Jean-Pierre Melville: Life And Work Of A Groundbreaking Filmmaking Poet
Jean-Pierre Melville: Life and Work of a Groundbreaking Filmmaking Poet by Sven Mikulec
Jean-Pierre Melville: Life and Work of a Groundbreaking Filmmaking Poet by Sven Mikulec
“Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner."
Tim Pelan examines Mike Hodges's classic 1972 British crime movie, 'Get Carter'
After the success of *The Exorcist,* director William Friedkin teamed up with *The Wild Bunch* screenwriter Walon Green for the groundbreaking *Sorcerer*
Raging Bull is not your dad’s boxing movie. It’s certainly not a story of conventional redemption or hope overcoming the odds...
The beginning of Minority Report, Steven Spielberg’s thrilling sci-fi noir from 2002, is closely connected to another science fiction classic...
That is no country for old men. The young In one another’s arms, birds in the trees...
In 1986, Michael Mann’s 'Manhunter' elevated schlock-horror to a thoughtful, stylised, forensically psychological level, introducing the concept of a ...
The idea originated in a conversation between me and Irving Kirshner. We were talking about espionage, and he said that most people thought the safest ...
Forty-five years after its powerful debut, and with all the attendant publicity, analysis and second-hand knowledge, from satire to theological debate,…
The stories behind director John Boorman and screenwriter Alexander Jacobs brilliant retelling of Donald Westlake's THE HUNTER
Michael Mann’s 2006 big screen revamp of 1980s groundbreaking TV show Miami Vice (Brandon Tartikoff, NBC’s entertainment president scribbled “MTV cops” ...
After a string of successes on television, having made a name for himself on projects such as Starsky and Hutch> and Police Story, Michael Mann ...
Published in January 1973, George V. Higgins’ crime novel The Friends of Eddie Coyle was well received by critics and the public, featuring a story ...
After the success of 'Raising Arizona', Joel and Ethan Coen were given the chance to do something a little more ambitious, with a budget of somewhere...
The legendary director Robert Altman was given an Academy Honorary Award in 2006, “in recognition of a career that has repeatedly reinvented...
This story has to be on a big canvas. There’s no sense in my getting Bob De Niro and Joe Pesci and making a 90-minute picture about only one aspect ...
Carol Reed’s 'The Third Man' might just be as visually stimulating as classic films get….
TELEPOD 1: STATHIS He watches Her, trembling and nerve-twitched, eyes darting, lips pulled back over protruding…
“I think I was always controversial, provocative. But I can’t help it. I have to go there. It’s my nature. It’s my father’s nature, too..."
There’s an old rule among directors that you see a film in its totality about four times. The first is when you really decide you love the story and you...
Once it opened, everybody kept saying, ‘Oh, what a brilliant satire.’ But Paddy and I always said, ‘This isn’t satire, it’s sheer reportage.’
Screenwriter David Mamet came up with a Stanislavski quote to describe The Untouchables: “Tragedy is just heightened melodrama.” Brian De Palma, director..
A friend of mine, an American painter living in London, had read the book and suggested that I look at it. I read it and thought ‘If I’m going to make a...
If you were to compile a list of the most impressive and exhilarating car chases in the history of the motion pictures, it’s more than likely that one ...
In 1997, an ambitious 26-year-old called Paul Thomas Anderson made Boogie Nights, his sophomore directing effort…
The most personal of all films in Francis Ford Coppola’s repertoire was born between two big projects that helped Coppola gain the reputation he enjoys ...
Twenty-one years on, David Fincher’s The Game (1997) has come to be seen as a prescient, schadenfreude look at the gulf between us and the “one ...
As far back as I can remember, director Martin Scorsese has been synonymous with wiseguys, mooks, goombahs, and spin-on-a-dime funny-how guys delivering...
Having heard his friend complain about her boyfriend for what seemed to be a hundredth time,…
"I came to it because of Ellroy. When I read ‘L.A. Confidential,’ I just got hooked on the characters, got caught up emotionally in their individual...
Before Warner Bros. decided to take a chance and hire him to make The Wild Bunch, the classic revisionist western that would completely revitalize his ...
The Coen brothers’ critically acclaimed Miller’s Crossing can be easily studied in two distinct ways. Firstly, it’s one hell of…
People often exaggerate when they talk about films. They get carried away, leaving the cinema emotionally stirred and too impressed to ...
It’s difficult to think of a horror film that caused so much controversy and polarized the audience to this degree…
Confidently riding the waves generated by his highly successful satirical black comedy M*A*S*H, Robert Altman easily secured a directing job…
He paints with people, Jake Gyllenhaal said of David Fincher after the two had worked together on Zodiac. “It’s tough…
Tony Curtis had to fight really hard to get the role of Falco in Alexander Mackendrick's 'Sweet Smell of Success' …
John Schlesinger’s 1969 classic Midnight Cowboy is one of those films that linger around our minds, that we get a sentimental…
It’s said that a movie is made three times: once through a script, once on set, and finally in the…
Sven Mikulec looks at the history and legacy of Alan Parker's 'Angel Heart'
Only the amazing reaction that that picture has gotten, because at the time I was dreadfully unhappy with the fact that I was going to be doing another ...
