Cleansing of the Soul for a Clean Slate: Guillermo del Toro’s ‘The Devil’s Backbone’
By Sven Mikulec Three decades ago, the now-renowned Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro was at the beginning of his…
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‘The Last of the Mohicans’: Michael Mann’s Riveting Love Story as the Formation of American Identity
By Sven Mikulec After a string of successes on television, having made a name for himself on projects such…
Terrence Malick’s ‘The Thin Red Line’: The Traumatic and Poetic Journey into the Heart of Man
By Sven Mikulec Twenty years have passed between Days of Heaven, Terrence Malick’s second feature film, and The Thin…
‘Notorious’: Hitchcock’s Mature and Intricate Espionage Masterpiece
By Sven Mikulec Sometime in August 1944, while Alfred Hitchcock was having lunch with David O. Selznick’s story editor…