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Life and Death in a Northern Town: Mike Hodges’ ‘Get Carter’

  By Tim Pelan Soon after its release in 1972, the film was banished to the dark shadows of cult…

4 years ago

An Agency of Chaos: Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Dark Knight’

Photographed by Stephen Vaughan © Warner Bros., Legendary Entertainment, Syncopy, DC Comics   By Tim Pelan In October 2005, shortly…

5 years ago

Empire’s End: John Huston’s ‘The Man
Who Would Be King’

  By Tim Pelan   On the occasion of John Huston's The Man Who Would Be King screening at the…

5 years ago

Spies Like Us: Harry Palmer, the Everyday Hero
of ‘The Ipcress File’

  By Tim Pelan   The Ipcress File, both film adaptation by director Sidney J. Furie and producer Harry Saltzman,…

6 years ago

Jeeps in the Orchard: The Logistical “Laters” of Attenborough’s ‘A Bridge Too Far’

  By Tim Pelan British war cinema is preoccupied, it seems, with stiff-upper-lipped defeat—from innumerable plucky POW features to the…

7 years ago

‘Dressed to Kill’: Brian De Palma’s Razor-Sharp, Dreamlike Erotic Thriller

  By Sven Mikulec With its highly stylized images of violence, exceptional acting performances from Nancy Allen and Michael Caine,…

8 years ago

‘Get Carter’: Why Mike Hodges’ Uncompromising Gangster Film Gained Cult Following

  By Sven Mikulec Intent on making a great British gangster film, producer Michael Klinger purchased the rights to Ted…

9 years ago