Sven Mikulec

To Live and Die for Authenticity: How Friedkin Made One of the Best Films of the Eighties

  August 8, 2022   All of the films I have made, that I have chosen to make, are all…

2 years ago

Neil Marshall’s ‘Dog Soldiers’: A Force to Be Reckoned With

  July 17, 2022   I think there’s two kinds of films, something that has a big splash when they…

2 years ago

‘I Am Insane, and You Are My Insanity’: The Captivating World of Terry Gilliam’s ’12 Monkeys’

  June 12, 2022   By the time they got to me, they had tried proper directors and nobody wanted…

2 years ago

The Artistic Triumph of Sir Alan Parker’s Still Beating ‘Angel Heart’

Original artwork by Renato Casaro   June 5, 2022   By Sven Mikulec   “I think it's obviously the fundamental…

2 years ago

Neil Marshall’s ‘The Descent’: Humans Are the Scariest Things

  May 24, 2022   By Sven Mikulec When Dog Soldiers made a bloody splash across the UK back in 2002, this…

2 years ago

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…

5 years ago

‘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…

6 years ago

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…

7 years ago