his mother is a 1912 american silent film produced by kalem company .

it was directed by sidney olcott with gene gauntier and jack j. clark in the leading roles .

it was one of more than a dozen films produced by the kalem company filmed in ireland for american audiences .

his mother ( 1912 film )

letters relating to the first world war service of 202 private john simpson kirkpatrick , 3rd field ambulance . the letters were written by john simpson to his mother , sarah kirkpatrick , between 7 january and 12 december 1912 . all of the letters were written on board ss kooringa from various ports around australia . file contains : letter from john simpson to his mother , 7 january 1912 ; letter from john simpson to his mother , 10 january 1912 ; letter from john simpson to his mother , 1 march 1912 ; letter from john simpson to his mother , 1 april 1912 ; letter from john simpson to his mother , 4 april 1912 ; letter from john simpson to his mother , 3 june 1912 ; letter from john simpson to his mother , 12 july 1912 ; letter from john simpson to his mother , 9 august 1912 ; letter from john simpson to his mother , 1 september 1912 ; letter from john simpson to his mother , 15 october 1912 ; letter from john simpson to his mother , 3 november 1912 ; letter from john simpson to his mother , 12 december 1912 .
mr . goring was born on the isle of wight in 1912 . his mother was a pianist and his father a doctor and criminologist .
references : kalem kalender , 5 january 1912 : 5 , 12 - 13 ; mpst , january 1912 : 66 - 72 .
gloria stuart was the only person involved in the production of the film who was actually living in 1912 .
“gauntier feature players . ” moving picture world ( 12 december 1912 ) : 1169 .
his mother . dir . : sidney olcott ( kalem company us 1912 ) cas . : gene gauntier , jack clark , si , b & w . archive : nla , ied .
but just a few years later in 1912 , as china boiled with revolution , his own adoptive mother , the empress dowager longyu , signed abdication papers forcing him from the dragon throne .
max and his young bride attempt to enjoy an alpine honeymoon , despite the presence of her mother .
the o ' kalem collection . dvd ( irish film institute 2011 ) - contains rory o ' more ( 1911 ) , the colleen bawn ( 1911 ) , you remember ellen ( 1912 ) , his mother ( 1912 ) , for ireland ' s sake ( 1914 ) , come back to erin ( 1914 ) , his mother ( dutch version ) , and documentary blazing the trail : the o ' kalems in ireland ( 2011 )
charlie was thrown on his own resources before he reached the age of ten as the early death of his father and the subsequent illness of his mother made it necessary for charlie and his brother , sydney , to fend for themselves .
one of the 50 films in the 4 - disk boxed dvd set called
treasures from american film archives ( 2000 )
, compiled by the national film preservation foundation from 18 american film archives . this film was preserved by the george eastman house .
the two men jack and his friend win the tickets off at the start of the film are call olaf and sven .
james green , author : i think he was being pushed into action by his own angry followers but by his own conscience , and by his own sense of responsibility , and his own deep anger at what had happened to his people .
a young boy , opressed by his mother , goes on an outing in the country with a social welfare group where he dares to dream of a land where the cares of his ordinary life fade .
only to learn that his mother has passed away ; his father had died earlier in the fighting . he leaves the farm to his younger brother and joins the u . s . cavalry . while protecting railroad - construction workers , he befriends jethro stuart (
the colleen bawn ( 1911 ) via irish film & tv research online database .
bruno , giuliana . “city views , the voyage of film images . ” in
while retaining his mental clarity , o & apos ; neill , at ever - more frequent intervals , would lose control of his arms and legs . reaching for a sheet of paper , his hand flew upward . attempting to walk forward , he stumbled backward . trying to clear his throat before speaking , his tongue clove to his palate , his voice emerging as a croak , his words unformed .
continuing where his trust ( 1911 ) leaves off , george , a slave , takes care of his deceased master ' s daughter after her mother ' s death . he sacrifices his own meager savings to give the girl a . . . see full summary »
max is invited to join his uncle for a holiday , but he hasn ' t invited his wife , so he sneaks her in in his suitcase , always hiding her from his uncle . . .
the son of hannah chaplin and leo dryden , wheeler dryden was taken away from his mother as a baby . he was touring india and the far east as a vaudeville comedian when he first learned from his father that the famous charlie chaplin was his half brother .
a wealthy american touristic couple happen upon a talented violinist , terence , and his mother in a small cottage in rural ireland . terence grasps the opportunity and , thanks to his mother’s meagre savings , leaves his peasant roots in ireland for the bright lights of the new york stage – but he has abandoned his poor long - suffering mother along the way . he thrives in new york society where back home his pining mother is encouraged by the local priest to join him , and she arrives at a concert he is playing in carnegie hall , finding her way to his fine society home where an emotional reunion with terence takes place . like the earlier the lad from old ireland , this film was also shot on two continents in rural and urban locations and aboard a transatlantic liner in between – adding visual variety and authenticity to the tale .
mother jones rushed to the scene :
on a mattress , wet with blood , lay a miner ,
she wrote .
his brains had been blown out while he slept . in five other shacks men lay dead . in one of them a baby boy and his mother sobbed over the father ' s corpse .
down through the ages . dir . : sidney olcott ( kalem co . us 1912 ) si , b & w . archive : gbb .
the lad from old ireland ( 1910 ) via irish film & tv research online .
rory o ' more ( 1911 ) via irish film & tv research online database .
the first film james cameron ever directed that did not include or mention nuclear weapons .
the third film about the titanic to be made by 20th century fox , following cavalcade ( 1933 ) [ then known as fox film ] and titanic ( 1953 ) .
an irish mother uses her life savings to pay for her son , a talented musician , to study in america .
scholars discuss violence , militancy , and political struggle at the time of mother jones and the miners ' unionization movement .
paul jackson pollock was born on january 28 , 1912 in cody , wyoming . his father , leroy pollock , was a farmer and a government land surveyor , and his mother , stella may mcclure , was a fierce woman with artistic ambitions . the youngest of five brothers , he was a needy child and was often in search of attention that he did not receive .
he finally agreed to appear before the cameras at the expiration of his vaudeville commitments in november 1913 ; and his entrance in the cinema world took place that month when he joined mack sennett and the keystone film company . his initial salary was $ 150 a week , but his overnight success on the screen spurred other producers to start negotiations for his services .
