Robert Mitchum

‘Out of the Past’: The Quintessential Film Noir that Launched Robert Mitchum and Kirk Douglas’ Careers

  By Sven Mikulec   Seventy years since its release, Out of the Past has long enjoyed an established place…

3 years ago

‘The Friends of Eddie Coyle’: Peter Yates’ Crime Masterpiece that Chose to Rely on a Completely Different Kind of Spectacle

  By Sven Mikulec   Published in January 1973, George V. Higgins’ crime novel The Friends of Eddie Coyle was…

6 years ago

Sydney Pollack’s ‘The Yakuza’: The Merging of Two Worlds in a Timeless Gangster Classic

  By Sven Mikulec   The significance of Sydney Pollack's 1974 neo-noir gangster film The Yakuza lies not only its…

9 years ago