One of the many things that is fascinating to me about cinema is what happens when artists tell the same story in different ways. I love how they make bold choices when adapting a work of art which causes it to feel original and fresh, while at the same time honoring the qualities which made… Read more »
Entries by Jesse Pasternack
Double Trouble: How Michael Mann Used L.A. Takedown (1989) to Make Heat (1995)
This July, Establishing Shot presents It’s Revived!, a miniseries celebrating some of our favorite (or at least some of the more fascinating) movie remakes out there in anticipation of IU Cinema’s fall film series Re:Made. Up first, Jesse Pasternack discusses how Michael Mann turned a TV movie into a stone-cold cinematic classic. Every cinema enthusiast… Read more »
Catch Me If You Can at 20
This June, Establishing Shot will feature a miniseries we’re calling Here’s Looking at You, 2002 as we take a look back at films celebrating their 20th anniversary this year. Up first, we have Jesse Pasternack’s appreciation of a Steven Spielberg classic that deserves a reappraisal. It might seem strange to describe Catch Me If You… Read more »
How Dementia 13 (1963) Anticipated The Conversation (1974)
One of my favorite things to do as a cinema enthusiast is to watch how a director grows over time. I love seeing a director take situations they had mentioned or tentatively explored in earlier films and expand upon them in their later work. If you look closely, you can see them learning and taking… Read more »
The Brilliant Tonal Shifts of The Host
New Korean Cinema has many trademarks which I enjoy. Its films are full of great actors including but not limited to Song Kang-ho and Choi Min-sik. They are as entertaining as they are insightful about the world in which we live. But more than anything, what I love about New Korean Cinema (as well as… Read more »
The Cinematic Wonders of Close Encounters of the Third Kind
“What makes a man leave bed and board And turn his back on home? Ride away, ride away, ride away.” — Stan Jones, theme song from The Searchers “Face to face…with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby Steven Spielberg loves The Searchers (1956). He has repeatedly cited… Read more »