Fractured narrative, skewed perception, compressed timelines—director/writer Christopher Nolan won’t lead his audience in a straight line…
Meanwhile, the mystique of ‘Apocalypse Now’ lives on. The Marine Corps invited me to Camp Pendleton to watch a demonstration of an aerial ...
Trying to catch a break from all the Star Wars hype, in the spring of 1977, George Lucas was resting on a Hawaiian beach, building sand castles with ...
Few films permeate the gestalt consciousness like Star Wars (“I am your father”, “Use the Force”…
Robert Graysmith knew he was a guy on the sidelines of this story. He wanted to be a part of it and he made himself a part of it. He was doing it on his...
Asked by Debbie Lynn Elias of Behind The Lens Online on what compels the director Peter Weir to film such varied stories ...
What excited the general public and outraged horrified television moguls as a razor-sharp satire in 1976, a film promoted as outrageous, hasn’t lost its...
Filmmaker Carol Reed, hailed as one of the greatest U.K. directors, became famous in the late 1930s and 1940s with motion pictures such as Night Train ...
In 1984, one film confidently rode through Cannes, sweeping prizes from all three juries at the most respected film festival in the world. Wim Wenders’ ...
Brazil is the demented, surreal flip-side of George Orwell’s dystopian warning—"1984 1/2" was director Terry Gilliam’s originally…
Sven Mikulec When it comes to filmmakers who are, among other things, distinguished for their strong and passionate connection…
The early-to-mid 1980s gave rise to a string of so-called “rebel” films, with one such project being the 1984 romantic...
Following his great artistic and financial triumph, 'A Woman Under the Influence', the iconic American independent filmmaker John Cassavetes...
As the final shot of Chris Marker’s iconic 'La Jetée' faded to black, screenwriter Janet Peoples turned to her husband and writing partner David ...
Revered for his visual style, French New Wave director Jacques Demy received international acclaim thanks to his 1964...
Independent filmmaker John Sayles made his feature debut with the 1980 drama "Return of the Secaucus 7"...
In 1978, American filmmaker John Milius, whose screenwriting work on Apocalypse Now would go on to earn him an Oscar...
The 1978 neo-noir mystery thriller Eyes of Laura Mars started out as a treatment written by John Carpenter who...
Famous for neo-noirs such as King of New York (1990) and Bad Lieutenant (1992), as well as independent films like...
The year is 2022, and the human race is on the verge of destruction after decades of overpopulation, hunger...
French secret agent called Josselin Beaumont was sent to assassinate an African dictator, but as he set out on...
Based on the novel written by Raf Vallet, Death of a Corrupt Man (Mort d'un pourri in the original) is a...
Inspired by Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo, Lawrence Kasdan wrote the screenplay for what would later become The Bodyguard...
From the director of They Live by Night, Rebel Without a Cause and The Savage Innocents, Nicholas Ray, On...
When men, even unknowingly, are to meet one day, whatever may befall each, whatever the diverging paths, on the...
Six years after they created David and Lisa, a film based on Theodore Isaac Rubin’s novella that brought them Academy...
The great Clint Eastwood started his directorial career back in 1971 with Play Misty for Me, and by the time he got...
Canadian filmmaker Daniel Petrie’s 1976 drama Lifeguard is a story about a mature man working as a lifeguard on a...
Scripted by its director, Jacques Deray, joining forces with Bunuel’s frequent collaborator Jean-Claude Carrière...
A prison convict called Joe Sullivan ends up behind bars after taking the fall for a mobster who owes him his freedom, but...
One of the most important and influential films of the sixties, Jean-Pierre Melville’s brilliantly atmospheric neo-noir...
After having made the international blockbuster Mission Impossible in 1996, revered filmmaker Brian De Palma directed...
The year 1983 saw the release of Tony Scott’s first feature film called The Hunger, an erotic horror loosely based on...
In 2002, filmmaker Brian De Palma’s Femme Fatale flopped at the box office, earning back not even half of what was...
After having made an erotic horror film starring David Bowie (The Hunger (1983)), a culturally significant box office hit...
Filmmaker Michael Cimino garnered both fame and acclaim thanks to his 1978 Academy Award-winning war movie The...
After debuting as a director with his 1984 romantic drama Reckless, filmmaker James Foley made his second feature...
Actor, director, screenwriter, producer. Multiple Academy Award-nominee John Cassavetes did it all. And was undeniably good...
Workprints, rough versions of films before the editing process kicks in and trims out all…
At the beginning of the seventies, American filmmaker William Friedkin made two everlasting...
You think I’m crazy? You call me crazy, you think I’m crazy? You wanna see crazy?…