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Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein joins the Criterion Collection today. He's said the film's emotional key came from his own back catalog: "The key speech that unlocks Frankenstein is one Jessica Chastain has in Crimson Peak." Full lineage: theframeofreference.com/coll…
Disclosure Day just started streaming on Peacock. Spielberg says he began writing it the way he began Close Encounters of the Third Kind: "that's how I started writing Close Encounters, too." The lineage, mapped: theframeofreference.com/coll…
At AFI Fest this week, Phil Lord and Chris Miller curated the films that shaped Project Hail Mary: Harold and Maude, The Muppet Movie, Rififi, and 2001: A Space Odyssey. "We stand on the shoulders of giants like Hal Ashby and Fozzie Bear." Watch now: theframeofreference.com/coll…
At AFI Fest this week, Phil Lord and Chris Miller paired their Q&A with a screening of 2001: A Space Odyssey, then explained: "We stand on the shoulders of giants like Hal Ashby and Fozzie Bear." The lineage behind Project Hail Mary, mapped: theframeofreference.com/coll…
Christopher Nolan has called Homer "the Marvel of its day" as the original serialized epic, long before franchise cinema borrowed its shape.
The Odyssey arrives on 4K and digital Nov. 17, a good moment to trace what actually built it: theframeofreference.com/coll…
Chloé Zhao: "one of our favorite filmmakers is Wong Kar-wai." Hamnet built its quiet, held moments on the rhythms of In the Mood for Love. The film just reached VOD in France — the influences behind it are worth the detour: theframeofreference.com/coll…
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma just landed on MUBI. Jane Schoenbrun on one touchstone: "The Michael Myers breathing point-of-view shot in Halloween was a key one."
Watch now: theframeofreference.com/coll…
Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein joins the Criterion Collection Oct. 27 with a new 158-minute cut. Among the Creature's ancestors he cites an unlikely one: "the poem was important" — Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage supplies the film's closing line. theframeofreference.com/coll…
Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey arrives on 4K and digital Nov. 17. He didn't expect Kurosawa's Ran to shape it: "It's shot very differently, but there's this relationship between the environment and the wind... I think it was a huge influence." theframeofreference.com/coll…
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma just landed on MUBI. Jane Schoenbrun says its slasher gaze traces straight to Carol Clover's theory, and one shot in particular: "The Michael Myers breathing point-of-view shot in Halloween was a key one." Lineage: theframeofreference.com/coll…
Disclosure Day is streaming now on Peacock. Spielberg traces it to one spark: the 2017 New York Times story on Navy UFO footage. "It rekindled my interest in telling a story about total disclosure," he says. The full trail: theframeofreference.com/coll…
Nouvelle Vague just joined the Criterion Collection, shelved right beside Breathless. Linklater on what drove the New Wave itself: "To me, the Nouvelle Vague really means personal filmmaking."
Full lineage explained: theframeofreference.com/coll…
The Invite starts streaming on HBO Max Oct. 23. Olivia Wilde traces it to one touchstone: "'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' was my number one." The full lineage of influences behind it: theframeofreference.com/coll…
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is now streaming on MUBI. Jane Schoenbrun points to one formative image: "The Michael Myers breathing point-of-view shot in Halloween was a key one." The full lineage behind their slasher: theframeofreference.com/coll…
Del Toro's Frankenstein returns Oct 27 on Criterion with a 158-min Reborn Cut + his own commentary. His own words: "I think The Shape of Water was a big rehearsal for Frankenstein." One director, building toward his monster for decades: theframeofreference.com/coll…
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma hit MUBI Oct 2. Jane Schoenbrun grew up on Friday the 13th, Halloween, and A Nightmare on Elm Street — slashers "I grew up watching at way too young an age."
The homage, unpacked: theframeofreference.com/coll…
The Substance just landed on Hulu. Coralie Fargeat has never hidden her ghosts: "There is David Cronenberg... John Carpenter... Stanley Kubrick... Tim Burton, David Lynch, and Paul Verhoeven." The full lineage behind the body horror: theframeofreference.com/coll…
Disclosure Day streams on Peacock starting today Oct 9. Spielberg traces it back to the 2017 NYT UFO disclosure story and a documentary he "binged through every season": The Secrets of Skinwalker Ranch. His own Close Encounters research comes full circle. theframeofreference.com/coll…
THE END OF OAK STREET just hit digital. David Robert Mitchell on its real DNA: an "80s Amblin vibe," The Twilight Zone, Poltergeist — the merging of character with spectacle he loved in 70s and 80s movies. The full lineage, watch now: theframeofreference.com/coll…
A24's BACKROOMS just hit HBO Max. Kane Parsons says its real root isn't horror — it's a video game: "Portal would be the earliest influence... the strongest influence over everything I've done in my entire life." The lineage behind the nightmare: theframeofreference.com/coll…
