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1. portside.org › 2024/04/23 › frank-borzages-mansFrank Borzage’s ‘Man’s Castle’: The Rediscovery of a ...

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   Apr 23, 2024 · The keen wit and wry antics of the film’s director, Frank Borzage, match a deeply sympathetic tenderness for the characters’ strivings and vulnerabilities; “Man’s Castle” offers a vast vision of exaltation and degradation, and of the wild daring, even heroism, that is born of desperate circumstances. However, the sixty-nine-minute ...

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3. www.sensesofcinema.com › 2003 › great-directorsBorzage, Frank – Senses of Cinema

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   Mar 21, 2003 · As Kent Jones writes, Borzage’s cinema “never partakes of the crisis of belief at the core of modern experience.” (p. 35) During the 1920s and ’30s, Borzage had been one of the most important directors in Hollywood, twice winning an Academy Award for Best Director: in 1929 for Sev enth Heaven (1927) and in 1932 for Bad Girl (1931).

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4. www.newyorker.com › culture › the-front-rowThe Rediscovery of a Depression-Era Masterpiece

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   Apr 17, 2024 · Richard Brody on the director Frank Borzage and his 1933 film “Man’s Castle,” which will screen at the Museum of Modern Art as part of a retrospective. ... This is a sort of post-First World ...

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   Is Borzage a post-modern movie?

   • Commentators on Borzage have argued that the director’s sensibility is out of step with an emotionally distanced, post-modern culture, one more devoted to the supposed ironies of a Douglas Sirk or the wit and playfulness (amidst violence and melodrama) of an Alfred Hitchcock.

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   Who was Frank Borzage?

   • Spencer Tracy and Glenda Farrell in “Man’s Castle,” directed by Frank Borzage. Sony Pictures Entertainment A celebrant of redemptive love, Frank Borzage (1893-1962) was the most romantic of classic Hollywood directors and, however unconventionally, perhaps the most religious as well.

   ‘Man’s Castle’: Free Love, Hard Times - The New York Times

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   What was Borzage known for?

   • Borzage was known for his ability to create an extremely intimate atmosphere on the set of his films, an intimacy that played itself out primarily through a relationship between the director and his actors in which the actors often felt as though they were enveloped in a nurturing and romantic environment.

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   Is Borzage a romantic transcendentalist?

   • The most persistent argument about Borzage is that he is a romantic transcendentalist, devoted to male/female love above all else—above politics, culture and history, above the limitations of the flesh, the limitations of time and space and even rational thought.

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6. www.nysun.com › article › frank-borzage-is-a-nameFrank Borzage Is a Name Cineastes May Want To Know, and MoMA ...

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   Apr 18, 2024 · ‘Frank Borzage and Man’s Castle’ Museum of Modern Art April 18-24. Thirty years after the publication of a biography by Hervé Dumont, “Frank Borzage: The Life and Films of a Hollywood Romantic,” any mention of its title subject is likely to be met with blank stares.

7. www.nytimes.com › 2024/04/16 › movies‘Man’s Castle’: Free Love, Hard Times - The New York Times

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   Apr 16, 2024 · Spencer Tracy and Glenda Farrell in “Man’s Castle,” directed by Frank Borzage. Sony Pictures Entertainment. By J. Hoberman. April 16, 2024. A celebrant of redemptive love, Frank Borzage ...

8. www.moma.org › calendar › filmFrank Borzage and Man’s Castle | MoMA

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   Apr 18, 2024 · Film series. Apr 18–24, 2024. “In Borzage’s cinema, mastery of the intimate gesture, peculiar to the most beautiful silent films, lived on. The images emit a language of tenderness, whose secret had seemed lost forever…. The cosmic and the intimate are one. Each of us has a piece of earth in death, and a piece of heaven in life” (Peter von Bagh). Frank Borzage’s 1933 Man’s Castle ...

9. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Frank_BorzageFrank Borzage - Wikipedia

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   Frank Borzage (/ b ɔːr ˈ z eɪ ɡ i / né Borzaga; April 23, 1894 – June 19, 1962) was an American film director and actor. He was the first person to win the Academy Award for Best Director for his film 7th Heaven (1927) at the 1st Academy Awards .