at the age of 80 , he wrote his autobiography , the public is never wrong . his closing line of the book was “the film industry is still in swaddling clothes . the great days lie in the future . ” his optimism never abated .
before announcing development of this film , director james cameron shot footage of icebergs off the coast of nova scotia under the pretense of making a film titled
planet ice .
on june 6 , he noted in his work diary the ideas for two plays . one was the iceman cometh , a soulful meditation on the most destructive period of his youth , which he completed in december , 1939 . the other was the play that would bare the dark family secrets that had shaped his tragic vision : his deeply troubled relationship with his famous actor - father gripped since childhood by a terror of poverty ; with his morphine - addicted mother and with his cynical , alcoholic older brother .
narrator : the morning after mother jones ' speech , miners up and down cabin creek began to walk off the job .
narrator : at 18 , keeney was still supporting his mother and two sisters , as well as his new bride , bessie meadows . he took the best paying job he could get - - digging coal at 40 cents a ton .
on august sixth , 1912 , mother jones arrived in keeney ' s hometown , the only town in cabin creek not controlled by a coal operator . keeney had gathered a big crowd . they all wanted to see the woman known as
the miner ' s angel .
his wife , carlotta , a maternal , protective presence for the past ten years , was helpless to soothe his pain . a dedicated diarist , she noted on june 21 , 1939 :
gene talks to me for hours about a play ( in his mind ) of his mother , his father , his brother and himself ( in his early 20 % ) in new london ! ( autobiography ) . a hot , close , sleepless night—an ache in our hearts for things we can & apos ; t escape !
in addition to relatives and friends , members of the naples artistic community participated in dora film production activities , including michele di giacomo , brother of the illustrious poet salvatore , who is said to have authored some of notari’s films . in several interviews , however , gennariello insists that his mother was responsible for directing and writing all of dora film’s productions , including adaptations :
the line
now you may get your headline , mr . ismay .
is the last phrase in the film before the cut off in the double disc version of the film .
narrator : keeney and mooney checked with the white house . the president , they were told , had sent no communication to mother jones . an angry keeney issued a public statement calling the telegram
bogus .
mother jones left west virginia that night .
chuck keeney , historian : mother jones wrote later that when keeney turned on her . it kind of ripped her heart out .
he never knew when he would be ambushed . his symptoms varied in intensity , possibly aggravated by emotional stress . even as a young man his hands had trembled slightly , a trait he believed he had inherited from his mother and which doubtless was exacerbated by the excesses of a derelict , alcoholic youth .
the last remaining survivor of the titanic was millvina dean born 2 feb 1912 . she died 31st may 2009 aged 97 . she never married or had children .
james cameron said his original pitch for the film consisted of his showing the fox studio executives a book full of famous titanic paintings by ken marschall and said
this ship . . . romeo and juliet .
billy zane was cast after james cameron saw him in the film the phantom ( 1996 ) .
narrator : at christmastime 1912 , as the strike headed into its eighth month , mother jones made a visit to the camps in southern west virginia , delivering shoes , clothes and presents for children . frank and bessie keeney , and their four children , rang in the new year in a tent .
adolph zukor was born in the village of ricse , hungary , on january 7 , 1873 . a year later , his father died . his mother , who never fully recovered from the death of her husband , despite remarrying , died seven years after that . as his stepfather had no use for adolph , he was sent off to live with his uncle , kalman lieberman .
the staircase is not technically accurate , being slightly larger in the film than it was in real life . this is because people in 1997 were a bit taller than in 1912 so they would have looked out of place on a staircase that fit the correct dimensions .
narrator : mother jones heard the knock on her hotel room door in charleston that muggy july night , and found frank keeney standing outside ,
with tears in his eyes ,
she recalled .
narrator : mother jones raced back to west virginia to rally the miners in mingo county . a bright new day was coming , she told a crowd of more than 1 , 500 . in matewan , mother jones posed for publicity photos with sid hatfield and other union supporters .
umw membership in west virginia dwindled from 50 , 000 in 1920 to less than a thousand in 1930 , the year mother jones died .
james cameron wrote the film as a four hour epic . it was cut down to three hours .
the second film about the titanic to win the best picture oscar , after cavalcade ( 1933 ) .
even though the film brought them great fame , both leonardo dicaprio and kate winslet are now embarrassed by their performances in this film . winslet called her american accent
awful
and feels that her acting
could have been better
, while dicaprio called himself a
young punk
in this film .
the only surviving print of this film was discovered in the holdings of the dutch filmmuseum in the netherlands . the version released on dvd by the irish film institute retains the dutch intertitles found in this print .
o & apos ; neill & apos ; s focus for the play was the eventful summer of 1912 when , about to turn twenty - four , he was pulled up short by a frightening ( if short - lived ) attack of tuberculosis . it also marked a crucial stage in his mother & apos ; s chronic morphine addiction and a time when his father was forced to confront the fading career that had soared during the late 19th century .
o & apos ; neill viewed his convent - educated and seemingly fragile , drug - dependent mother as crushed by life & apos ; s calamities but nevertheless a woman both manipulative and formidable in her helplessness .
early in 1918 , chaplin entered into an agreement with first national exhibitors’ circuit , a new organization specially formed to exploit his pictures . his first film under this new deal was “a dog’s life” . after this production , he turned his attention to a national tour on behalf of the war effort , following which he made a film the us government used to popularize the liberty loan drive : “the bond” .
a party of americans visiting the lakes of killarney . ireland , hear the sound of sweet music coming from a nearby cottage . on investigation they find a young man playing the violin and in rapt attention his old mother sitting by the fireside . one of the tourists , john foster , recognizing the musical genius , gives the lad , terence , his card and tells him if he ever comes to america to call and see him at his office . for weeks and months after the tourists have paid their visit to the humble cottage terence dreams of a musical career in the states . to gratify his desire his self - sacrificing mother surrenders her life ' s savings to pay the boy ' s passage . arriving in america terence locates the office of john foster and tells of his ambition . the kind - hearted banker arranges to start the irish boy on his career . a year later we find terence the lion of the season , but sad to say he thinks seldom of his old mother and killarney . the mother in despair , when no news comes from her boy , tells . . .
