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Eros and Thanatos Collide in David Cronenberg’s Id-Driven Adaptation of J.G....
By Koraljka Suton As a young upstart filmmaker I felt that you were not a real filmmaker if you didn’t write your own stuff and it should be original. And that was beyond the French version of the...
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‘The Last Temptation of Christ’ As a Testament to and an Exploration of...
By Koraljka Suton Ever since he was a little boy, director Martin Scorsese wanted to make a movie about the life of Jesus Christ. Being raised Catholic, the former altar boy even contemplated...
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Moonbase Alpha, Moonbase Beta: Sam Rockwell Is the Secret VFX at the Heart of...
By Tim Pelan Ten years ago Duncan Jones’ Moon (2009) became the little science fiction film that could, an indie hit with a minuscule budget of five million dollars. After it premiered at that year’s...
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Once Upon a Time… In the Philippines: Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Apocalypse Now’...
By Tim Pelan According to its director Francis Ford Coppola, Apocalypse Now was “a Los Angeles dream of war.” He told Empire‘s Ian Freer in the May 2011 issue, on the occasion of the Redux release,...
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The Risk Always Lives: Words to Live by On the Set of James Cameron’s ‘Aliens’
By Tim Pelan “My mommy always said there were no monsters—no real ones—but there are,” Carrie Henn’s hardened child Newt chides Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley in Aliens. There may not be piston jawed...
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‘In the Mouth of Madness’: John Carpenter’s Love Letter to H.P. Lovecraft and...
By Koraljka Suton Director John Carpenter was always one to surprise, frighten and delight his audiences. After making Dark Star, a 1974 low-budget horror movie that went rather unnoticed upon its...
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‘Kundun’: Martin Scorsese’s Serene Meditation on the Transient Nature of Life
By Koraljka Suton It is no secret that Martin Scorsese is a devoutly religious man. His life-long quest to re-evaluate and come to terms with his faith was the driving force behind his highly...
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Run Through the Jungian: Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Full Metal Jacket’, a...
By Tim Pelan “It’s not pro-war or anti-war. It’s just the way things are,” Stanley Kubrick said of Full Metal Jacket, his 1987 adaptation of Gustav Hasford’s novel, The Short-Timers. Hasford was a...
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‘The Conversation’: Francis Ford Coppola’s Paranoia-Ridden Tale of...
By Koraljka Suton Between his masterpiece The Godfather (1972) and its 1974 sequel, esteemed filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola decided to seize the opportunity to do a small-scale movie that was very...
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‘Miller’s Crossing’: A Lamentation of Losers by the Coen Brothers
By Tim Pelan 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 between $11 million and $15 million....
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How Robert Altman’s Anti-Western Classic ‘McCabe & Mrs. Miller’ Aged Like...
By Koraljka Suton The legendary director Robert Altman was given an Academy Honorary Award in 2006, “in recognition of a career that has repeatedly reinvented the art form and inspired filmmakers and...
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Jean-Pierre Melville: Life and Work of a Groundbreaking Filmmaking Poet
One of the very few filmmakers we deeply cherish above almost all others and whose work we hold in the greatest esteem is Jean-Pierre Melville, the highly influential French filmmaker who reached his...
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Cleansing of the Soul for a Clean Slate: Guillermo del Toro’s ‘The Devil’s...
By Sven Mikulec Three decades ago, the now-renowned Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro was at the beginning of his path. Prior to making Cronos, a dark, visually rich and atmospheric vampire...
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Paradise Lost: How Martin Scorsese’s ‘Casino’ Charts the Rise and Fall of a...
By Tim Pelan Casino in some respects is director Martin Scorsese dialing Goodfellas up to 11. Oh, you want the mob life? Well here it is in Chairman of the board brashness and lurid VEGAS BABY!...
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‘Point Blank’: John Boorman’s Amalgamation of American, British and French...
By Koraljka Suton British filmmaker John Boorman started out by making documentaries for the BBC before getting a chance to direct his first feature film, the 1965 Catch Us If You Can (known in the...
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How ‘Once Upon a Time in America’ Became Sergio Leone’s Butchered Swan Song
By Koraljka Suton The great Italian director Sergio Leone established himself as the inventor of the spaghetti Western genre in the mid-1960s thanks to his Dollars trilogy (A Fistful of Dollars, For...
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‘Magnolia’: Paul Thomas Anderson’s Absorbing Mosaic of Compassion, Humanity...
By Sven Mikulec In 1997, an ambitious 26-year-old called Paul Thomas Anderson made Boogie Nights, his sophomore directing effort that dazzled the film loving community. The commercial and critical...
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A 1971 Interview With Alejandro Jodorowsky on ‘El Topo,’ the Psychedelic,...
By Sven Mikulec Alejandro Jodorowsky’s El Topo just might be the weirdest, most bizarre, genre-bending film we’ve ever seen. This 1970 mystical western-disguised, symbol-ridden epic exploration of...
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‘Walk the Line’: How James Mangold Uncovered the Emotional History of Johnny...
By Koraljka Suton He had to find the range of his own creativity, and learn how to control this river of darkness that he had been riding, and corral it in some way… Everyone thinks he was born ‘the...
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Appetite for Destruction: Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘Phantom Thread’ and the...
By Tim Pelan Not unlike James Cameron and his flop sweat fever dream of a chrome skeleton-framed torso, dragging itself relentlessly by a wicked blade after a fleeing young woman that led to his...
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