bookie’: Turning Entertainment into Personal Statement—Revisiting a Masterpiece on Its 50th Anniversary appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/killing-of-a-chinese-bookie/feed/ 0 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/approaching-menace-the-american-pathology-of-martin-scorseses-taxi-driver/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/approaching-menace-the-american-pathology-of-martin-scorseses-taxi-driver/#comments Sat, 07 Feb 2026 13:54:01 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=32914 Taxi Driver poster art by Tony Stella https://www.tony-stella.com/   Loneliness has followed me my whole life, everywhere. In bars, in […]

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The post ‘I Am Insane, and You Are My Insanity’: Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Terry Gilliam’s Captivating World of ‘12 Monkeys’ appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/12monkeys/feed/ 0 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/rats-in-the-attic-william-friedkins-the-exorcist/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/rats-in-the-attic-william-friedkins-the-exorcist/#respond Fri, 26 Dec 2025 14:01:31 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=33403   By Tim Pelan   Fifty-two years after its powerful debut, and with all the attendant publicity, analysis, and secondhand […]

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The post ‘Catch Me If You Can’: Steven Spielberg’s Underrated Crime Comedy Is a Touching Drama About Identity, (Self-)Deception and Broken Families at Its Core appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/catch-me-if-you-can/feed/ 0 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/barry-lyndon/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/barry-lyndon/#respond Thu, 18 Dec 2025 10:17:46 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=41485   By Tim Pelan   I have had a complete set of Thackeray sitting on my bookshelf at home for […]

The post With ‘Barry Lyndon,’ Stanley Kubrick’s Painterly Eye Invites Us to Be All-seeing, but Ultimately, Unknowing—Revisiting a Masterpiece on Its 50th Anniversary appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/barry-lyndon/feed/ 0 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/empires-end-john-hustons-the-man-who-would-be-king/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/empires-end-john-hustons-the-man-who-would-be-king/#comments Tue, 16 Dec 2025 13:18:10 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=34629   By Tim Pelan   On the occasion of John Huston’s The Man Who Would Be King screening at the […]

The post Empire’s End: John Huston’s ‘The Man Who Would Be King’—Revisiting a Masterpiece on Its 50th Anniversary appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/empires-end-john-hustons-the-man-who-would-be-king/feed/ 1 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/heat/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/heat/#respond Mon, 15 Dec 2025 13:38:30 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=42104 Heat poster art by Ignacio RC, https://ignaciorc.com/heat   By Koraljka Suton   A guy told me one time, “Don’t let […]

The post ‘Heat’ at 30: Michael Mann’s Meticulous Masterpiece of Both Style and Substance That Transcends Genre appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/heat/feed/ 0 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/wickerman/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/wickerman/#respond Sat, 06 Dec 2025 13:38:49 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=52257 The Wicker Man poster art by Karl Fitzgerald https://www.karlfitzgeraldart.com/   By Tim Pelan   Making the film was great fun. […]

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