Monday, March 31 2008
Forbidden Hollywood Collection, Vol. 2
Hooray for 'Hollywood': Second volume of '30s 'Forbidden' films is a fascinating collection.
Thursday, June 28 2007
Essential Classics - Romances
This set highlights the existential crisis about the validity and permanence of love, in a time when Americans were reminded of the absolute ephemeral nature of life and stripped of ideals by the War.
Tuesday, January 23 2007
Pixilated: Frank Capra’s Columbia Years
Capra's films of the '30s are seminal works and cannot be underestimated; their influence on American film has been viral, forever infiltrating the structural and thematic templates of contemporary cinema.
Thursday, May 5 2005
Teacher’s Pet (1958)
Gable here is grown older, alone, and confronting his own irrelevance at the dawn of the '60s.
