For all of you with short attention spans, I have compiled a list of “Quick Hits” for the must-read sections of each review. This is often a cool directing concept that most folks miss when watching a given movie for the first time. Other times, it is a directing concept I have not yet seen raised in existing academic research, and thus one The Film Spectrum is posing for the first time:
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: Trap Doors and Creativity: Gondry’s master choreography
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: Cinematic Perspective
- Rocky: The director’s brilliant use of a symbolic birdcage
- The Searchers: A hidden love affair told through mise-en-scene
- Rear Window: Each neighbor representing an alternate future for Stewart
- Vertigo: Escaping the Fire
- Vertigo: Shadows & Mirrors
- Citizen Kane: The beauty of Rosebud
- The Shawshank Redemption: The indicative lighting of Roger Deakins
