Mackendrick's Rules: The Archive

Writer-director Alexander Mackendrick made underrated movies such as The Man in the White Suit, then became a revered film professor and published a great book called “On Filmmaking.” Commenter J.S. found a list of 41 Mackendrick truisms online, so I spent a few days discussing how those excellent rules lined up with my own advice... 

• Mackendrick's Rules, Part 1: Rules 1-10
• Mackendrick's Rules, Part 2: Rules 11-21
• Mackendrick's Rules, Part 3: Rules 22-31
• Mackendrick's Rules, Part 4: Rules 32-41