Tim Pelan

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…

4 years ago

Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘Hard Eight’, AKA ‘Sydney’: “It’s Always Good to Meet a New Friend”

Hard Eight, AKA Sydney poster art by Rich Kelly, https://www.rfkelly.com/hard-eight   By Tim Pelan Paul Thomas Anderson's debut film Hard…

4 years ago

Lived All Our Best Times Left With the Worst: Christopher Nolan’s ‘Memento’

  By Tim Pelan   Fractured narrative, skewed perception, compressed timelines—director/writer Christopher Nolan won't lead his audience in a straight…

4 years ago

“No One Is Just Anything”: In William Friedkin’s ‘Sorcerer’, Four Reduced Men Must Gamble with Life to Give It Value

Sorcerer original motion picture soundtrack cover art by Tony Stella, https://www.tony-stella.com/   By Tim Pelan   The film became an…

4 years ago

“We Translate Every Experience into the Same Old Codes”: In Michelangelo Antonioni’s ‘The Passenger,’ Jack Nicholson Attempts a Transference of Self

Artwork for Carlotta Films' Ultra Collector's Edition Blu-Ray of The Passenger by Robert Sammelin   By Tim Pelan   Michelangelo…

4 years ago

Carol Reed’s ‘Odd Man Out’—Too Long In ‘The Third Man’s Shadow?

  By Tim Pelan   I liked the novel and went to Belfast to ask F. L. Green if he'd…

4 years ago

Approaching Menace: The American Pathology of Martin Scorsese’s ‘Taxi Driver’

Taxi Driver poster art by Tony Stella https://www.tony-stella.com/   Loneliness has followed me my whole life, everywhere. In bars, in…

4 years ago

Run Through the Jungian: Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Full Metal Jacket’, a Phenomenological Treatise on War

  By Tim Pelan   “It's not pro-war or anti-war. It's just the way things are,” Stanley Kubrick said of…

4 years ago