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Duct Soup: The Daffy, Dystopian Design Nightmare of Terry Gilliam’s ‘Brazil’

  By Tim Pelan Brazil is the demented, surreal flip-side of George Orwell’s dystopian warning—1984 1/2 was director Terry Gilliam’s originally…

6 years ago

‘Midnight Run’: Martin Brest’s Cult-Action Comedy that Just Doesn’t Seem to Get Old

    By Sven Mikulec   When filmmaker Martin Brest developed a script for a buddy action comedy called Midnight…

7 years ago

Michael Mann’s ‘Heat’: A Complex, Stylistically Supreme Candidate for One of the Most Impressive Films of the Nineties

  By Sven Mikulec Michael Mann's crime thriller Heat was a project whose development path started all the way back…

8 years ago

‘Cape Fear’: How Scorsese Added Complexity and Humanity to a Beloved Classic

  By Sven Mikulec   Back in 1962, J. Lee Thompson made a cinematic adaptation of John D. MacDonald's novel…

9 years ago

Martin Scorsese’s ‘Taxi Driver’ is the turning point in our lives in terms of film appreciation and education

Martin Scorsese’s 74th birthday seems like a perfect opportunity to float in our minds to the streets of New York,…

9 years ago

‘Taxi Driver’: God’s Lonely POV

God’s Lonely POV by Will McCrabb In the last act of Martin Scorsese's masterpiece Taxi Driver there is the ultimate…

9 years ago

“Michael Cimino’s ‘The Deer Hunter’ is one of the most emotionally shattering films ever made”

  By Sven Mikulec   Try not to look for symbolism in the movie, because there is none. There’s no…

10 years ago

“As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster”

As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster, said Ray Liotta, and the rest…

10 years ago