‘And the Sea Will Grant Each Man New Hope, As Sleep Brings Dreams of Home’: John McTiernan’s ‘The Hunt for Red October’
By Tim Pelan There is a long and noble history in Hollywood of submarine war films. The two most…
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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 just…
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 Edinburgh…
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…
‘Marnie’: Hitchcock’s Controversial Exploration of Sexual Violence and the Complexity of the Human Psyche
The film that started out as a critical failure, labeled as the weakest link in the maestro’s string of high-quality…