film showing the bayshore amusement park in its heyday , preserved by the maryland historical society with nfpf support .
early in production , this film ' s brief
decoy
working title was
planet ice
.
was the highest - grossing film in japan until hayao miyazaki ' s spirited away ( 2001 ) opened .
in his study o & apos ; neill , with habitual precision , had arranged his outlines , scenarios and drafts , as well as the notebooks that accompanied him wherever he lived—the sort he had been cramming with ideas for the future since 1912 when he first began writing plays at the age of twenty - four .
his mother - in - law , whom jones has never seen , writes her daughter she will visit her for a few days . she encloses photograph of herself . mrs . jones takes the photograph from the envelope and replaces it with a comic post card , labeled
his mother - in - law ,
advertising a show by that name . jones reads the letter . he is furious , leaves the house in a
peeve .
he meets a bill - poster putting up a one sheet of the play
his mother - in - law .
in a mix - up with the poster he comes out second best . he goes home and hides behind a screen , ready to give his wife ' s mother a warm reception . she enters . he beholds a sweet , kindly lady , with whom he at once falls in love . his wife shouts with laughter :
april fool !
keeney grabbed for the telegram . mother jones snapped it away . he suggested it was probably a fake . she told him to go to hell .
titanic is the most oscar - nominated film ( with 14 nominations ) not to win in any acting categories .
in 1998 it became the first film since 1966 to win the oscar for best picture but not be nominated for its screenplay ( the previous film to hold this
honor
was the sound of music ( 1965 ) .
narrator : four days after hatfield ' s funeral , frank keeney , fred mooney and mother jones called for a rally at the state capitol in charleston .
his next starring role came in another british film , ' ' mr . perrin and mr . traill , ' ' in which he played a foolish mathematics professor laid low by love .
ancient temples of egypt . dir . : sidney olcott ( kalem company us 1912 ) cas . : gene gauntier , jack clark , si , b & w , 16mm . archive : usr .
james cameron met his fifth wife , suzy amis , on the set of this film . he was technically still married to linda hamilton but they had been living apart for some time . of all his marriages , the one with amis has lasted the longest .
to take up film making again , as an exile , was a challenging undertaking . he was now nearing 70 . for almost forty years he had enjoyed the luxury of his own studio and a staff of regular employees , who understood his way of work . now though he had to work with strangers , in costly and unfriendly rented studios . the film shows the strain .
stempel , tom . framework : a history of screenwriting in the american film . new york : continuum , 1991 .
—collaborated on the film , the story is told seamlessly , backed by the solid performances of its cast . filmed in
the first film to be released on video ( dvd / vhs ) while it was still being shown in theaters .
charles spencer chaplin was born in london , england , on april 16th , 1889 . his father was a versatile vocalist and actor ; and his mother , known under the stage name of lily harley , was an attractive actress and singer , who gained a reputation for her work in the light opera field .
in the late 1960s , after the years spent trying to forget it , chaplin returned to the circus to re - release it with a new musical score of his own composition . it seemed to symbolize his reconciliation to the film which cost him so much stress .
narrator : with mother jones leading the charge , thousands of west virginia miners decided to stand with the strikers in pennsylvania , and to fight for their own rights .
he scored an immediate hit with american audiences , particularly with his characterization in a sketch entitled “a night in an english music hall” . when the fred karno troupe returned to the united states in the fall of 1912 for a repeat tour , chaplin was offered a motion picture contract .
in preference to hiring new extras all the time and repeatedly having to fit them for clothes and coach them in proper 1912 mannerisms , a group of 150
core extras
was hired who would stay with the picture through the entire production . they and other performers learned proper 1912 behavior in a 3 - hour course from lynne hockney , who was also the film ' s choreographer . hockney also produced a video
titanic etiquette : a time traveler ' s guide
, which was then left playing continuously in the wardrobe department .
the only film to win both the academy award for best picture and the nickelodeon kids ' choice award for favorite movie .
was the highest - box office film in south korea until je - kyu kang ' s swiri ( 1999 ) opened .
when indians attack a white settlement , a brave kidnaps a white baby to give to his wife as a replacement for their dead baby . the white mother goes to the indian camp to look for her child . . . see full summary »
he also became an excellent fur designer , striking out on his own as a contract worker at 19 , selling his own furs . zukor clearly had the entrepreneurial bug , the desire to be the master of his own fate .
eugene curran kelly was born in pittsburgh , pennsylvania , on august 23 , 1912 , the middle son of five children . his father was canadian - born and loved sports , especially hockey . every winter kelly sr . would flood the family backyard and make an ice rink for hockey .
jack talks about going ice fishing on lake wissota in chippewa falls as a child . when the titanic sank in 1912 , the lake had not been created yet . it was created by a dam in 1917 .
his mother - in - law , whom jones has never seen , writes her daughter she will visit her for a few days . she encloses photograph of herself . mrs . jones takes the photograph from the envelope . . . see full summary »
once more max adopts subterfuge in order to pursue his amours , but , unfortunately , pa requests attention to his cornuted extremities . max is forcibly ejected for his
pains ,
and suffers , . . . see full summary »
the film contains over 100 speaking parts and over 1000 extras , all of whom needed to be dressed in lavish period costume .
narrator : mother jones decided to take matters into her own hands . she arrived at the miners ' camp on august 24th , and a crowd gathered to hear her speak .
a coal miner and long - time west virginia resident reflects on his time working in the mines , and his family ' s life in a company town .
he died on christmas day 1977 , survived by eight children from his last marriage with oona o’neill , and one son from his short marriage to lita grey .
chaplin was in the throes of the break - up of his marriage with lita grey ; and production of the circus coincided with one of the most unseemly and sensational divorces of twenties hollywood , as lita’s lawyers sought every means to ruin chaplin’s career by smearing his reputation . as if his domestic troubles were not enough , the film seemed fated to catastrophe of every kind .
leonardo dicaprio and kate winslet both admitted that they were embarrassed by their performances in this film . winslet thought her american accent sounded horrible and that her acting could ' ve been better while dicaprio thought he looked like a
young punk
in this film .
