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 »
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Second Time’s the Charm: The Auteur Remake
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, Jack Miller explores how Alfred Hitchcock, Yasujirō Ozu, and Howard Hawks reached back into their own filmographies to make… Read more »
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 »
Cape Fear and Parody
Cape Fear is notable for many different reasons. It was Martin Scorsese’s first remake. It is one of Scorsese’s most financially successful films, which arguably paved the way for him to make higher budget movies such as Casino and The Aviator. This movie received nominations for two Academy Awards® – Best Actor (Robert De Niro… Read more »