On Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant, Hitchcock, and Notorious Read More
PositionStaff Writer
JoinedMay 27, 2017
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Karina Wolf has been a Staff Writer at Bright Wall/Dark Room since 2013. She studied literature and film in New York, Paris, and Dublin, and works in television and film production. She is the author of the children’s books The Insomniacs and I Am Not a Fox. She lives in Manhattan with her two dogs, Luca and Barry Manilow.
Desperately Seeking Susan is a movie about iconography as a narrative strategy, as a cinematic device, as the foundation of an artistic career. Read More
If anything, Charade is a screwball thriller—and surely the best movie that Howard Hawks never made. Read More
When Martin Scorsese asked Richard Price to adapt Dostoevsky’s novella The Gambler for film, the art world craze of the late... Read More
On the many charms of The Philadelphia Story. Read More
Perhaps most central to The Place Beyond The Pines is the feeling of compulsion: that each man falls neatly into a dilemma that will undo him. Read More
Silence and sentiment. Emotion and fear. The haggard, inconstant flashes of beauty. —The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino, 2013) When Christopher Nolan... Read More
The Third Man moves with a torque that seems both instinctual and skilled. Read More
The Hunger is about decadence as the ultimate counter-culture and survival technique. Read More
t a recent gig at a New York ad agency, I sat with a 26-year-old creative producer and a 45-year-old... Read More
The Royal Tenenbaums is, in part, a love letter to an imaginary Manhattan, a fable which lifts liberally from other renditions of the place, a Calvino-esque invention in which the streets extend to infinity. Read More
But Bull Durham also shows us what we should love about growing older—how external and internal circumstance define possibility, and increase pressure to use time most preciously. Read More