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The post Approaching Menace: The American Pathology of Martin Scorsese’s ‘Taxi Driver’—Revisiting a Masterpiece on Its 50th Anniversary appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/approaching-menace-the-american-pathology-of-martin-scorseses-taxi-driver/feed/ 3 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/casino/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/casino/#respond Sat, 22 Nov 2025 17:59:15 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=39761   By Tim Pelan   This story has to be on a big canvas. There’s no sense in my getting […]

The post Paradise Lost: How Martin Scorsese’s ‘Casino’ Charts the Rise and Fall of a Criminal Empire—Revisiting a Masterpiece on Its 30th Anniversary appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/casino/feed/ 0 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/midnight-run-martin-brests-cult-action-comedy-just-doesnt-seem-get-old/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/midnight-run-martin-brests-cult-action-comedy-just-doesnt-seem-get-old/#comments Sun, 20 Jul 2025 12:01:23 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=26194     By Sven Mikulec   When filmmaker Martin Brest developed a script for a buddy action comedy called Midnight […]

The post ‘Midnight Run’ at 37: Martin Brest’s Cult-Action Comedy that Just Doesn’t Seem to Get Old appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/midnight-run-martin-brests-cult-action-comedy-just-doesnt-seem-get-old/feed/ 1 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/duct-soup-the-daffy-dystopian-design-nightmare-of-terry-gilliams-brazil/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/duct-soup-the-daffy-dystopian-design-nightmare-of-terry-gilliams-brazil/#respond Sat, 22 Feb 2025 13:09:11 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=33311   By Tim Pelan   Brazil is the demented, surreal flip-side of George Orwell’s dystopian warning—1984 1/2 was director Terry Gilliam’s […]

The post The Chaotic Genius of ‘Brazil’: Terry Gilliam’s Dystopian Masterpiece at 40 appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/duct-soup-the-daffy-dystopian-design-nightmare-of-terry-gilliams-brazil/feed/ 0 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/angel-heart/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/angel-heart/#respond Sun, 05 Jun 2022 20:50:32 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=47189 Original artwork by Renato Casaro   June 5, 2022   By Sven Mikulec   “I think it’s obviously the fundamental […]

The post The Artistic Triumph of Sir Alan Parker’s Still Beating ‘Angel Heart’ appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/angel-heart/feed/ 0 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/once-upon-a-time-in-america/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/once-upon-a-time-in-america/#comments Sun, 03 Jan 2021 16:44:58 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=39970   By Koraljka Suton   I am not fascinated, as you say, by the myth of the West, or by […]

The post How ‘Once Upon a Time in America’ Became Sergio Leone’s Butchered Swan Song appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/once-upon-a-time-in-america/feed/ 1 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/the-irishman/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/the-irishman/#respond Tue, 24 Nov 2020 02:41:33 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=40182   By Theo Zenou This review contains spoilers.   The Irishman, Martin Scorsese’s hyped return to the gangster genre, is […]

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The post Scorsese On the Ropes: The ‘Kamikaze’ Film-Making of ‘Raging Bull’ appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/raging-bull/feed/ 1 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/the-untouchables/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/the-untouchables/#respond Thu, 10 Sep 2020 23:25:21 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=35176   By Tim Pelan   Screenwriter David Mamet came up with a Stanislavski quote to describe The Untouchables: “Tragedy is […]

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