the story of this film is particularly interesting , because our old friend max has recently undergone a very serious operation , and this is his first reappearance . he plays this little . . . see full summary »
she was the notorious
mother
jones - - there to convince the coal miners in the area to join her union : the united mine workers of america , the umw .
mother jones , her followers , and her antagonists would turn the coalfields of southern west virginia into a blood - soaked war zone where basic constitutional rights and freedoms were violently contested .
chaplin’s son sydney plays the young , talented pianist who vies with calvero for the young ballerina’s heart , and several other chaplin family members participated in the film . it was when on the boat travelling with his family to the london premiere of limelight that chaplin learned that his re - entry pass to the united states had been rescinded based on allegations regarding his morals and politics .
at 83 , in 1956 , he lost his beloved wife of 59 years , lottie . his son , eugene , reminisced , courtesy of interviews with author gabler :
after an extended vacation , chaplin returned to hollywood to resume his picture work and start his active association with united artists . under his arrangement with u . a . , chaplin made eight pictures , each of feature length , in the following order :
in interviews following her husband & apos ; s death , she tried to convey his creative struggle . after eating his breakfast on a tray in his bedroom at 7 : 30 , he shut himself into his study to work until one o & apos ; clock .
he would come out of his study looking gaunt , his eyes red from weeping . sometimes he looked ten years older than when he went in in the morning . for a while he tried to have lunch downstairs with me .
arrivederci e augurali , 1906 - 1912 : alla luigi xiv , arriverderci movimentati a colori , ballerina e buffoncello , ballo delle farfalle , bebè in giardino , bebè in salotto , bebè va a letto , bebè vi saluta , buona sera piccante , buone feste , la campagnuola , il cherubino , cineattualità , la ciociaretta , colombi e biricchino , colombi viaggiatori , cucù settè , cuoco sansone , coscritto , finali , folletto di fiamma , fra le stelle , fotografia a sorpresa , musica ‘a ballo , la preghiera di bebè , scugnizzo napoletano , sui fili telefonici , tarantella , titoli e sottotitoli , valzer d’amor ; l’accalappiacani , 1909 ; capri incantevole , 1909 ; posillipo da napoli , 1909 ; il processo cuocolo , 1909 ; l’incrociatore corazzato “san giorgio’ incagliato alla gaiola / la nave san giorgio / la corazzata san giorgio , 1911 ; preparativi guerreschi a napoli , 1911 ; capri pittorecso , 1912 ; cattura di un pazzo a bagnoli , 1912 ; guerra italo - turca tra scugnizzi napoletani / caratteristica guerra italo - turca fra i nostri monelli napoletani / caratteristica guerra italo - turca tra i nostril scugnizzi napoletani , 1912 ; rivista navale dell’11 novembre 1912 , 1914 .
the circus won charles chaplin his first academy award – it was still not yet called the ‘oscar’ – he was given it at the first presentations ceremony , in 1929 . but as late as 1964 , it seemed , this was a film he preferred to forget . the reason was not the film itself , but the deeply fraught circumstances surrounding its making .
if measured by ticket sales rather than dollar gross , this would rank as the fifth most attended film of all time domestically , having sold an estimated 128 million tickets in its initial run and another 7 million after its 2012 reissue . it was the most attended film of the 1990s and the most attended film since e . t . the extra - terrestrial ( 1982 ) ( 136 million estimated tickets ) .
caledon nathan hockley was born in 1882 . he was from philadelphia , pennsylvania . it is unknown who his mother was , but his father was nathan hockley , a successful american pittsburgh steel tycoon who was very respected and powerful . he was tall , standing at 6 ' ½
( 1 . 84 m ) . he was known to have travelled to england where he met rose and her mother ruth dewitt bukater . ruth arranged a marriage between rose and cal , despite rose ' s dislike towards him , and they were to marry in philadelphia after their voyage on titanic . not much else is known about his early life .
born on january 28 , 1912 , in cody , wyoming , artist jackson pollock studied under thomas hart benton before leaving traditional techniques to explore abstraction expressionism via his splatter and action pieces , which involved pouring paint and other media directly onto canvases . pollock was both renowned and critiqued for his conventions . he died after driving drunk and crashing into a tree in new york in 1956 , at age 44 .
captured by bedouins . dir . : sidney olcott , sc . : gene gauntier ( kalem company us 1912 ) cas . : gene gauntier , jack clark , si , b & w , 35mm . archive : usw , gbb .
winning a widow . dir . : sidney olcott , sc . : gene gauntier ( kalem company us 1912 ) cas . : gene gauntier , jack clark , si , b & w , 16mm . archive : usl , gbb .
you remember ellen . dir . : sidney olcott , sc . : gene gauntier ( kalem company us 1912 ) cas . : gene gauntier , jack clark , si , b & w , 35mm . archive : usr , ied .
came eighth in the uk ' s ultimate film , in which films were placed in order of how many seats they sold at cinemas .
was selected for preservation in the national film registry by the library of congress in 2017 for being
culturally historically and aesthetically significant
.
the mine wars had shattered his marriage , distanced him from much of his family , and left his professional life in shambles . keeney had wriggled free of the treason charge , but umw president john l . lewis had forced him to resign from the union .
although gene kelly established his reputation as an actor and a dancer , his contribution to the hollywood , california , musical also includes choreography ( creating dances ) and movie direction .
about the music for this marvelously crafted , heartfelt , and disturbing film , i turned first to some of schumann’s piano miniatures from his album for the young : notably , an exquisitely simple piece appropriately titled “the poor orphan child . ” in addition , i felt a need for a “maternal” soprano voice , singing songs periodically to comment on the film’s meanings . the singer is margaret o’keefe ( a colleague at mit ) , and the selections consist entirely of songs available to singers at the time the film was made . one of these , “beautiful isle of somewhere” ( pounds , fearis , 1897 ) , was reissued in 1901 , after being sung at the funeral of president mckinley . it is heard at the beginning and again near the end of the film , thus constituting a kind of theme song . indeed , it seems very like the sort of lullaby the boy of the story might imagine being sung to him by his absent mother .
kelly ' s other major influence was his mother , who loved the theater . she was the one who sent him to dancing lessons . at first kelly did not want to continue with his dance lessons because the other students made fun of him . but then he discovered that the girls liked a boy who could dance , so he decided to stick with the lessons .
i have seen nearly all of the surviving max linder comedies and have enjoyed them . he was amazingly inventive and when i found one i had not seen (
max and his mother - in - law
) i grabbed a copy . sadly , i was disappointed and it wasn ' t nearly up to the quality of his other films . the film begins with max getting married . in an odd twist , he takes his mother - in - law with them on their honeymoon - - something that stretches credibility to the breaking point when it comes to plot ! on the honeymoon in the snow - capped mountains , his chunky in - law falls down a lot in the snow and there are a few other pratfalls - - but no humor . in fact , i ' ve seen dramas that were funnier than this one . my advice is try another one of his films first - - such as
max takes tonics
. he was a brilliant pioneer .
