“We’re All Dying”: The Misfits as Haunted Film Ivana Brehas April 2023 CTEQ Annotations on Film What’s recorded by the camera is at least metaphorically, a ghost of something that was once as it appears in the picture but is no more. And so that’s why film has been called “the haunted medium” more than a...
“Open the Door”: Access and Dominance in Mikey and Nicky (Elaine May, 1976) Ivana Brehas July 2019 CTEQ Annotations on Film The men of Elaine May’s Mikey and Nicky (1976) seem trapped in a tenuous, exhausting, night-long tug of war. The film follows two small-time criminals: the livewire, reckless Nicky (John Cassavetes), who believ...