66 across the panhandle of Texas.
He later said that he “bucked to do it” and that he put everything he had into it. Clarksville and Ozark and Van Buren and Fort Smith on 64, and there’s an end of Arkansas. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1945 // USA // Elia Kazan Letterboxd (LINK) The epitome of Hollywood sentimentalism, and another lower-class white-family struggling in life at the turn of the century. It is one of the most haunting, powerful and mysterious shots of any Hollywood movie of the era. I can’t wait to see what kind of movie it’s going to be.” But Zanuck was feeling pressure from all sides; it wasn’t until after Steinbeck had sold the movie rights that he found out about the studio’s ties to Chase National. The Great McGinty (Preston Sturges // USA), Travelling Actors (Mikio Naruse // Japan), Christmas in July (Preston Sturges // USA), Tuition (Choi In-kyu, Han-jun Bang // South Korea), Dance, Girl, Dance (Dorothy Arzner // USA), Went the Day Well? The names of those places trace the journey of the Joad family from Oklahoma to the supposed promise land (thank God, at last) of California. When it came time for Zanuck to assign a director to the film, John Ford was the most logical choice. What Steinbeck referred to as the “documentary” feel of the movie was a conscious strategy employed by Ford and Toland. I certainly didn’t expect so much fun from this dated fantasy silent film, but once the human-sized dog Nana popped up, I knew I’m in for a treat. 33 Comments | tags: John Ford, John Steinbeck, Joseph McBride, Searching for John Ford: A Life, The Grapes of Wrath | posted in Blu-ray/DVD Reviews, Film Reviews, "Clearly one of the best writers and critics on the internet" - Marilyn Ferdinand, "I find it difficult to think you teach film and suggest there's one milligram of connection between (Harmony) Korine and Wong Kar-Wai: there is none" - Jon Jost, "Very very interesting blog" - Marie Rivière. It boggles the mind. Zanuck, however, was also smart and fair and he didn’t have a problem producing films that espoused beliefs that were opposed to his own. Zanuck then gave Ford free reign to make the film as brutally realistic as he could. (Tex Avery), The Army (Keisuke Kinoshita); At Land (Maya Deren); The Curse of the Cat People (Robert Wise, Gunther von Fritsch); Jubilation Street (Keisuke Kinoshita); Le ciel est à vous (Jean Grémillon); Ministry of Fear (Fritz Lang); Phantom Lady (Robert Siodmak); This Happy Breed (David Lean // UK), And Then There Were None (René Clair); La barraca (Roberto Gavaldón); The Body Snatcher (Robert Wise); The Clock (Vincente Minnelli); Days of Hope (André Malraux, Boris Peskine); A Diary for Timothy (Humphrey Jennings); Paris Frills (Jacques Becker); The Picture of Dorian Gray (Albert Lewin); San Pietro (John Huston), Canyon Passage (Jacques Tourneur); The Girl I Loved (Keisuke Kinoshita); Green for Danger (Sidney Gilliat); The Killers (Robert Siodmak); My Darling Clementine (John Ford); The Private Life of a Cat (Alexander Hammid, Maya Deren); The Stranger (Orson Welles); Utamaro and His Five Women (Kenji Mizoguchi), Brute Force (Jules Dassin); Daisy Kenyon (Otto Preminger); Miracle on 34th Street (George Seaton); Odd Man Out (Carol Reed); Once More (Heinosuke Gosho); Ride the Pink Horse (Robert Montgomery); A Ship Bound for India (Ingmar Bergman); Snow Trail (Senkichi Taniguchi); T-Men (Anthony Mann), 3 Godfathers (John Ford); The Banquet (Hasse Ekman); Brighton Rock (John Boulting); Cry of the City (Robert Siodmak); Eva (Gustaf Molander); A Hen in the Wind (Yasujiro Ozu); Key Largo (John Huston); Moonrise (Frank Borzage); The Naked City (Jules Dassin); The Snake Pit (Anatole Litvak); They Caught the Ferry (Carl Theodor Dreyer); They Live by Night (Nicholas Ray); Unfaithfully Yours (Preston Sturges); A Visage to Remember (Heinosuke Gosho), Bezoek aan Picasso (Paul Haesaerts); Flame of My Love (Kenji Mizoguchi); Here’s to the Young Lady (Keisuke Kinoshita); Prison (Ingmar Bergman); Thieves’ Highway (Jules Dassin); The Quiet Duel (Akira Kurosawa). Tucumcari and Santa Rosa and into the New Mexico mountains to Albuquerque, where the road comes down from Santa Fe. Confucius (Fei Mu); Contraband (Michael Powell); My Favorite Wife (Garson