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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'.
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cultureWhere Are All The Chanukah Comics?!
Writer and critic Gregory Paul Silber explores the Jewish-American influence on the comics industry and ironic lack of Chanukah comics during the holidays
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cultureScorsese On the Ropes: The ‘Kamikaze’ Film-Making of ‘Raging Bull’
Raging Bull is not your dad’s boxing movie. It’s certainly not a story of conventional redemption or hope overcoming the odds...
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cultureAdding it Up: A Discussion of Numerology in Culture
From Aleister Crowley to the Gorillaz, writer Avery Kaplan explores the ways that numerology has influenced culture across the centuries.
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culture‘Magnolia’: Paul Thomas Anderson’s Absorbing Mosaic of Compassion, Humanity and the Importance of Forgiveness
In 1997, an ambitious 26-year-old called Paul Thomas Anderson made Boogie Nights, his sophomore directing effort…
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culturePaul Lehr: Unexpected Rhythms
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...
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cultureLife And Death In A Northern Town: Mike Hodges’ ‘Get Carter’
Tim Pelan examines Mike Hodges's classic 1972 British crime movie, 'Get Carter'
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culture‘American Gigolo’ (1980): Paul Schrader’s Character Study on Loneliness that Established Richard Gere as a Leading Man
While he was teaching screenwriting at the UCLA Film School, American director and screenwriter Paul Schrader got a character idea during one of his...
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culturePaul Schrader’s ‘Hardcore’ (1979): A Gripping Juxtaposition of Religious Rigidity and Unabashed Sexuality
American director and screenwriter Paul Schrader grew up in a strict Calvinist family in Grand Rapids, Michigan...
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culture‘Goodfellas’ at 30: Martin Scorsese’s Anthropological Goodlife Through a Lens
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...
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culture‘The Friends of Eddie Coyle’: Peter Yates’ Crime Masterpiece that Chose to Rely on a Completely Different Kind of Spectacle
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 ...
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cultureA Paul Gulacy Cover Gallery
When I first saw Paul Gulacy's work I hated it. I think it was the Terminator: Secondary Objectives series he penciled...
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cultureClick-In Movies: The Professional (1981)
French secret agent called Josselin Beaumont was sent to assassinate an African dictator, but as he set out on...
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culturePaul Gulacy on Black Widow
Before Black Widow was humanized on screen in the MCU Gulacy did it here with this portfolio. She's not a...
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culturePaul Gulacy on Swamp Thing
I'm not sure if these Swamp Thing images by Gulacy work if I don't know it's Gulacy who did them...
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cultureHanover Street: The Lost Gem from the Prime of Harrison Ford’s Career
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...
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cultureHandMade Crime
An exploration of the independent mavericks, HandMade Films, that gave us some of the most iconic British crime films of the 1970s and 1980s.
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cultureNoir Cut to Look of the Period, Not About the Period: The Sunny, Seedy ’50’s Underbelly of Curtis Hanson’s ‘L.A. Confidential’
"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...
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culture‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’: Lucas and Spielberg’s Epitome of Action-Adventure Films Still Waiting to Be Surpassed
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 ...
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culture‘Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia’: The Story of the Great Sam Peckinpah’s Most Personal Film
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 ...
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cultureNothing Stranger Than Truth
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..."
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cultureRemembering Steve Lightle
Honoring the memory of artist Steve Lightle, who's art defined superheroes for an entire generation.
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culture“You there! What day is it?”: Why The Muppet Christmas Carol is the Ultimate Holiday Film
You can keep your White Christmas and Holiday Inn!
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culture‘Sweet Smell of Success’: A Visceral and Vicious Depiction of the Evil that Power-Hungry Men Do
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...
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cultureThe Art of Creating Cages: A Conversation with Dave McKean
An interview and career retrospective with acclaimed storyteller and artist Dave McKean.
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cultureFincher’s Zodiac: A Suspenseful and Thrilling Combination of Police Procedural and Newspaper Film That Masterfully Chronicles the Progression of Obsession
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...
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cultureSubject to the Requirements of the Service: Peter Weir’s ‘Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World’
Asked by Debbie Lynn Elias of Behind The Lens Online on what compels the director Peter Weir to film such varied stories ...
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culture‘No Country for Old Men’: The Coen Brothers and Cormac McCarthy’s Ruthless Examination of Life
That is no country for old men. The young In one another’s arms, birds in the trees...
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culture‘Paris, Texas’: Wim Wenders’ Film of Extraordinary Beauty and Irresistibility
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’ ...
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culture‘The Way of the Gun’ Proves There’s Still a Country For Old Men
Film writer and critic Matt Belenky discusses Christopher McQuirre's neo-western action film 'The Way of the Gun'
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culture“No Room For Darryl”: Re-Examining ‘Scanners’ In The Digital Age
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.
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cultureScorpio: Michael Winner’s Cynical Thriller About A Spy With A Death Wish
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...
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cultureCat Peoples: Feline Femme Fatales On Film
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...
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cultureStephen Fabian: Story-Telling Artist
Anyone who has had an interest in heroic fantasy in the 1970s -1980s would surely recognize the name of Stephen Fabian ...
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culture“Game Over, Man”: The Alien Franchise as Working Class Horror
An essay exploring the ways in which the Alien movie franchise exposes the horrors of the working class.
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cultureTake It to the Limit One More Time: Michael Mann’s ‘Miami Vice’
Michael Mann’s 2006 big screen revamp of 1980s groundbreaking TV show Miami Vice (Brandon Tartikoff, NBC’s entertainment president scribbled “MTV cops” ...
