Marty
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Post by Marty on Jan 23, 2006 16:48:24 GMT
William Wyler (1902-1981)Dead End (1937) Jezebel (1938) Wuthering Heights (1939) The Westerner (1940) The Letter (1940) The Little Foxes (1941) Mrs. Miniver (1942) The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) Detective Story (1951) Carrie (1952) Roman Holiday (1953) The Desperate Hours (1955) The Big Country (1958) Ben-Hur (1959) A.O. Scott said in the New York Times a year or so ago that modern cinema criticism has reached the cynical plateau that equates "popular entertainment (in cinema) to being unworthy of serious criticism" with many film-makers of the past (as well as contemporary directors too) suffering critically, as a result. To my mind Wyler is one of those film-makers who is constantly and criminally overlooked as a result of this cynicism, a victim of his own success it might be said, his epic Ben Hur being his downfall with the established chattering glitterati that once praised his power to draw emotional response from an audience. Technically Wyler knew his limitations, he made his bones, like Ford, directing cheap genre pictures in the 20s and 30s, but he became a master of these limitations too, forgo-ing experimentation, which he was uncomfortable with, and focusing more on mastering a standard camera "palette" to evoke a story.
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Capo
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Post by Capo on Jan 23, 2006 17:28:04 GMT
1. Ben-Hur 1959 I have Roman Holiday ready to go. But the film I want to see most is The Collector.
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jrod
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Post by jrod on Jan 23, 2006 20:53:06 GMT
Wuthering Heights The Best Years of our Lives Ben Hur
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Post by Mike Sullivan on Jan 23, 2006 21:56:58 GMT
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Post by Michael on Oct 25, 2008 3:26:36 GMT
1. Ben-Hur (1959) ***
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