Eloise Ross

Jan 16, 2024 | informahealthcare.com | Eloise Ross

As the opening credits of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Richard Brooks Citation1958) transition from their storybook theatricality into the film’s diegetic space, Charles Wolcott’s score fades while the ambient sounds of a warm summer evening bleed into the soundscape. The visuals open at East Mississippi High School Athletic Field, empty but for Brick (Paul Newman), a few hurdle frames, and his car.

Sep 25, 2023 | tandfonline.com | Eloise Ross

IntroductionAs the opening credits of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Richard Brooks Citation1958) transition from their storybook theatricality into the film’s diegetic space, Charles Wolcott’s score fades while the ambient sounds of a warm summer evening bleed into the soundscape. The visuals open at East Mississippi High School Athletic Field, empty but for Brick (Paul Newman), a few hurdle frames, and his car.

Apr 21, 2023 | sensesofcinema.com | Eloise Ross

While Perry said this about his work on Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970), the same can be applied to The Swimmer. Filmed for the most part in 1966, but not released until 1968, The Swimmer focuses closely on Burt Lancaster’s facial expressions bodily gestures, not as a dreamboat star or Hollywood beefcake, but as a signifier of the embodied experience of human life. It is these things that most powerfully communicate the meaning, feeling, and loneliness buried deep within this film.

Mar 14, 2023 | overland.org.au | Daniel Ray |Grace Brooks |Eloise Ross

It is perhaps no surprise that James Cameron’s Avatar films—respectively the first and third highest grossing film of all time—fail to offer an imagination which exceeds the banal territories of capitalism. But, through their lip-service and surface-level ‘critique’ of it, the films show us precisely the way contemporary capitalism operates. The principal target of this critique is extractive capitalism and its exploitation of the environment and of Indigenous cultures.