In the opening scene of Francis Lee’s Ammonite, a brief sort of prologue set decades before the main story, we see a complete, fossilized ichthyosaur skeleton being arranged for display in a museum. Empirical though it may be, to contemplate...
There are two common complaints one usually has to endure from avid readers about film adaptations, and often film in general – that the cinema leaves nothing to the imagination and no room for the interior life. Books clearly do...
I had high hopes to see what Michael Mayer, an established and respected Broadway director, would be able to bring to a film adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull. Surely, a former theater student at NYU would be able to...