[ june 2008 ] ranked # 6 on the american film institute ' s list of the 10 greatest films in the genre
epic
.
mother jones left the state with little to show for her efforts , but she did not forget the mountain hollows , or the people in them . and she suspected she had unfinished business there .
for his son was one of d . w . griffith ' s early effective drama shorts
winsor mccay , the famous cartoonist of the n . y . herald and his moving comics
jack dawson ' s signature is based on the way james cameron signs his own drawings .
looking for ways to grow his new company and use his ample cash reserves , goldenson in 1951 purchased the american broadcasting company ( abc ) , a distant third in the television race against giants nbc and cbs . goldenson hoped to use movies to boost his network’s position .
o & apos ; neill was wrenchingly aware that in reimagining his family & apos ; s devastating interaction—husband embattled with wife , mother and father both in bitter conflict with their two sons , brother challenging brother—he had the makings of his greatest work , the play that was to take its place as the monumental american tragedy of the century , long day & apos ; s journey into night .
harner , gary . “the kalem company , travel , and on - location shooting . ” film history 10 ( 1988 ) : 118 - 207 .
production of the film began in 1995 when james cameron shot footage of the real wreck of the titanic . he was able to persuade 20th century fox to invest in the film by convincing them that the publicity surrounding a real - life dive to the wreck would be really beneficial to the production .
was the last first - run film to have a 70mm release until the master ( 2012 ) . james cameron paid for the 70mm prints himself .
bernard fox appeared as lookout frederick fleet in a night to remember ( 1958 ) ( uncredited ) and as col . archibald gracie in this film .
marcus loew felt that perhaps zukor’s ambition had been too great , his moves too fast . he watched the construction of the new building from his office across the street . gabler says ,
not only did he bribe puyi ' s adoptive mother , but he also corrupted her closest eunuch , xiao dezheng , and prince yikuang , one of the most powerful men at court , said mr jia .
chuck keeney , historian : in the summer of 1912 keeney ' s wife bessie was eight months pregnant . his kids were sick . they don ' t have enough food to feed their children . three hundred baldwin - felts detectives had set up machine gun emplacements all around cabin creek . so this was when they were at their most desperate hour .
in the 1958 titanic film
a night to remember
, most of the scenes of the titanic sinking are seen from the ship ' s port ( left ) side . in cameron ' s film , most of the sinking scenes are seen from the ship ' s starboard ( right ) side .
caleb deschanel was the first cinematographer . he clashed with james cameron over the lighting of the film and was eventually fired to be replaced by russell carpenter .
and he was always worried about the single biggest line item in his budget : labor costs . collins meant to keep the wage - inflating union out of his mines , whatever it took .
narrator : mother jones was constantly on the lookout for promising young lieutenants during her earliest trips to southern west virginia . one man who caught her eye was a 20 - year - old miner named frank keeney .
the opening was originally going to be an irishman painting the word ' titanic ' . during that same scene , it is not , as believed by some , a real film from her departure in 1912 . james cameron wanted to use actual footage , but at the time there was none . so he attempted to create what he thought took place . however after the movie was released , some actual footage was discovered .
even before he began city lights , the sound film was firmly established . this new revolution was a bigger challenge to chaplin than to other silent stars . his tramp character was universal . his mime was understood in every part of the world . but if the tramp now began to speak in english , that world - wide audience would instantly shrink .
it has been said that zukor predicted he would “outlive all his enemies , ” though with his partnerships and friendships with almost everyone in the industry , competitors might be a more fitting word than enemies . but adolph’s prediction turned out to be right . he outlived virtually everyone of his generation .
one young coal miner was already preparing for the battles to come . frank keeney had gone back to his job in the mines , but he was also reading shakespeare , and poetry , and mother jones ' s favorite novel - - les miserables - - about a working - class revolt in 19th century france .
to me , adolph zukor was the greatest showman of his generation . his appreciations of programming , promotion , and advertising remained unfailing almost up to his death … his mind remained crystal clear . he wanted to know everything about each picture . not only paramount’s films but those of the other studios as well . he made the most astute observations as to why a picture didn’t do well . his counsel benefited the company almost to the day he died , at age 103 , in 1976 .
concerned for pollock & apos ; s well - being , krasner called on pollock & apos ; s mother to help . her presence helped to stabilize pollock , and he began to paint again . he completed his masterpiece , the deep , during this period . but as the demand from collectors for pollock & apos ; s art grew , so too did the pressure he felt , and with it his alcoholism .
experimental film , white specks and shapes gyrating over a black background , a light - striped torso , a gyrating eggcrate . one of the first dadaist films .
composer james horner said in an interview that after he first saw a rough version of the film he went home and wrote all the themes in 20 minutes .
the run time of the film , according to the double disc version of titanic is 107 minutes for the first disc and 87 minutes for the second disc .
he apparently passed his genes or his will to live to his son , eugene , who lived to 97 . eugene’s wife had died a year earlier , after 73 years of marriage . both men were the ultimate family men , in an industry not known for marital fidelity . more from eugene :
at $ 200 million , the movie cost more than the titanic itself . the cost to construct the ship in 1910 - 1912 was £1 . 5 million , equivalent to $ 7 . 5 million at the time and about $ 120 to $ 150 million in 1997 dollars .
karl malden , ( mladen sekulovich ) , american actor ( born march 22 , 1912 , chicago , ill . —died july 1 , 2009 , los angeles , calif . ) , won critical acclaim for his strong character roles , ranging from psychologically intense villains to the earnest everyman , most notably alongside marlon brando in a streetcar named desire ( 1951 ) and on the waterfront …
famous 20th century artist jackson pollock revolutionized the world of modern art with his unique abstract painting techniques .
