https://cinephiliabeyond.org Films and Filmmaking Wed, 24 Jun 2026 20:53:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/cropped-007_w-1-32x32.jpg https://cinephiliabeyond.org 32 32 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/mccabe-mrs-miller/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/mccabe-mrs-miller/#comments Wed, 24 Jun 2026 09:16:41 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=39576   By Koraljka Suton   The legendary director Robert Altman was given an Academy Honorary Award in 2006, “in recognition of […]

The post How Robert Altman’s Anti-Western Classic ‘McCabe & Mrs. Miller’ Aged Like Fine Wine appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/mccabe-mrs-miller/feed/ 2 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/catch-me-if-you-can/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/catch-me-if-you-can/#respond Thu, 25 Dec 2025 22:50:52 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=50622 Catch Me If You Can poster art by Mike Pappa   By Koraljka Suton   Part of the inspiration of […]

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/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/network/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/network/#respond Thu, 27 Nov 2025 16:40:02 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=40498   By Koraljka Suton   Once it opened, everybody kept saying, ‘Oh, what a brilliant satire.’ But Paddy and I […]

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/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/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 […]

The post ‘Gravity’ at 12: The Pain of Isolation and the Importance of Connection in the Face of Adversity appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/gravity/feed/ 0 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/after-hours/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/after-hours/#comments Thu, 11 Sep 2025 21:28:39 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=47485   By Koraljka Suton   ‘After Hours’ was like an independent film. It was shorter and cheaper. I just wanted […]

The post ‘After Hours’ at 40: Celebrating Scorsese’s Kafka-Inspired New York Odyssey appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/after-hours/feed/ 1 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/saving-private-ryan-spielbergs-groundbreaking-wwii-gem-that-redefined-the-war-film-genre/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/saving-private-ryan-spielbergs-groundbreaking-wwii-gem-that-redefined-the-war-film-genre/#respond Tue, 19 Aug 2025 23:56:38 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=60085   By Koraljka Suton   Born in 1946 in Ohio to a Jewish family, Steven Spielberg has grown to become […]

The post ‘Saving Private Ryan’: Spielberg’s Groundbreaking WWII Gem That Redefined the War Film Genre appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/saving-private-ryan-spielbergs-groundbreaking-wwii-gem-that-redefined-the-war-film-genre/feed/ 0