Art Spiegelman’s ‘Maus’: More Than Just “The Holocaust Comic”
Gregory Paul Silber discusses the deeper themes beyond the Holocaust in Art Spiegelman's seminal comic, 'Maus'.
Gregory Paul Silber discusses the deeper themes beyond the Holocaust in Art Spiegelman's seminal comic, 'Maus'.
Writer and critic Gregory Paul Silber explores the Jewish-American influence on the comics industry and ironic lack of Chanukah comics during the holidays
Raging Bull is not your dad’s boxing movie. It’s certainly not a story of conventional redemption or hope overcoming the odds...
From Aleister Crowley to the Gorillaz, writer Avery Kaplan explores the ways that numerology has influenced culture across the centuries.
In 1997, an ambitious 26-year-old called Paul Thomas Anderson made Boogie Nights, his sophomore directing effort…
What words would YOU use to describe art that is indescribable? It’s a challenge! In my biography of Paul Lehr (2009) I wrote that he was among the...
Tim Pelan examines Mike Hodges's classic 1972 British crime movie, 'Get Carter'
While he was teaching screenwriting at the UCLA Film School, American director and screenwriter Paul Schrader got a character idea during one of his...
American director and screenwriter Paul Schrader grew up in a strict Calvinist family in Grand Rapids, Michigan...
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...
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 ...
When I first saw Paul Gulacy's work I hated it. I think it was the Terminator: Secondary Objectives series he penciled...
French secret agent called Josselin Beaumont was sent to assassinate an African dictator, but as he set out on...
Before Black Widow was humanized on screen in the MCU Gulacy did it here with this portfolio. She's not a...
I'm not sure if these Swamp Thing images by Gulacy work if I don't know it's Gulacy who did them...
In 1978, an actor named Harrison Ford was getting his first real taste of movie stardom. He had just portrayed intergalactic smuggler Han Solo in George...
An exploration of the independent mavericks, HandMade Films, that gave us some of the most iconic British crime films of the 1970s and 1980s.
"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...
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 ...
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 ...
Introducing The Stacks Reader Series and Alex Belth. "I first met Alex Belth almost a decade ago. There was no way I couldn’t like him instantly..."
Honoring the memory of artist Steve Lightle, who's art defined superheroes for an entire generation.
You can keep your White Christmas and Holiday Inn!
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...
An interview and career retrospective with acclaimed storyteller and artist Dave McKean.
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 ...
That is no country for old men. The young In one another’s arms, birds in the trees...
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’ ...
Film writer and critic Matt Belenky discusses Christopher McQuirre's neo-western action film 'The Way of the Gun'
With today marking 40 years of Cronenberg's iconic "Scanners", essayist Kim Winters takes a look at how it has aged in a contemporary digital atmosphere.
Burt Lancaster is one of the greatest actors to ever appear in films, but he didn’t hold all his work in high esteem. He is said to have looked down...
In 1942, horror movie audiences were treated to what with some historical hindsight now seems clear as one of the greatest horror movies ever made...
Anyone who has had an interest in heroic fantasy in the 1970s -1980s would surely recognize the name of Stephen Fabian ...
An essay exploring the ways in which the Alien movie franchise exposes the horrors of the working class.
Michael Mann’s 2006 big screen revamp of 1980s groundbreaking TV show Miami Vice (Brandon Tartikoff, NBC’s entertainment president scribbled “MTV cops” ...
A look into the history behind lesbian and bisexual themes in mid-century pulp fiction paperbacks.
The interaction between and among human beings is the only story worth telling.
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.’
Artist and writer Nick Abadzis sits down to rehash the beginnings of both his career and his highly under-recognized British comic strip, Hugo Tate.
Tony Curtis had to fight really hard to get the role of Falco in Alexander Mackendrick's 'Sweet Smell of Success' …
Photographer and director Neil Krug takes a personal look at the work of Academy award-winning director Elio Petri
Multiple award-winning science fiction author and genre scholar Adam Roberts breaks down his ultimate definition of "Science Fiction."
Following his great artistic and financial triumph, 'A Woman Under the Influence', the iconic American independent filmmaker John Cassavetes...
The story of filmmaker Phil Joanou’s breakthrough in the movie business is basically a pitch-perfect...
A contemporary American renaissance man, David Mamet has had an incredibly rich and fulfilling career spanning...
At the beginning of the seventies, American filmmaker William Friedkin made two everlasting...
Having experienced his screenwriting debut with Hickey & Boggs in 1972, Walter Hill went on to pen several...
Sven Mikulec looks at the history and legacy of Alan Parker's 'Angel Heart'
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 ...
The beginning of Minority Report, Steven Spielberg’s thrilling sci-fi noir from 2002, is closely connected to another science fiction classic...
Jean-Pierre Melville: Life and Work of a Groundbreaking Filmmaking Poet by Sven Mikulec
Cinematographer Karim Hussain csc's appreciation of the Louma Crane
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
Sven Mikulec When it comes to filmmakers who are, among other things, distinguished for their strong and passionate connection…
Having heard his friend complain about her boyfriend for what seemed to be a hundredth time,…
Writer Annabel Paulsen discusses the psychological and emotional impact of Alison Bechdel's acclaimed graphic novel.
Writer and scholar Annabel Paulsen explores the inherently queer themes of honky tonk music in the 1985 lesbian classic film Desert Hearts.
The legendary director Robert Altman was given an Academy Honorary Award in 2006, “in recognition of a career that has repeatedly reinvented...
February, 1965: a snowy day in the Quantock Hills of Somerset. 32-year-old John Boorman was hard at work on his debut feature, 'Catch Us If You Can'...
Part two of NeoText's interview with the incomparable comics creator Eddie Campbell.
George Lucas’ Star Wars in 1977 led to a boom of hasty space opera knock-offs, but there had always been a dogged...
The stories behind director John Boorman and screenwriter Alexander Jacobs brilliant retelling of Donald Westlake's THE HUNTER
A deep dive conversation between author Michael Tisserand and Howard Chaykin, whose life and career offer an oral history of American comics.