Kanin); The Mark of Zorro (Rouben Mamoulian); Nobuko (Hiroshi Shimizu); The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor); The Postmaster (Gustav Ucicky); Pride and Prejudice (Robert Z. Leonard); The Sea Hawk (Michael Curtiz); The Thief of Bagdad (Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, Tim Whelan); Waterloo Bridge (Mervyn LeRoy); The Westerner (William Wyler), The 47 Ronin (Kenji Mizoguchi); 49th Parallel (Michael Powell); Here Comes Mr. Jordan (Alexander Hall); Hold Back the Dawn (Mitchell Leisen); Man Hunt (Fritz Lang); The Shanghai Gesture (Josef von Sternberg); Who Killed Santa Claus? I’m happy to report that these are qualities that come thrillingly alive like never before on Fox’s new Blu-ray of the film, the best it has ever looked on home video.
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New York: St. Martin’s, 2001. The agency reported back to Zanuck that the conditions were actually worse than what was in the novel.
When Zanuck sent a second unit director on the road to shoot semi-documentary footage of the Joad’s jalopy out on the highway, they used a dummy title, Highway 66, so that no one would know what they were really shooting. The Grapes of Wrath is a very dark film and this transfer boasts the impressive richness of film-like black levels while also showing an incredible level of detail: every wrinkle on every characters’ face seems visible, which really brings out the film’s documentary side. The Grapes of Wrath 1940 // USA // John Ford Letterboxd (LINK) “Above all else, it is the story of a family, the way it reacts, how it is shaken by a serious problem which overwhelms it. In particular, Ford and Toland intended to reproduce the style of Depression-era photographers like Dorothea Lange and government-produced documentary films like The Plow That Broke the Plains. Recently, the 1939 black and white classic just so happened to win the Large Association of Movie Blogs' Movie of the Month event… I guess most of us are quite familiar with the story of The Boy… Continue reading Peter Pan (Herbert Brenon, 1924). At this stage of his career, Ford’s politics were unambiguously liberal. (After the war they would become a complicated mixture of liberal and conservative but in 1937 Ford had described himself as “a definite Socialist Democrat, always left.”) Ford supported liberal causes throughout the 1930s, such as the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League, and had sent money to anti-Franco forces during the Spanish Civil War and to charities that supported displaced migrant farmers like the Joads. And now the high mountains. The novelist then set up a meeting with the mogul and told him, “If I had known your studio was controlled by a large bank, I would’ve never sold you the rights.” Steinbeck also said he was afraid that Zanuck was going to remove the “social significance” from the story.
McBride, Joseph. 1940 (Letterboxd List) The Great Dictator (Charles Chaplin // USA) His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks // USA) The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch // USA) The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford // USA) Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock // USA) Pinocchio (Hamilton Luske, Ben Sharpsteen // USA) The Great McGinty (Preston Sturges // USA) Foreign Correspondent (Alfred Hitchcock // USA) The Letter (William …
This semi-documentary style is a perfect visual correlative for Steinbeck’s semi-journalistic prose (the novel had its origins in a series of newspaper articles that the author had written about labor camps in the mid-1930s). Change ).
Needles, on the river. There’s a powerful scene early in the film where a poor farmer, Muley Graves (John Qualen), confronts a bank representative who tells him that his farm will be reposessed. This is because The Grapes of Wrath took an explicitly pro-labor, anti-capital stance. Zanuck was willing to overlook his disagreements with Ford because he knew that Ford was the best person for the job. In one of the greatest shots that Ford ever composed (which is saying a lot), he shows a harrowing scene from the Joads’ point-of-view as their jalopy enters the camp.
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