michael-anderson
The Awful Truth and the Smallest Injustice in Film History
In accepting his “Best Director” Oscar statuette for The Awful Truth, Leo McCarey famously opined that Academy voters had given him the award for the
Transatlantic Auteur: Ernst Lubitsch’s Self-reflexive Comedies of Misunderstanding
A detailed analysis of the both the stylistic and thematic continuities, and the fault lines, between the German and Hollywood periods of Lubitsch’s work.
Hatari! and the Hollywood Safari Picture
Originally titled “Africa”, the production history of Howard Hawks’ Hatari! is a tale in its own right. Michael J. Anderson teases out its place in
Tiger Shark
Tiger Shark (1932 USA 80 mins) Prod Co: First National-Vitaphone/Warner Bros. Prod: Bryan Foy Dir: Howard Hawks Scr: Wells Root [and John Lee Mahin, uncredited],
James Benning’s Art of Landscape: Ontological, Pedagogical, Sacrilegious
Benning's 13 Lakes is discussed in the light of André Bazin's concept of the ontology of the image and its frame
Before Sunrise, or Los Angeles Plays Itself In a Lonely Place
Michael Mann's Collateral is an ode to the cool “steel and glass” splendour of Los Angeles, from sunset to sunrise
Histoire de Marie et Julien: Jacques Rivette’s Material Ghost Story
Part erotic ghost story, part reflexive commentary on filmic form and narrative, Rivette's latest opus may be his most personal yet