Tag: John Frankenheimer

In War, Even Your Mind Is a Battlefield: The Manchurian Candidate (1962 and 2004)

Posted July 11, 2022 by Noni Ford

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. Today, Noni Ford compares John Frankenheimer and Jonathan Demme’s adaptations of a chilling political thriller that brilliantly investigates the atrocities of… Read more »

Disciples of the Blade: 6 Films Influenced By Le Samouraï

Posted September 12, 2017 by Aja Essex

“A man got to have a code.” — Omar Little from The Wire If there’s one contribution to cinema that Jean-Pierre Melville is most certainly “guilty” of, it would be his characters. Stoic anti-heroes, existential killers, and methodical men seem to pop up as the protagonists in so many of his films. It was the director’s… Read more »