Tag: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Mank Arrives As A Sort of Elegy For What Screenwriting–Ergo Film–Used to Be
Although David Fincher couldn’t have known while in the long preproduction phase of Mank that a sinister disease called COVID-19 was brewing to help take [Read More…]
Set During The Great Depression, Mannequin Assures Its Audience They Can Live on Love
With a script written by playwright Lawrence Hazard, the repartee of Frank Borzage’s 1937 film, Mannequin (pre-dating the one Andrew McCarthy would star in fifty [Read More…]