With his fractured fairy tale about a stripper who falls for the son of a Russian oligarch, the filmmaker evokes the spirit of ’70s cinema while eliciting a star-making turn from Mikey Madison.

That’s how the director Vincente Minnelli described the elusive secrets to any memorable scene in a movie, or even a single shot. Or the single second it takes to move from one shot to another. How a ...

Jason Wiese writes feature stories for CinemaBlend. His occupation results from years dreaming of a filmmaking career, settling on a "professional film fan" career, studying journalism at ...