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The post NOC NOC: How ‘Mission: Impossible’ Lit the Fuse of Action Stardom Within Tom Cruise appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/mission-impossible/feed/ 0 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/stalker/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/stalker/#respond Tue, 19 May 2026 12:21:30 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=42489   By Koraljka Suton   ‘Stalker’ is not a desperate film. I don’t think a work of art can be […]

The post ‘Stalker’: Andrei Tarkovsky’s Merger of Contemplative Style and Transcendental Substance Designed to Put Us in the Zone appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/stalker/feed/ 0 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/vertigo/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/vertigo/#comments Sat, 09 May 2026 12:36:58 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=39930   By Koraljka Suton   It is no secret that the late Alfred Hitchcock was—and still is—not only one of […]

The post Hitchcock’s ‘Vertigo’: The Unrelenting Male Gaze that Blurs the Lines Between Possession and Obsession appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/vertigo/feed/ 4 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/man-on-fire/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/man-on-fire/#respond Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:03:27 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=51690   By Tim Pelan   “The kidnapping I didn’t want to make feel like a normal shootout. Right now, it […]

The post The Sheep That Got Found: ‘Man on Fire’ appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/man-on-fire/feed/ 0 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/devils-backbone/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/devils-backbone/#comments Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:12:32 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=39694   By Sven Mikulec   Three decades ago, the now-renowned Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro was at the beginning of […]

The post Cleansing of the Soul for a Clean Slate: Guillermo del Toro’s ‘The Devil’s Backbone’ at 25 appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/devils-backbone/feed/ 2 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/excalibur/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/excalibur/#respond Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:00:53 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=37566   By Tim Pelan   John Boorman’s 1981 fantastical retelling of Thomas Mallory’s Le Morte d’Arthur is, to quote Nicol […]

The post ‘The Past, Present and Future of Humanity’: John Boorman’s ‘Excalibur’ at 45 appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/excalibur/feed/ 0 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/12-angry-men-everlasting-testament-sidney-lumet-reginald-roses-filmmaking-prowess/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/12-angry-men-everlasting-testament-sidney-lumet-reginald-roses-filmmaking-prowess/#comments Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:09:18 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=31767   By Sven Mikulec   When esteemed actor Henry Fonda saw a successful teleplay called 12 Angry Men written for […]

The post ‘12 Angry Men’ at 69: The Everlasting Testament to Sidney Lumet and Reginald Rose’s Filmmaking Prowess appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/12-angry-men-everlasting-testament-sidney-lumet-reginald-roses-filmmaking-prowess/feed/ 1 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/presidents-men-following-money-become-one-remarkable-american-films-date/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/presidents-men-following-money-become-one-remarkable-american-films-date/#respond Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:03:24 +0000 http://www.cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=22683   By Sven Mikulec   When Robert Redford thought of an idea to make a film about the dogged efforts […]

The post ‘All the President’s Men’ at 50: Following the Money to Become One of the Most Remarkable American Films to Date appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/presidents-men-following-money-become-one-remarkable-american-films-date/feed/ 0 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/thief-michael-manns-cinema-debut-stole-worlds-attention/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/thief-michael-manns-cinema-debut-stole-worlds-attention/#comments Fri, 27 Mar 2026 13:10:07 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=30726   By Sven Mikulec   I started the film at 175 pounds and dropped to 150. We worked eighteen-hour days. […]

The post ‘Thief’ at 45: How Michael Mann’s Cinema Debut Stole the World’s Attention appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/thief-michael-manns-cinema-debut-stole-worlds-attention/feed/ 6 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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