Emina Melonic
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East Aurora, NY, United States
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Past articles by Emina:
He Called Himself the Preacher
The overwhelming power of Robert Mitchum in Charles Laughton's masterpiece, The Night of the Hunter (1955). || Emina Melonic → Read More
Maggie Gyllenhaal's Triumph
The Lost Daughter is an atmospheric film with a naturalistic, everyday touch. || Emina Melonic → Read More
Miracle in Light
The majesty of Josef von Sternberg's Underworld (1927). || Emina Melonic → Read More
Free Time
Exploring the boundaries of cinema with Andrei Tarkovsky. || Emina Melonic → Read More
They Do Go Boo
Wait Until Dark (1967) stars Audrey Hepburn in one of her only psychological thrillers. || Emina Melonic → Read More
Audrey's Habit
The Nun's Story (1959) is a refreshing and sobering compaion to Audrey Hepburn's other 1950s classics. || Emina Melonic → Read More
Curiosity Kills
Béla Lugosi and Boris Karloff in Edgar G. Ulmer’s The Black Cat (1934). → Read More
Megan Fox with the Most Cake
Jennifer’s Body (2009) isn’t trying to prove anything ideologically or otherwise—this is a fun ride through the amusement park of female sexuality. || Emina Melonic → Read More
Not Exactly Running Up That Hill
In 1982 Les Blank made Burden of Dreams, one of the few "making of" movies on par with their subject—in this case, Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo. || Emina Melonic → Read More
Nothing for Money
Henri Verneuil’s 1963 crime drama Any Number Can Win shouldn't be overshadowed by contemporary French New Wave classics. || Emina Melonic → Read More
Vanish Into Steel
The height of cinematic eroticism in Michelangelo Antonioni's L'eclisse (1962). || Emina Melonic → Read More
The Perfect Time for Murder
Death and deceit for its own sake in René Clément’s Purple Noon (1960), an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley. || Emina Melonic → Read More
Comedown at Connie's
Smooth Talk (1985) is a bracing adaptation of the Joyce Carol Oates story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” || Emina Melonic → Read More
I Love It When I See It
Louis Malle's The Lovers (1958) is hardly pornographic, and it's not a masterpiece, but it’s definitely erotic. || Emina Melonic → Read More
The Mess of Fassbinder's Despair
Despite the dream-like confusion of Fassbinder's first film in English, Dirk Bogarde emerges triumphant. || Emina Melonic → Read More
If I Could Wish for Something
What makes Liliana Cavani’s The Night Porter (1974) acceptable is the fact that National Socialism isn’t aesthetically elevated, but rather criticized for its obsession with aesthetics. || Emina Melonic → Read More
Gustav's Sullen, Silky Face
Death in Venice (1971) is one of Dirk Bogarde's greatest performances. || Emina Melonic → Read More
Visconti's Campy Nazi Orgy
The Damned (1969) is lost in the sea of fetishistic aesthetics and that has, paradoxically, lost the language of cinema. || Emina Melonic → Read More
Our Darling Dirk
In John Schlesinger's Darling (1965), Bogarde tries his best to satisfy his own mod "It girl," played by Julie Christie. || Emina Melonic → Read More
Something's Wrong with Melvin
Basil Dearden’s Victim (1961) is a key film in Dirk Bogarde's career, a performance informed and and entwined in his personal life. || Emina Melonic → Read More