The Grey Fox and the Platinum Blonde: Marilyn Monroe in Howard Hawks’ Monkey Business (1952) Andréas Giannopoulos April 2023 CTEQ Annotations on Film “She’s as phony as a three dollar bill, and you’re trying to make her real”, director Howard Hawks told 20th Century-Fox executive Darryl F. Zanuck after the latter complained about losing money on his studio’s...
Lost Paradise: F.W. Murnau’s Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931) Andréas Giannopoulos November 2022 CTEQ Annotations on Film By the end of the 1920s the success of Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) had made F. W. Murnau a significantly wealthy and commanding figure in Hollywood. But diminishing returns from his follow-up Four Devi...
An entertainment: Fritz Lang’s Ministry of Fear (1944) Andréas Giannopoulos May 2022 CTEQ Annotations on Film Graham Greene’s 1943 novel The Ministry of Fear – a “wrong man” story set during the London Blitz in which a recently institutionalised person accidentally obtains a cake containing secret Nazi microfilm – seem...
