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The post ‘Network’: Sidney Lumet and Paddy Chayefsky’s Gruesome Prophecy Turned Reality—Revisiting a Masterpiece on Its 49th Anniversary appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/network/feed/ 0 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/past-quintessential-film-noir-launched-robert-mitchum-kirk-douglas-careers/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/past-quintessential-film-noir-launched-robert-mitchum-kirk-douglas-careers/#comments Tue, 25 Nov 2025 13:12:42 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=30045   By Sven Mikulec   Seventy years since its release, Out of the Past has long enjoyed an established place […]

The post ‘Out of the Past’ at 78: The Quintessential Film Noir that Launched Robert Mitchum and Kirk Douglas’ Careers appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/past-quintessential-film-noir-launched-robert-mitchum-kirk-douglas-careers/feed/ 4 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/casino/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/casino/#respond Sat, 22 Nov 2025 17:59:15 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=39761   By Tim Pelan   This story has to be on a big canvas. There’s no sense in my getting […]

The post Paradise Lost: How Martin Scorsese’s ‘Casino’ Charts the Rise and Fall of a Criminal Empire—Revisiting a Masterpiece on Its 30th Anniversary appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/casino/feed/ 0 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/frankenstein/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/frankenstein/#respond Fri, 21 Nov 2025 13:16:19 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=36329   By Koraljka Suton   Look! It’s moving. It’s alive. It’s alive… It’s alive, it’s moving, it’s alive, it’s alive, […]

The post ‘Frankenstein’: James Whale’s Macabre Take on One of the Most Sympathetic Characters Ever Created in the World of English Letters appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/frankenstein/feed/ 0 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/one-flew-cuckoos-nest-milos-formans-mosaic-brilliance-lesson-still-important-ever/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/one-flew-cuckoos-nest-milos-formans-mosaic-brilliance-lesson-still-important-ever/#comments Wed, 19 Nov 2025 13:37:41 +0000 http://www.cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=24970 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest poster art by Andrew Rowland   By Sven Mikulec   If you open any […]

The post ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ at 50: Miloš Forman’s Mosaic of Brilliance With a Lesson Still As Important As Ever appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/one-flew-cuckoos-nest-milos-formans-mosaic-brilliance-lesson-still-important-ever/feed/ 2 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/subject-requirements-service-peter-weirs-master-commander-far-side-world/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/subject-requirements-service-peter-weirs-master-commander-far-side-world/#comments Fri, 14 Nov 2025 17:41:32 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=32343 Master and Commander poster art by Colin Murdoch   By Tim Pelan   Asked by Debbie Lynn Elias of Behind […]

The post Subject to the Requirements of the Service: Peter Weir’s ‘Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World’ at 22 appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/subject-requirements-service-peter-weirs-master-commander-far-side-world/feed/ 1 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 […]

The post ‘To Live and Die in L.A.’ at 40: How Friedkin Made One of the Best Films of the Eighties appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/to-live-and-die-in-la/feed/ 0 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, […]

The post ‘Wait Until Dark’: Terence Young’s Terrifyingly Effective Suspense Thriller with Brilliant Audrey Hepburn and Alan Arkin appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/wait-dark-terence-youngs-terrifyingly-effective-suspense-thriller-brilliant-audrey-hepburn-alan-arkin/feed/ 0 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 […]

The post Play for Play: How The Color of Money’s ‘One For Them’ Assignment Reignited Martin Scorsese’s Hunger for the Work appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/the-color-of-money/feed/ 1 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 […]

The post ‘Fight Club’ at 26: David Fincher’s Stylish Exploration of Modern-Day Man’s Estrangement and Disillusionment appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/fight-club-david-finchers-stylish-exploration-modern-day-mans-estrangement-disillusionment/feed/ 1