Josh, Thanks for asking. Dan is right that most Borzage-lovers would not count those two as their favorites. I do, and would say that he never made a film...
... it's ... regular ... film. ... made a ... form, as ... quality of ... Hey, ... Apparently she has directed only two other films after "Noir et Blanc":...
... "'China Doll' is uneven but great...The very final airport scene (and don't let anyone give what happens in it away in advance) is transcendently great, as...
... film, ... less ... Me too, re: THE RIVER. It employs something like the doubling structure that Cahiers pointed out in Hitchcock (Wrong Man), doubling ...
Out of the dozen or so Borzage films I've seen, "Shinin' Through" seems like his highest accomplishment to me. Fred's placement of this film on his all-time...
... For years I would get excited for a second every time a Claire Denis film would show over here, until I realized that it was the wrong Claire D. I've...
Well, today I caught up with Fabián Bielinsky's "The Aura" and while I can't claim it is as overtly impressive as "Nine Queens," it is an excellent film...
... It's available on DVD in the UK. ... The story I heard was the Cammell detected some repressed lesbian impulses in Anne Heche, and cast her in WILD SIDE as...
... No surprise there. But there's no ... Really now. It's fairly obvious that Cammell "covered the waterfront," and according to Barbara Steele "You'd have...
... this ... of ... of ... Fascinating comments, and here's a confession it pains me to make. I've been seeing Borzage films most of my life and dearly love...
The initial cut of the film released by Nu-Image, before the extensive posthumous revisions made by Frank Mazzola and paid for by Hamish McAlpine, is seen as...
... by ... Heche ... much ... of ... slice ... I haven't seen the Nu Image cut, but your comments make me think that I should. Because I noticed a process...
I have the Nu Image cut on laser. Everything that everyone's been saying about Bauer, Chen and Heche sounds par to the course for Cammell. Like Nick Ray he ...
Blake, Borzage in the 40s is uneven. We have some of his greatest work and some that are, er, not so great. The former includes "Smilin' Through," "Till We...
... some ... Through," "Till ... Interestingly, those two "not so great" are the others you mention I haven't seen yet (besides "Smilin' Through"). "Stage...
... No reason to be ashamed whatsoever. Who can forget Satyajit Ray getting his special Oscar on his deathbed declaring his undying love for Deana? She was...
Can't help echoing Blake's enthusiasm for "It Started with Eve" (Henry Koster, 1941). This Deanna Durbin comedy is so good-natured and so much fun, that one...
... I've never felt that comfortable with thematic criticism, for that reason. Thematic consistency doesn't seem to have anything much to do with what makes a...
I've seen fewer of Borzage's films than many members of a_film_by. But have begun to notice some things about Borzage's subject matter. Sarris treated Borzage...
PS - can add one more example of a running subject matter in Borzage: his non-realistic recreation of ethnic enclaves in the US. These include the recreation...
All right, the nominations are dying down. Please look this list over, and write me at sallitt at post dot harvard dot edu if anything you suggested or want...
David Schwartz of AMMI sent us the Borzage schedule. His message follows. - Dan ================ Hi, I'm glad to see such interest in the upcoming Borzage...
... what ... I've said it before; I'll say it again: It isn't just WHAT a film means that counts, but HOW it means whatever it means. This permits you to talk...
