Category: Directed by Merian C. Cooper

  • King Kong (1933, Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack)

    King Kong is a perfect film. I don’t think I’d realized before. It’s always hard to talk about films like Kong, influential standards of American cinema. I want to talk about how its structure still sets the tone for modern films–the gradual lead-in (it’s forty-some minutes before Kong shows up), the non-stop action of the…