SPOILERS FOR BOTH HAWKS’ AND MANN’S FILMS When we think about films that involve a collective of professionals, they often dominate the list of the …
The Clash of Codes: Professionalism and Romanticism in the Films of Howard Hawks and Michael Mann
25 Years of Mulholland Drive: Recalling Hollywood’s False Promises
*Spoilers Ahead for Mulholland Drive (2001) It opens with a background of deep, theatrical purple – a backdrop that is clearly artificially imposed. In the …
The Lost Grammar of Emotion in Film: Why Modern Audiences Take Melodramas Less Seriously
Earlier this year, I caught a re-release of Luchino Visconti’s family saga, Rocco and His Brothers (1960) at BFI Southbank. While I thoroughly enjoyed the …