Tim Pelan

Rats In the Attic: William Friedkin’s ‘The Exorcist’

  By Tim Pelan   Forty-five years after its powerful debut, and with all the attendant publicity, analysis and second-hand…

3 years ago

Subject to the Requirements of the Service: Peter Weir’s ‘Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World’

    By Tim Pelan   Asked by Debbie Lynn Elias of Behind The Lens Online on what compels the…

3 years ago

Scorsese On the Ropes: The ‘Kamikaze’ Film-Making of ‘Raging Bull’

  By Tim Pelan   Scorsese’s Raging Bull is not your dad's boxing movie. It's certainly not a story of…

3 years ago

The Greater the Truth, the Greater the Damage: ‘The Insider,’ Michael Mann’s White-Collar Thrill Ride of Corporate Malfeasance

    By Tim Pelan   Few filmmakers can take a whistle-blowing dramatization of real life potentially dusty legal shenanigans…

3 years ago

Play for Play: How The Color of Money’s ‘One For Them’ Assignment Reignited Martin Scorsese’s Hunger for the Work

  By Tim Pelan   After 'The Last Temptation' was cancelled in ’83, I had to get myself back in…

4 years ago

40 Years of Hurt, Face-Hugging Dreams of Breathing: Ridley Scott’s ‘Alien’

Alien poster art by Brian Taylor   By Tim Pelan   Ripley's words to the Xenomorph in Alien 3 sum…

4 years ago

To the Wonder: The Lyrical Appeal and Influence of Richard Donner’s ‘Superman’

  By Tim Pelan   Richard Donner, director of The Omen, the Lethal Weapon series, The Goonies, but oh so…

4 years ago

‘Miller’s Crossing’ at 30: A Lamentation of Losers by the Coen Brothers

  By Tim Pelan   After the success of Raising Arizona, Joel and Ethan Coen were given the chance to…

4 years ago

‘Goodfellas’: Martin Scorsese’s Anthropological Goodlife Through a Lens

Photographed by Barry Wetcher © Warner Bros.   By Tim Pelan   As far back as I can remember, director…

4 years ago