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4 days ago · Frank Russell Capra (born Francesco Rosario Capra; May 18, 1897 – September 3, 1991) was an Italian-American film director, producer, and screenwriter who was the creative force behind several major award-winning films of the 1930s and 1940s. Born in Italy and raised in Los Angeles from the age of five, his rags-to-riches story has led film ...
17 hours ago · It’s been decades since Spielbergian entered the cinematic consciousness, but the style of Steven Spielberg is heavily indebted to several of his most prominent directorial inspirations. There are elements of Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, Akira Kurosawa, and Frank Capra sprinkled ...
2 days ago · As Frank Capra’s cynical romantic fable celebrates its 90th anniversary, Dr Alexander Sergeant revisits its lasting influence in setting a template for the romcoms genre. It Happened One Night at 90: the film that defined the romantic comedy
2 days ago · The first pairing looks at two films in which religion plays a big role in the story: director Frank Capra’s pre-code romantic drama The Miracle Woman (1931), featuring Barbara Stanwyck as a clergyman’s daughter who teams with a con man (Sam Hardy) and performs fake miracles for profit, followed by Boys Town (1938), the Best Picture Oscar ...
1 day ago · Like, 'Oh my gosh. So you're Laurence Olivier and Frank Capra all in the same second.' "He went on to praise the broad appeal of Pee-wee, ...
1 day ago · Director Arthur Ripley’s background was primarily in silent and early talkie comedies, including as a stint as a gag writer for Mack Sennett, screenplays for Frank Capra’s late silents, and still later he was the credited director on several W.C. Fields two-reelers for Sennett in the early 1930s, The Pharmacist and The Barber Shop.
2 days ago · UK-based artist Sam Green has teased artwork for what is rumored to be for 88 Films’ forthcoming 4K Ultra HD release for Miracles (aka Mr. Canton and Lady Rose), Jackie Chan’s 1989 Golden Harvest martial arts film, which is loosely remade from Frank Capra’s 1961 classic Pocketful of Miracles.
