Norman Jewison’s 1987 Academy Award-winning romantic comedy Moonstruck is about many things. Themes of love, family, Italian-Americanism, infidelity, and even outright absurdity come into the mix, making the film as multifaceted as it is hilarious and heartwarming. But what really sets the film apart from its contemporary offerings is its obsession with the opera, specifically Giacomo Puccini’s La bohème. It is this production that lead romantic protagonists Ronny (Nicolas Cage) and Loretta (Cher) see on their date, but it also…
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Audrey 2020
“For the woman who’s most loved in the world…” says Emma Kathleen Hepburn Ferrer, “…to have such a lack of love is so sad.” The woman Emma speaks of is her grandmother, Hollywood darling, UNICEF ambassador, and cultural icon Audrey Hepburn. To most, Hepburn is the star donning that famous “little black dress” and smoking a cigarette with a quellazaire as her character Holly Golightly from 1961’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s. A radiant screen figure whose pop culture presence is often…
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Masculin Féminin 1966
Always rocks when Godard references his or his friends’ works. Would be more annoying if anyone else did it but it truly feels like it comes from a place of fun and not an attempt to be, in today’s terms, “meta.”
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Garfield's Babes and Bullets 1989
My introduction to film noir still reigns supreme over all other film noir.
