Two of the most highly anticipated films this fall — Luca Guadagnino’s “Suspiria” and Bradley Cooper’s directorial debut “A Star Is Born,” — are remakes of beloved classics, but while there are many remakes, few are great.
What determines the difference? IndieWire looked through film history for the keys to successfully retelling and reinventing a film.Each of the 15 directors featured here, ranging from Alfred Hitchcock to Yasujirō Ozu, found extremely different ways to make the material their own.
Some used old stories to reveal something new about the present day; some flipped a premise on its head to create something new; and others used their old films to explore how they had evolved as artists.15.
“Invasion of the Body Snatchers” (1978)Sci-fi and horror films are often our best vehicles to getting at the ills underneath a society.
Don Siegel’s slick, and at times humorous original, captured the insidious
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