lakeith stanfield and his sorry to bother you director boots riley discuss the stress of filming sex scenes .
his directorial debut , “hell’s angels , ” was one of the most expensive movies of its time .
mother jones could not have known it that spring , but she had sparked a fight that would escalate over the next 20 years from an unremarkable skirmish between capital and labor to the largest armed insurrection since the civil war .
leonardo dicaprio and kate winslet committed to the film even before the script was written , on the basis only of a 165 - page outline james cameron had written .
the second film about the titanic to show the ship splitting in two and first officer william murdoch committing suicide , after the 1996 television miniseries directed by robert lieberman .
in a hotel suite in boston , carlotta nursed her husband during the grueling final months of his illness , a martyrdom o & apos ; neill rewarded by willing to her the sole control of his estate .
in early 20th century britain , the cause of female suffrage was usually ignored by the press and dismissed by politicians . to gain support for their right to vote , suffragettes turned away from peaceful protest and embraced militant tactics that grew to include window breaking and arson . their fight for equality , which escalated in violence in 1912 and 1913 , is depicted in the new film suffragette . the movie also shows historical figures and fictional characters interacting as they struggle to get women the vote . here are six real - life suffragettes ( plus one man ) who either appear in suffragette or whose stories are reflected in the film .
one of his biggest challenges was finding actors who could make the transition from stage to film . few knew how to perform for a camera . one young stage star , mary pickford , had done some film work , and zukor offered her $ 500 a week compared to the $ 175 she was making on broadway . by 1916 , she was being paid $ 10 , 000 a week , the equivalent of $ 220 , 000 today .
later in life , cal married someone else and inherited his family ' s millions . however , in the stock market crash of 1929 , cal fell into financial ruin and committed suicide by shooting himself in the mouth . his children later fought over the scraps of his estate like hyenas as rose claimed she read .
true or not , it is a typically o & apos ; neillian irony that he might well have remained all but forgotten in his own country if his instructions to withhold the play had been honored . for it was the play & apos ; s premature release that revived , with full glory , o & apos ; neill & apos ; s stature . and all because his willful widow chose to contravene his wishes .
bland , robert henderson . from manger to cross : the story of the world - famous film of the life of jesus . london : hodder and stoughton , 1922 .
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cast : jack j clark ( terence , the violinist ) , anna clark ( terence’s mother ) , j p mcgowan ( john foster , an american banker ) . gene gauntier ( foster’s daughter ) , alice hollister , arthur donaldson .
not surprisingly , then , in choosing his next subject he deliberately sought escape from disagreeable contemporary reality . he found it in bitter - sweet nostalgia for the world of his youth – the world of the london music halls at the opening of the 20th century , where he had first discovered his genius as an entertainer .
paul rudd auditioned for the lead male role because his own father had been an avid titanic historian . despite his being able to reel off factual technical stats about the great ship , the casting team remained unimpressed .
in the film chaplin plays a dual role –a jewish barber who lost his memory in a plane accident in the first war , and spent years in hospital before being discharged into an antisemite country that he does not understand , and hynkel , the dictator leader of tomania , whose armies are the forces of the double cross , and who will do anything along those lines to increase his possibilities for becoming emperor of the world . chaplin’s aim is obvious , and the film ends with a now famous and humanitarian speech made by the barber , speaking chaplin’s own words .
a week later , more than three thousand marchers pushed through armed militiamen and followed mother jones and frank keeney to a rally on the steps of the capitol . they were there to persuade governor william glasscock to abolish the mine guard system .
during the corset scene , it is originally rose who is supposed to be tightening her mother ' s corset . however , james cameron and the actresses felt that the scene had much more of an effect of rose being in the corset .
the woman hater’s baby . ( powers film company us 1915 ) cas . : gene gauntier , jack clark , si , b & w , 35mm . archive : usw .
further information and viewing for the charitable work of the fresh air fund , see urltoken . another nonprofit organization , the national child labor committee , collaborated with the edison company in 1912 to make children who labor , which is included in the more treasures from american film archives dvd set . more edison one - reelers from the 1910s , preserved by the museum of modern art , can now be seen in kino international’s 2005 dvd set edison : the invention of the movies .
during the 1920s dora film distributed their filmed sceneggiate to overseas markets with italian immigrant populations , in the united states , for example , to baltimore and new york , as well as to south american cities . often the film prints were accompanied by singers who performed the soundtrack ( bruno 1997 , 51 ) . of the few surviving prints of notari’s entire film career , all are sceneggiate or fragments of the form , although fantasia ‘e surdate ( 1925 ) is incomplete and was reedited by notari after it did not pass fascist censorship .
mother jones issued an ominous warning :
unless the governor rids paint creek and cabin creek of these god - damned baldwin - felts mine guard thugs , there is going to be one hell of a lot of bloodletting in these hills .
the time of his abdication was a time of corrupting and buying government officials ,
said mr jia .
when his contract with mutual expired in 1917 , chaplin decided to become an independent producer in a desire for more freedom and greater leisure in making his movies . to that end , he busied himself with the construction of his own studios . this plant was situated in the heart of the residential section of hollywood at la brea avenue .
by now , carlotta was herself ailing . she could no longer summon the boundless resilience with which she had dedicated her life to o & apos ; neill & apos ; s nurture and comfort ; her nerves tattered , she had lost the vitality to focus on his needs or sympathize with his temperament . their self - imposed exile , unsurprisingly , was anything but tranquil . dejected over his progressive frailty and unable to release the torrents of his imagination through writing , o & apos ; neill seemed bent on wrenching what drama he could from his domestic life .


to each his own is a 1946 american romantic drama film .

it was directed by mitchell leisen , and stars olivia de havilland , mary anderson , roland culver , and john lund in his first on-screen appearance , where he played dual roles as father and son .

the screenplay was written by charles brackett and jacques théry .

a young woman bears a child out of wedlock and has to give him up .

de havilland won the academy award for best actress .

brackett and théry were nominated for best writing , original story .

