Immersing us in another place and time is one of the major accomplishments of “Roma.” It also wouldn’t be possible without the film’s wonderful costume design.
Spike Lee films have always stood out for their pacing. “Oftentimes, there isn’t a frame of open space,” says Lee’s longtime editor Barry Alexander Brown. He calls it getting rid of “the business.”
The rampant success of the tribute-laden ‘La La Land’ belies the fact that cinematic homage is not an easy thing to pull off. Here are some the lessons it can teach us all on how to do homage right.