Tim Pelan

Spies Like Us: Harry Palmer, the Everyday Hero
of ‘The Ipcress File’

  By Tim Pelan   The Ipcress File, both film adaptation by director Sidney J. Furie and producer Harry Saltzman,…

6 years ago

Christopher Nolan’s ‘Dunkirk’: A Miracle of Deliverance, Within a Miracle of Delivery

  By Tim Pelan When Christopher Nolan first announced Dunkirk as the title and subject of his next film after…

6 years ago

‘Do You Want to Live Forever?’—John Milius’ ‘Conan the Barbarian’

  By Tim Pelan   The Frankenstein's monster that is Justice League, the Warner Bros/DC superhero team-up film that has…

6 years ago

Lives On the Line: The Grubby Politics of Paul Schrader’s ‘Blue Collar’

  By Tim Pelan Paul Schrader got the chance to direct his first film after the success of Martin Scorsese's…

6 years ago

Intention Is Everything: Christopher McQuarrie’s ‘The Way of the Gun’

  By Tim Pelan   Christopher McQuarrie’s directorial debut after his Oscar-winning screenplay success with The Usual Suspects (1995), The…

6 years ago

Warren Beatty’s ‘Reds’: ‘A Long, Long Movie About a Communist Who Died’

  By Tim Pelan After the success of 1979's Heaven Can Wait (nine Oscar noms and co-directed by Warren Beatty…

7 years ago

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…

7 years ago

‘The Train’: John Frankenheimer’s Monumental Tribute to Wartime Railway Resistance

  By Tim Pelan   There’s a probably apocryphal quote attributed to Winston Churchill in WWII, in which the man…

7 years ago

The Faustian Fall Guy: Richard Rush’s ‘The Stunt Man’

  By Tim Pelan You've got to admire an opening sequence where an unconcerned, lazy dog lies in the middle…

7 years ago

Ballad for an Iron Coffin: Wolfgang Petersen’s
‘Das Boot’

  By Tim Pelan   You never see the enemy. Like Christopher Nolan's triptych timeline suspenser Dunkirk, both quarry and…

7 years ago