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relax , don ' t do it : salesman takashi aoyama ( asuka kudo ) and the mysterious yamamoto ( sota fukushi ) are poles apart in ' to each his own . ' | © 2017 ' to each his own ' film partners
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the lady bug is the only film directed by a female on the 2007 anthology dvd to each his own cinema , and that would be the new zealander jane champion , who also directed a girl’s own story .
darkness / dans l’obscurite is a short film directed by the dardenne brothers of belgium in 2007 for the dvd anthology to each his cinema .
the electric princess picture house is a short film directed by hou hsiao - hsien for the 2007 anthology dvd collection to each his cinema .
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mitchell leisen , for his part , characteristically eschews strong moralizing . thus , to each his own is surprisingly direct in its handling of an unwed mother , paralleling jody ' s increasing coldness with the detached – but honest – flashbacks that comprise the bulk of the film .
diaro di uno spettatore / diary of a moviegoer is a short film which was directed by nanni moretti of italy in 2007 for the dvd collection to each his own cinema . also of interest , there is only one actor within this whole short film , and that is moretti himself .
practically radio , after the credits , the dark but effective opening to mitchell leisen ' s to each his own , 1946 , starring olivia de havilland , from charles brackett ' s original story . >
with the headline : the screen in review ; ' to each his own , ' a paramount picture at radio city , stars olivia de havilland in role of woman who faces plights .
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family relationship switcheroo : greg is told that jody is his
aunt
thats close to his family .
to each his own mask is a challenging artistic documentary by filmmaker and visual artist tine guns , linked to her installation perpetual moment of pause that was exhibited at netwerk aalst , lhgwr in the hague and ostrale in dresden .
olivia de havilland won her first best actress academy award for her work in to each his own . three years later , she became a two - time winner with william wyler ' s drama the heiress .
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to each his own ( 1946 ) is a melodrama about the love and losses of jody norris who becomes an unwed mother during the early twentieth century . mitchell leisen directs and olivia de havilland stars in the film that won her her first academy award for best actress .
the dybbuk of haifa / le dibbouk de haifa is a short film by israeli director amos gitai for the 2007 dvd anthology to each his own cinema . the title more literally means “the possessed spirit of haifa” for a dybbuk can project themselves into a living person to continue or repeat their previous life , hence why this film references the siege of warsaw .
movie night / en regardant le film is a short film directed by zhang yimou in 2007 for the dvd anthology , to each his cinema . he also directed a segment of the lumiere and company anthology as i mentioned in my march 4th post about that collection .
* * also via it ' s the pictures that got small : the husband and wife team of albert hackett and frances goodrich had been working on what eventually became to each his own as early as fall 1943 .
anna is a short film which was directed in 2007 by alejandro gonzález iñárritu for the dvd anthology , to each his cinema . additionally , he also directed the segment mexico for the 11’09″01 september 11 collection .
to each his own ( 1946 ) , one of leisen’s most highly regarded films , earned the respect of critics who praised his deft , sensitive handling of a story that might have easily descended into maudlin melodrama in another director’s hands . de havilland won an academy award for…
olivia de havilland , who had starred in the 1941 melodrama hold back the dawn , returns to the wartime milieu in to each his own ( 1946 ) , once again under the direction of mitchell leisen , who guides the proceedings with his characteristic sincerity while cleverly skirting the production code ' s restrictive guidelines .
( 1969 ) , released within a month of each other and went on to become golden jubilee blockbusters .
someone to remember him by : the irony here is that jody cant even call her son her own .
to each his own was nominated for two academy awards , earning olivia de havilland her first best actress oscar following two nominations and a major lawsuit against her former studio , warner bros . , that kept her off the screen for more than two years .
the specter of the death of cinema and the communal movie experience hangs like an ironic shroud over “to each his own cinema , ” a mostly engaging compilation of 33 three - minute films made by leading international auteurs on the occasion of the cannes film festival’s 60th birthday . venture was conceived and produced by fest prexy gilles [ … ]
( 1973 ) . but while lane now has recognition for his participation in these films , it is as a cultural correspondent , journalist , and film critic that he really makes his mark .
† final one from the charles brackett diaries : besides olivia de havilland , three other actresses were considered for the female lead in to each his own . they were ginger rogers , greta garbo , and – according to brackett ' s interpretation of a mitchell leisen query – claudette colbert .
turn out like his father : captain cosgrove was a flyer in wwi and his son is one in world war two .
the plot of this shot film is taken right from the name , it is moretti doing a video diary of all his favorite times of going to the movies . as moretti is a well - know italian director and actor , his film the son’s room in which he had also acted and direct has been nominated for and won many awards , the idea of this film is the in order to be a great film maker you have to have a great love of all kinds of cinema experiences . the whole point really is for moretti to express his cinephilia as it has shaped his life and defined who he had become ; in addition to also shaping how he interacted with his family , and how he remembered various moments with them .
* note from the editor : edited by film historian anthony slide , it ' s the pictures that got small : charles brackett on billy wilder and hollywood ' s golden age consists of charles brackett ' s diary entries from the early ' 30s to 1949 . as found in the book , brackett had to fight with the production code ' s breen office , named after top censor joseph breen , to keep to each his own intact .
a young man plots revenge against the woman he believes murdered his cousin , but his plans are shaken when he comes face to face with the enigmatic beauty .
the vindication took its own time in appearing but khanna conclusively proved that the audience still adored him .
khanna had 11 films released in 1984 ; but with age catching up , his career was obviously drawing to a close . whether it was his separation from wife dimple or his adventure in politics , khanna remained in the limelight .
special affects is a project of the film studies graduate student organization ( fsgso ) .
in the introduction , zandi describes asking - almost negotiating - with a man at the door to let her into the school where only men were allowed that day . aptly , the book begins with her plea : “to each his ( or her ) own weapon , i have my camera , and i have my cry . ”
a single mother gives up her son , then fights to remain a part of his life .
zandi chooses various backgrounds . the writers she captures within their own space of preference - old libraries , studies or gardens . the painters pose in their workshops , among easels and brushes and paints , or next to one of their own works .
