Author Rodney F. Hill

Rodney F. Hill

Rodney F. Hill teaches film in the Lawrence Herbert School of Communication at Hofstra University. He is co-author of The Francis Ford Coppola Encyclopedia and The Encyclopedia of Stanley Kubrick, and a contributor to several other books, including The Stanley Kubrick Archives. He recently edited a special issue of Post Script on the films of Jacques Demy.

Fargo (Joel and Ethan Coen, 1996)

Rodney F. Hill

March 2017

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There’s a dark and a troubled side of life… – Ada Blenkhorn and Howard Entwisle, “Keep on the Sunny Side” (1899) The opening line of the standard American folk song quoted above, often erroneously attributed ...

Les Demoiselles de Rochefort

Rodney F. Hill

April 2010

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If Jacques Demy’s Les parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, 1964) is a film without generic precedent – as an all-sung, jazz opera on film – then his follow-up effort, Les demoiselles de Rochefor...

Lola Montès

Rodney F. Hill

May 2006

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Lola Montès (1955 France/West Germany 110 mins) Source: Prod Co: GammaFilms/Florida/Union/Oska Prod: Albert Caraco Dir: Max Ophuls Scr: Max Ophuls, Annette Wademant, based on the novel La Vie Extraordin...