The Perfect Geometry of Garden of Women

Garden of Women (1954)
dir. Keisuke Kinoshita

Celebrate the work of the recently departed Canadian film icon Michel Brault with his lovely light short Geneviève.


                       

Geneviève by Michel Brault, National Film Board of Canada

Check out my new commentary for Frank Borzage's A Farewell to Arms.

I go into the transition out of the silent era, the challenges of adapting a famous work, censorship problems in Classic Hollywood, and how the lives and careers of the principals informed the film. Also Gary Cooper's sex life.

Here it is in MP3:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/p3tqec

The Prairie

Who'll Stop the Rain (1978)
dir. Karel Reisz

We Gotta Get Out of This Place (2013)

dir. Simon Hawkins & Zeke Hawkins

A little known fact about Fritz Lang

...is that, shortly before he died, he turned into John Ford.

Ford left, Lang right.

The Lusty Gaze

Adaptation (2002)
dir. Spike Jonze

Louie "Come On, God" (2011)
Dir. Louis C.K.

from TrixRabbi

The Gunman

The Godfather: Part II (1974)

dir. Francis Ford Coppola

The Godfather: Part III (1990)

dir. Francis Ford Coppola

from csidle