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cultureNo Adam for Eve: The Quiet History of Lesbian Pulp Fiction
A look into the history behind lesbian and bisexual themes in mid-century pulp fiction paperbacks.
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cultureThe Jukebox Existentialism of Stirling Silliphant
The interaction between and among human beings is the only story worth telling.
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culture‘Network’: Sidney Lumet and Paddy Chayefsky’s Gruesome Prophecy Turned Reality
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.’
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cultureNick Abadzis revisits his beginnings with Hugo Tate…with Hugo Tate.
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.
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culture‘Sweet Smell of Success’, Alexander Mackendrick’s Most Accomplished Film that Hasn’t Aged a Day
Tony Curtis had to fight really hard to get the role of Falco in Alexander Mackendrick's 'Sweet Smell of Success' …
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culture“A Quiet Place for Elio”
Photographer and director Neil Krug takes a personal look at the work of Academy award-winning director Elio Petri
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cultureHow I Define Science Fiction
Multiple award-winning science fiction author and genre scholar Adam Roberts breaks down his ultimate definition of "Science Fiction."
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cultureThe Killing of a Chinese Bookie: Cassavetes’ Deeply Personal Foray into ‘Sheer Entertainment’
Following his great artistic and financial triumph, 'A Woman Under the Influence', the iconic American independent filmmaker John Cassavetes...
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cultureThe Man Who Shot Hell’s Kitchen: The Story of Phil Joanou’s ‘State of Grace’
The story of filmmaker Phil Joanou’s breakthrough in the movie business is basically a pitch-perfect...
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cultureDavid Mamet’s ‘Spartan’: Live by the Code, Film by the Code
A contemporary American renaissance man, David Mamet has had an incredibly rich and fulfilling career spanning...
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cultureTo Live and Die for Authenticity: How Friedkin Made One of the Best Films of the Eighties
At the beginning of the seventies, American filmmaker William Friedkin made two everlasting...
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culture‘The Driver’: Walter Hill Behind the Wheel of a Glorious Experiment
Having experienced his screenwriting debut with Hickey & Boggs in 1972, Walter Hill went on to pen several...
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cultureThe Artistic Triumph of Sir Alan Parker’s Still Beating ‘Angel Heart’
Sven Mikulec looks at the history and legacy of Alan Parker's 'Angel Heart'
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culture‘I Am Insane, and You Are My Insanity’: The Captivating World of Terry Gilliam’s ‘12 Monkeys’
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 ...
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culture‘Minority Report’: Steven Spielberg’s Proof that You Don’t Need to Sacrifice Substance to Produce Spectacle
The beginning of Minority Report, Steven Spielberg’s thrilling sci-fi noir from 2002, is closely connected to another science fiction classic...
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cultureJean-Pierre Melville: Life And Work Of A Groundbreaking Filmmaking Poet
Jean-Pierre Melville: Life and Work of a Groundbreaking Filmmaking Poet by Sven Mikulec
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cultureIn The Shadow Of The Crane
Cinematographer Karim Hussain csc's appreciation of the Louma Crane
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culture‘The Last of the Mohicans’: Michael Mann’s Riveting Love Story as the Formation of American Identity
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 ...
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culture‘To Live and Die in L.A.’: The Intelligent, Authentic Thriller as One of the Highlights of Friedkin’s Career
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 ...
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cultureSidney Lumet and Paddy Chayevsky’s ‘Network’: The Grim Prophecy that Was Once Just Brilliant Satire
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...
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cultureFrancis Ford Coppola and Brian De Palma: ‘The Conversation’ Between Two Great Filmmakers
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 ...
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cultureAbel Ferrara’s ‘King of New York’ gained a true, cult reputation of a legitimate gangster classic
Sven Mikulec When it comes to filmmakers who are, among other things, distinguished for their strong and passionate connection…
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cultureEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: An Unforgettable and Heartbreaking Exploration of Love, Human Beings and the Nature of Memory
Having heard his friend complain about her boyfriend for what seemed to be a hundredth time,…
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cultureThe Artful Construction of Emotional Dissonance in Alison Bechdel’s ‘Fun Home’
Writer Annabel Paulsen discusses the psychological and emotional impact of Alison Bechdel's acclaimed graphic novel.
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cultureThe Honky Tonk Romance of ‘Desert Hearts’
Writer and scholar Annabel Paulsen explores the inherently queer themes of honky tonk music in the 1985 lesbian classic film Desert Hearts.
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cultureHow Robert Altman’s Anti-Western Classic ‘McCabe & Mrs. Miller’ Aged Like Fine Wine
The legendary director Robert Altman was given an Academy Honorary Award in 2006, “in recognition of a career that has repeatedly reinvented...
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cultureAlexander Jacobs: A Bastard Made of Concrete
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'...
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cultureAn Interview with Eddie Campbell, Part Two: The (Ever-Shifting) Fate of The Artist
Part two of NeoText's interview with the incomparable comics creator Eddie Campbell.
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cultureThe Marshall and the Space Miners – In Peter Hyams’ ‘Outland’, No One Can Hear You Punch Out
George Lucas’ Star Wars in 1977 led to a boom of hasty space opera knock-offs, but there had always been a dogged...
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culture‘Point Blank’ – John Boorman’s Amalgamation of American, British and French Filmmaking Styles
The stories behind director John Boorman and screenwriter Alexander Jacobs brilliant retelling of Donald Westlake's THE HUNTER
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cultureHoward Chaykin – A Life in Comics
A deep dive conversation between author Michael Tisserand and Howard Chaykin, whose life and career offer an oral history of American comics.