The little white attic

1/ Generally speaking, the majority of remakes are unnecessary and/or bad. However, I’m not against remakes per se.  2/ I am, as a principl...

This is my list of favourite underrated films.  To explain, I don’t mention films such as Cries and Whispers —generally speaking, most peop...

Generally I don’t consider myself a horror fan. But here are the films I like:  The Innocents (1961), dir. Jack Clayton  Eyes Without a F...

I’m still reading Nabokov’s Speak, Memory , slowly, because of all the other things going on.  Look at chapter 11:  “The kind of poem I p...

The Innocents is a masterpiece and it is great in many ways, but the thing that interests me the most is the framing—blocking, framing, and ...

To steal in the future.  Orson Welles is probably the best director to learn from, in terms of staging and framing.