This 1985 fantasy film is remembered fondly by our generation, but may not hold up under re-examination. We look at the studio process it was made under, while thinking about how it tries to subvert our expectations of fairy tales.

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• Ladyhawke

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• 20 Crazy Details Behind The Making Of Ladyhawke
• History, Fantasy, and Weird Armor: Ladyhawke
• Is Ladyhawke the Best Fairy Tale of Them All?
• The Hawk, the Wolf, and the Mouse: Tracing the Gendered other in Richard Donner’s Ladyhawke
• In Defense of ‘Ladyhawke’
• Lessons Every Filmmaker Can Learn From Richard Donner
• The Wolf, the Hawk and the Avant-garde Musician: Interview with Andrew Powell