No punches are pulled. (Needless to say, things got done a little quicker in Hollywood back in those days.) © Michael Glover Smith, whitecitycinema.com, michaelgloversmith.wordpress.com, 2010-2017. The bank employee points out that he’s just doing what he’s been ordered to do and that he’s being paid by someone hundreds of miles away. I like the general story arc in TS2, but TS3 has the best final scene, and visually it’s also the best and… Continue reading Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich, 2010), Toy Story 2 1999 // USA // John Lasseter Letterboxd (LINK) In my opinion, TOY STORY is a great film, but TOY STORY 2 is a better film which assimilates all the best elements from the 1995’s revolutionary animation and expands and amplifies them into near perfection. Ashfork and Kingman and stone mountains again, where water must be hauled and sold. Frankly, I have to admit I’m spoiled by Pixar which is partially… Continue reading Toy Story (John Lasseter, 1995), Peter Pan 1924 // USA // Herbert Brenon Letterboxd (LINK) What a blast! Grapes of Wrath is a very fine film, though I must admit it’s the only Steinbeck book I had trouble getting through, with Henry Fonda and Jane Darwell deeply moving.
He has a hard, straight picture in which the actors are submerged so completely that it looks and feels like a documentary film and certainly it has a hard, truthful ring. Then down the gorged Rio Grande to Los Lunas and west again on 66 to Gallup, and there’s the border of New Mexico.
Confucius (Fei Mu); Contraband (Michael Powell); My Favorite Wife (Garson Kanin); The Mark of Zorro (Rouben Mamoulian); Nobuko (Hiroshi Shimizu); The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor); The Postmaster (Gustav Ucicky); Pride and Prejudice (Robert Z. Leonard); The Sea Hawk (Michael Curtiz); The Thief of Bagdad (Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, Tim Whelan); Waterloo Bridge (Mervyn LeRoy); The Westerner (William Wyler), The 47 Ronin (Kenji Mizoguchi); 49th Parallel (Michael Powell); Here Comes Mr. Jordan (Alexander Hall); Hold Back the Dawn (Mitchell Leisen); Man Hunt (Fritz Lang); The Shanghai Gesture (Josef von Sternberg); Who Killed Santa Claus? (Christian-Jaque), Bambi (David Hand); The Fantastic Night (Marcel L’Herbier); I Married a Witch (René Clair); Mrs. Miniver (William Wyler); The Murderer Lives at Number 21 (Henri-Georges Clouzot); Saboteur (Alfred Hitchcock), Angels of Sin (Robert Bresson); Carnival of Sinners (Maurice Tourneur); Five Graves to Cairo (Billy Wilder); Hangmen Also Die! Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. The sheer number of those place names and the fact that they’re all connected by Highway 66 gives the reader a sense of what life was like on the road in the 1930s (twenty years before Jack Kerouac). I’m happy to report that these are qualities that come thrillingly alive like never before on Fox’s new Blu-ray of the film, the best it has ever looked on home video.
Tucumcari and Santa Rosa and into the New Mexico mountains to Albuquerque, where the road comes down from Santa Fe.
And now the high mountains. Up from Needles and over a burned range, and there’s the desert.
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Then suddenly a pass, and below the beautiful valley, below orchards and vineyards and little houses, and in the distance a city. This semi-documentary style is a perfect visual correlative for Steinbeck’s semi-journalistic prose (the novel had its origins in a series of newspaper articles that the author had written about labor camps in the mid-1930s). Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. The Fox Blu-ray, which exceeded my expectations, is worthy of the movie and will certainly figure prominently in my end-of-the-year “Best Home Video Releases” list. Zanuck himself was a conservative Republican, which makes his decision to produce the movie all the more remarkable. The Great McGinty (Preston Sturges // USA), Travelling Actors (Mikio Naruse // Japan), Christmas in July (Preston Sturges // USA), Tuition (Choi In-kyu, Han-jun Bang // South Korea), Dance, Girl, Dance (Dorothy Arzner // USA), Went the Day Well? Zanuck actually hired a detective agency to investigate the labor camps in California like the ones portrayed in the book to see if the conditions were as bad as what Steinbeck had claimed. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. 66 across the panhandle of Texas.
