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The Artistic Triumph of Sir Alan Parker’s Still Beating ‘Angel Heart’

Original artwork by Renato Casaro   June 5, 2022   By Sven Mikulec   “I think it's obviously the fundamental…

2 years ago

How ‘Once Upon a Time in America’ Became Sergio Leone’s Butchered Swan Song

  By Koraljka Suton   I am not fascinated, as you say, by the myth of the West, or by…

3 years ago

And Unto Dust We Shall Return: On Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Irishman’

  By Theo Zenou This review contains spoilers.   The Irishman, Martin Scorsese’s hyped return to the gangster genre, is…

3 years ago

Scorsese On the Ropes: The ‘Kamikaze’ Film-Making of ‘Raging Bull’

  By Tim Pelan   Scorsese’s Raging Bull is not your dad's boxing movie. It's certainly not a story of…

3 years ago

Gang Wars, the Prohibition Menace: Brian De Palma’s ‘The Untouchables’

  By Tim Pelan   Screenwriter David Mamet came up with a Stanislavski quote to describe The Untouchables: “Tragedy is…

4 years ago

Approaching Menace: The American Pathology of Martin Scorsese’s ‘Taxi Driver’

Taxi Driver poster art by Tony Stella https://www.tony-stella.com/   Loneliness has followed me my whole life, everywhere. In bars, in…

4 years ago

‘Heat’ at 27: Michael Mann’s Meticulous Masterpiece of Both Style and Substance That Transcends Genre

Heat poster art by Tony Stella, https://www.tony-stella.com/   By Koraljka Suton   A guy told me one time, “Don't let…

4 years ago

Paradise Lost: How Martin Scorsese’s ‘Casino’ Charts the Rise and Fall of a Criminal Empire

  By Tim Pelan   This story has to be on a big canvas. There’s no sense in my getting…

4 years ago

You’re Gonna Be Redeemed: The Jersey Noir and Western Fable of James Mangold’s ‘Cop Land’

April 2, 2019   By Travis Woods   A rotating wire bookrack stands in a shaded corner of the used…

5 years ago

God’s Lonely Funny Man: Martin Scorsese’s ‘The King of Comedy’ and America’s Pathological Obsession with Fame

  By Tim Pelan   In this age of television wannabes and quick fix celebs, it is fitting to look…

5 years ago