Great start to TIFF’s Dorothy Arzner retrospective - and a longtime favourite. During her introductory remarks, series programmer Alicia Fletcher mentioned that she made it through two post-graduate film degrees without once seeing an Arzner film. That’s disheartening, and one hopes the canonizers are recalibrating their watch lists as we speak, but it also reminded me of my good fortune in having grown up indiscriminately immersed in the studio age buffet laid out by PBS stations during the ‘80s. I…
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Till the End of Time 1946
Director Edward Dmytryk puts on a clinic in blacklist-ready filmmaking.
You've seen this film in plenty of footnotes to articles on Wyler's brilliant BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES. It's the other "three soldiers come home" movie released in 1946. I'm not going to argue that it's better, but it's no also-ran.
The themes are similar: social dislocation, existential dread, battlefield trauma, vicious physical challenges, and the whole gamut of concerns that come under the heading of "post-war readjustment"; but Dmytryk's…
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The Strange Woman 1946
Forget inventing Wi-Fi. This is the most important thing Hedy Lamarr ever did.
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