Hydro, Elk City and Texola; and there’s an end to Oklahoma. (Tex Avery), The Army (Keisuke Kinoshita); At Land (Maya Deren); The Curse of the Cat People (Robert Wise, Gunther von Fritsch); Jubilation Street (Keisuke Kinoshita); Le ciel est à vous (Jean Grémillon); Ministry of Fear (Fritz Lang); Phantom Lady (Robert Siodmak); This Happy Breed (David Lean // UK), And Then There Were None (René Clair); La barraca (Roberto Gavaldón); The Body Snatcher (Robert Wise); The Clock (Vincente Minnelli); Days of Hope (André Malraux, Boris Peskine); A Diary for Timothy (Humphrey Jennings); Paris Frills (Jacques Becker); The Picture of Dorian Gray (Albert Lewin); San Pietro (John Huston), Canyon Passage (Jacques Tourneur); The Girl I Loved (Keisuke Kinoshita); Green for Danger (Sidney Gilliat); The Killers (Robert Siodmak); My Darling Clementine (John Ford); The Private Life of a Cat (Alexander Hammid, Maya Deren); The Stranger (Orson Welles); Utamaro and His Five Women (Kenji Mizoguchi), Brute Force (Jules Dassin); Daisy Kenyon (Otto Preminger); Miracle on 34th Street (George Seaton); Odd Man Out (Carol Reed); Once More (Heinosuke Gosho); Ride the Pink Horse (Robert Montgomery); A Ship Bound for India (Ingmar Bergman); Snow Trail (Senkichi Taniguchi); T-Men (Anthony Mann), 3 Godfathers (John Ford); The Banquet (Hasse Ekman); Brighton Rock (John Boulting); Cry of the City (Robert Siodmak); Eva (Gustaf Molander); A Hen in the Wind (Yasujiro Ozu); Key Largo (John Huston); Moonrise (Frank Borzage); The Naked City (Jules Dassin); The Snake Pit (Anatole Litvak); They Caught the Ferry (Carl Theodor Dreyer); They Live by Night (Nicholas Ray); Unfaithfully Yours (Preston Sturges); A Visage to Remember (Heinosuke Gosho), Bezoek aan Picasso (Paul Haesaerts); Flame of My Love (Kenji Mizoguchi); Here’s to the Young Lady (Keisuke Kinoshita); Prison (Ingmar Bergman); Thieves’ Highway (Jules Dassin); The Quiet Duel (Akira Kurosawa).
33 Comments | tags: John Ford, John Steinbeck, Joseph McBride, Searching for John Ford: A Life, The Grapes of Wrath | posted in Blu-ray/DVD Reviews, Film Reviews, "Clearly one of the best writers and critics on the internet" - Marilyn Ferdinand, "I find it difficult to think you teach film and suggest there's one milligram of connection between (Harmony) Korine and Wong Kar-Wai: there is none" - Jon Jost, "Very very interesting blog" - Marie Rivière. Clarksville and Ozark and Van Buren and Fort Smith on 64, and there’s an end of Arkansas. (Alberto Cavalcanti // UK), Voyage Without Hope (Christian-Jaque // France), Arsenic and Old Lace (Frank Capra // USA), A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo (Mikio Naruse // Japan), Nazi Concentration Camps (George Stevens // USA), Under the Bridges (Helmut Käutner // Germany), They Made Me a Fugitive (Alberto Cavalcanti // UK). It is pure Americana, pure Steinbeck and, when that prose is translated into images, it is also pure John Ford. The agency reported back to Zanuck that the conditions were actually worse than what was in the novel.
I will give you that DeNiro is exemplary and the workmanship of the film is superior but I …
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