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Hace 1 día · Man’s Castle is a Pre-Code drama from the great Frank Borzage that once again finds the filmmaker exploring the economic plight of the downtrodden. Borzage ensures this is not completely emotionally draining thanks to the central relationship portrayed by Loretta Young and Spencer Tracy.
Hace 4 días · In Rocky, which he wrote and stars in, he’s a thirty-year-old club fighter who works as a strong-arm man, collecting money for a loan shark. Rocky never got anywhere, and he has nothing; he lives in a Philadelphia tenement, and even the name he fights under—the Italian Stallion—has become a joke.
Hace 4 días · The film that secured Frank Borzage's reputation as a major stylist (it earned him the very first Academy Award for Direction), Seventh Heaven is one of cine...
Hace 1 día · By the same token, on Criterion’s very welcome Blu-ray edition of Frank Borzage’s Moonrise (1958), Peter Cowie’s interview with Borzage critic/biographer Hervé Dumont — whose book on the director should be shelved and considered alongside Chris Fujiwara’s book for the same publisher (McFarland) on Jacques Tourneur — primed me perfectly for my second look at this masterpiece, and ...
Hace 2 días · In 1931, industry elder statesman Cecil B. DeMille tried to set up what he called “The Directors’ Guild” with fellow directors King Vidor, Frank Borzage, and Lewis Milestone, and producer Walter Wanger. The addition of Borzage to the roster was reported in the July 14, 1931 edition of “Motion Picture Daily”:
Hace 2 días · Speaking of the inception behind the program Jake returns to the point of paying attention. He states that he doesn’t want people to leave “thinking ‘we saw a film at 6 a.m. wasn't that an amazing event’”. For Jake it’s about raising awareness for those who bothered to come “about Mary Pickford or Frank Borzage.”
Hace 4 días · In this episode, we discuss the state of Lubitsch’s career in this time of personal and political upheaval, the state of Hollywood in the Hays Code era, the the careers of Marlene Dietrich and Frank Borzage, the film’s relationship with genre, and the code-mandated final beat of the plot.
