Criterion offers a lovely transfer of one of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers’s most enduring films.
The most devastating of American pictures is a simple film masking great complexity.
It’s in the Bag! hilariously proves that Fred Allen likely held film in similar esteem as TV.
This DVD edition of McCarey’s 1937 masterpiece is another heroic act of restoration by the Criterion Collection.
The pain of Swing Time lies in the apotheosis of its dances.
Swing Time is Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers’s masterpiece.
Orson Welles reportedly said of the film, “It would make a stone cry,” and, indeed, the tears that come are more than earned.