How Technicolor informs Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece ‘Vertigo’
A classic.
Classic Film
‘Dance, Girl, Dance’: the 1940 comedy that confronted the male gaze head-on
“Go ahead and stare, I’m not ashamed.”
‘Husbands’: emasculation through the mundanity of the American dream
An uncomfortable critique of American masculinity.
The Story Behind The Shot: Paul Newman’s tearful banjo playing in ‘Cool Hand Luke’
The director was a master of manipulation.
The Dark Side of Hollywood: Anna May Wong, the first Chinese-American Hollywood star
An mesmerising screen presence
Anatomy of a Scene: Dissecting the treehouse coronation in ‘Hereditary’
‘Hereditary’ ends with a sublimely horrifying ascension.