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Apr 30, 2024 · Man’s Castle, a pre-Code love story of a penniless New York couple set amidst the hardships of the Great Depression, is a textbook illustration of Borzage’s talent, style and belief system. Gruff Spencer Tracy meets innocent Loretta Young on a park bench, and before long she’s moving into his Hooverville shanty and keeping the shack as ...
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 ...
Apr 17, 2024 · A new restoration of Frank Borzage’s “Man’s Castle,” starring Loretta Young and Spencer Tracy, showcases the visionary Hollywood director’s lusty yet spiritual artistry.
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 ...
Apr 19, 2024 · Frank Borzage (born April 23, 1893, Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.—died June 19, 1962, Los Angeles, California) was an American motion-picture director and producer noted for his romantic transcendentalism and technically impeccable filmmaking. (Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on film preservation.) He was the son of a master stonemason.
- Michael Barson
Apr 18, 2024 · Frank Borzage and. Man’s Castle. April 18, 2024 – April 24, 2024. The Museum of Modern Art. “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.
Apr 18, 2024 · A curator in the Department of Film, Dave Kehr, has organized “Frank Borzage and Man’s Castle,” a program of five films centered on the title picture. The others are “Bad Girl” (1931), “No Greater Glory” (1934), “Moonrise” (1948), and what is likeliest Borzage’s best film, “History Is Made at Night” (1937).
