The Movie Book

A GOLDEN AGE IN BLACK AND WHITE 79 What else to watch: Leave Her To Heaven (1945) ■ The Killers (1946) ■ Build My Gallows High ( ...

80 A film poem on the nature and varieties of love—sacred and profane, selfless and possessive. Pauline Kael 5001 Nights at the ...

A GOLDEN AGE IN BLACK AND WHITE 81 heroism. The production team also included Jews in hiding, whose identities were kept secret— ...

82 CHILDREN OF PARADISE Rejected by Garance, Baptiste marries Nathalie, played by Maria Casares, an exiled Spanish Republican as ...

A GOLDEN AGE IN BLACK AND WHITE 83 Baptiste’s father plays for laughs from the “children of paradise,” even as Baptiste reinvent ...

84 F or some critics, Jean Cocteau’s La Belle et la Bête (Beauty and the Beast) is one of the most poetic movies ever made. It i ...

A GOLDEN AGE IN BLACK AND WHITE 85 What else to watch: A Trip to the Moon (1902, pp.20–21) ■ King Kong (1933, p.49) ■ Vasilissa ...

86 THIS IS THE UNIVERSE. BIG ISN’T IT? A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH / 1946 A Matter of Life and Death is the story of a young Brit ...

A GOLDEN AGE IN BLACK AND WHITE 87 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger Directors Michael Powell (above, right) was born in Ken ...

GEORGE REMEMBER NO MAN IS A FAILURE WHO HAS FRIENDS IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE / 1946 ...

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90 IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE I ronically, the release of Frank Capra’s most enduring motion picture was one of his greatest disappoi ...

A GOLDEN AGE IN BLACK AND WHITE 91 the peerless It Happened One Night (1934), starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert, but he ...

92 IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE In the process, George protects the community from the greedy bank director and slum landlord, Henry F. ...

A GOLDEN AGE IN BLACK AND WHITE 93 Bedford Falls (now Pottersville) looks very different. “Each man’s life touches so many other ...

94 While Hollywood may sometimes deal with these facts by analogy, the Italians deal with the facts, period. Arthur Miller The N ...

A GOLDEN AGE IN BLACK AND WHITE 95 The thief’s family and friends furiously protest the culprit’s innocence, and a policeman adm ...

96 THE BICYCLE THIEF troubled, situation: “I mind my own business, I bother nobody,” he says, “and what do I get? Trouble.” Towa ...

A GOLDEN AGE IN BLACK AND WHITE 97 On its release in Italy, the movie met with some hostility for its negative portrayal of the ...

98 IT IS SO DIFFICULT TO MAKE A NEAT JOB OF KILLING PEOPLE WITH WHOM ONE IS NOT ON FRIENDLY TERMS KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS / 194 ...