Tag: Classics
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“I’m a newspaperman!”: Howard Hawks softened a political satire into a proto-feminist romcom
“His Girl Friday” set the bar for romcoms and gave us a feminist heroine before feminism was cool.
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“Dead Poets Society”: Why Neil’s Father Stood Before The Law
When you think of this brilliant Peter Weir drama, you might remember the famous ‘O Captain! My Captain!’, the ingenious portrayal of John Keating by the late Robin Williams. If you’re Indian you might be unlucky enough to remember the horrible remake of this classic (Mohabbatein), or you might remember ‘Carpe Diem’. What I remember…