Frank Borzage can be forgiven in thinking that a world that included someone like Margaret Sullavan couldn’t be all that bad.
Three Comrades is a compromised film in many ways, but Borzage, Sullavan, and Fitzgerald form a powerfully poetic trio.
Frank Borzage’s cinema is drawn to contrasts: of light and dark, of toughness and fragility.
It remains of interest because it sheds somewhat disturbing light on the longing for maternal comfort in all of Borzage’s famous love stories.
Lazybones is one of Frank Borzage’s most deeply felt films.
It’s difficult to evaluate The River, one of Borzage’s last silent films, because only a small portion of it survives.
Glowing with moody natural light, the western Until They Get Me is quite uninterested in action and horseplay.
Based on a long-running stage success and wildly popular upon its first release, Seventh Heaven is probably Frank Borzage’s most famous film.
Imagine a film about Jesus where his mother Mary and Mary Magdalene were played by the same actress.
The unique quality of History Is Made at Night is its ability to turn on a dime.
Frank Borzage’s imaginative power here is singular, fantastic, and inimitable, even God-like.
Man’s Castle is harsh-spirited, episodic, in a rage over the ghastly injustices of economic privation.
The whole thing has the dreary feeling of a bottom-of-the-barrel, clammy ’70s sex comedy.
This is a predictable movie, not particularly funny, like Funny Face with no musical numbers.
Aside from Greta Garbo’s scenes, the film is basically just a long soap opera about despair, superstition, and redemption.
A thorough DVD package for this rare early Garbo film.
The film is ham-fisted, maddeningly overwritten, and about as subtle as a jackhammer.
An adequate Dietrich DVD set with three essential films and two amiable duds.
An overwhelming set that will please the Berkeley fan and alarm others.
Five fine Mae West films thrown together in a shoddy white plastic package.