This Quarter in Film History Archives - Page 6 of 8

Frankly, Selznick Did Give a Damn

November 1, 2009

Why David O. Selznick feared a tombstone epitaph as the man who made Gone with the Wind (1939) is mysterious. This film was his Tara as much as it was Miss Scarlett’s. […]

THIS MONTH IN FILM HISTORY:
Miloš’ Mozartifacts

September 1, 2009

Miloš Forman has focused on one theme: How society grinds down the individual and is basically corrupt and hypocritical. […]

THIS MONTH IN FILM HISTORY:
Renoir’s War ‘Rules’

July 1, 2009

Beneath its seemingly innocuous appearance, the story attacks the very structure of our society… The audience recognized this. The truth is that they recognized themselves. […]

Vive le Francois!

May 1, 2009

In 1959, the Nouvelle Vague, or New Wave, revolutionized the concept of film editing and scene construction in international film. […]

Documentarian Robert J. Flaherty was regarded by the poet e.e. cummings as “a god among men,” an opinion echoed by Orson Welles, who compared Flaherty to the poets Walt Whitman and Henry David Thoreau. […]

‘Broadway’ Playback

January 1, 2009

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s film legacy is its musicals. Perhaps because it was the most politically conservative of the major studios, MGM was more comfortable with melodramas and musicals than with social issues. […]

A ‘Lion’ For All Seasons

November 1, 2008

‘The Lion in Winter’ is probably one of the few perennially popular films from 1968. […]

This Quarter in Film History: The Angels Wanna Wear My ‘Red Shoes’

September 1, 2008

Since its premiere 60 years ago in September 1948, ‘The Red Shoes’ has been a part of our lives and is the ‘Gone with the Wind’ of dance films. […]

Fingering the Cold War Kids

July 1, 2008

‘Dr. T’ reveals––as few others of its era did––the dysfunctional cracks in the post-war little box subdivisions that exploded in the 1960s […]

This Quarter in Film History: Berkeley in the Thirties

May 1, 2008

A fluffy musical with an innocuous title, Gold Diggers of 1933, contains a mother lode of social comment from characters who are thinly disguised call girls. […]