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deep into her flashback taking place in her american hometown more than 20 years earlier , jody ( olivia de havilland ) barely meets handsome flier cosgrove ( john lund ) , with her father ( griff barnett ) and war bond enthusiast clinton ( arthur loft ) , in mitchell leisen ' s to each his own , 1946 . >
the pasha of passion had only to park his car for a short while to find it smothered with lipsticked kisses on his return . sackfuls of love letters written in blood made their way to dimple , his bungalow at carter road , bandra ( a mumbai suburb ) . veteran actress nadira , who costarred with him in
in one of many money - scenes , in flashback for middle - aged jody ( olivia de havilland ) , she ' s an un - married mom back in the states in 1918 , persuaded by her druggist father ( griff barnett ) she must not keep her child , then back to contemporary london , in mitchell leisen ' s to each his own , 1946 .
, in the dual role of de havilland ' s lover and her son . as the son , he had a brown rinse on his naturally blond hair , and his manner for each character is totally different . lund was a good actor , but was not used to film technique , and had difficulties hitting his marks . the supporting cast , though not well - known , was uniformly excellent , and even inspired . editor alma macrorie , who was not an actress , was a standout as the continually pregnant belle ingham . she also cut the film , and kept trying to cut her part down .
this short film is about a forced redemption in regards to the boy and human connection in regards to the girl . while it appears that both character give each other what they are in “need” of , it is mostly just the girl who gets what she is searching for , as the boy never expresses or shows want of his forced redemption . the boy , while looking for money to steal from distracted theater goers , ends up getting “redeemed” by the girl who takes his hand and holds it through a sad part of a film , therein acquiring the human connection she was looking to find through the film itself . what this means in regards to the structure of film is that the characters are all contrived to serve the main character’s will and desire , and they do not get to develop outside of that relationship on their own term . it is a commentary about the juxtaposition between how relationships in films are presented as real but they do not reflected the actual relations structure experienced in daily life .
in one of many money - scenes , in flashback for middle - aged jody ( olivia de havilland ) , she ' s an un - married mom back in the states in 1918 , persuaded by her druggist father ( griff barnett ) she must not keep her child , then back to contemporary london , in mitchell leisen ' s to each his own , 1946 . >
a free - spirited type who cheerfully rattles away in osaka dialect , yamamoto wants to be aoyama’s helper and pal , not — as the latter briefly fears — his gay lover . he also gives aoyama useful fashion and sales advice , based on his own now - past salaryman days . the gray cloud over our hero begins to dissipate .
when the lights came up yesterday after the first showing in the music hall of
to each his own
there was hardly a dry feminine handkerchief in the house . the ladies had a good two - hour cry and they were delighted . and unless our prognostication goes unaccountably haywire the scene will be repeated over and over for many weeks to come . view full article in timesmachine »
to each his own tells us the story of jody norris , a small town girl , who has a child out of wedlock with a war pilot and ends up giving him to a foster family , after a series of unfortunate circumstances . although today we don ' t see this as scandalous as before , motherly love , on the other hand , will never be lost through time .
in to each his own , de havilland plays jody norris , a small - town woman who falls quickly in love – much like her character in hold back the dawn – but this time during world war i , when jody ' s brief liaison with daredevil flying ace captain cosgrove ( john lund ) results in an out - of - wedlock child .
this short film is about a tiny lady who is dressed like a bug getting chased around a theater by the janitor which is trying to squish her . while this is occurring there is a film playing in the background where in the female characters are mocking the male for not having enough “balls” to be able to live up to female needs .
, what was once arguably the finest film appreciation periodical in britain . i believe that lane also wrote for
jobless vin ( steve mcqueen ) blows his stake at the saloon , . . .
an iranian revolutionary with a flower in his rifle . photograph : courtesy of maryam zandi
as the mysterious yamamoto , fukushi plays down his ikemen ( handsome guy ) looks while playing up his character’s effervescent charm — and essential seriousness . this sort of complexity is absent in kudo’s straight - arrow aoyama , though his sincerity and passivity are also often found in his real - life counterparts . otherwise , black companies would find it harder to recruit and retain wage slaves .
this short film is about the power of cinema to bring a community together . it also showcases the excitement and magic around cinema that children experience when waiting for movies to begin . there is this excited build up and then silence when the movies starts , and that is part of what makes movies so great ; the experience of anticipation and the delayed gratification . while waiting the community all sits together laughing as the children make shadow puppets at the screen , and a boy throws a chicken into the air . this short film also seems to be saying that the anticipation and the togetherness experienced before the film starts is more important , as the main little boy falls asleep when the film actually starts because it is not as exciting or engaging to him as the participation parts that exist around the idea of film . likewise this short film also shows how film can bring people together as it’s other main character seems to be a girl that has a crush on the boy managing the projector , and through the magic of film’s presence in the community , she has a reason to hang out with said boy .
crew : reviewed at cannes film festival ( noncompeting ) , may 20 , 2007 . running time : 119 min .
, where he essayed the role of a twice - married man haunted by his past ) .
is lane’s memoir of his first 15 years as an english expatriate in rome , where he was uniquely poised to chronicle the ups and downs of a particularly turbulent period in the eternal city’s history . lane was born in orpington , a suburb of london , but never quite felt comfortable there . quickly realizing that his ambitions in the arts were not compatible with the regimented austerity of postwar britain , he left for paris , where he studied french and film . by 1950 , however , he had traveled to rome , which was to be his material and spiritual home base over the next two decades . by the time of his move , lane had already contributed to
based on a prize - winning novel by emi kitagawa , izuru narushima’s “to each his own” ( “chotto ima kara shigoto yamete kuru” ) is a serious treatment of this theme that flirts with fantasy in its first half but shades to heart - warming melodrama in its second . save for the scenes of the beleaguered salesman hero ( asuka kudo ) being chewed out by his short - fused boss ( kotaro yoshida ) , the story teeters on the edge of impossibility before finally descending into just - so fiction whose solution for karōshi ( death by overwork ) is the real - life equivalent of winning the lottery — that is , hardly attainable for the majority who have to earn a living in this country rather than the film’s idea of paradise .
to each his own - i really enjoyed seeing this movie after not seeing it for many years ! it was nice to see miss de havilland in one of her early screen appearances . the digitally remastered copy was very good i had never seen or heard it that good , although some scenes were dark i imagine that was in the original print ! i would highly recommend it , granted that it can be slow in parts but it has a great love story from yesteryear !
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as such this short film of champion’s is a commentary about the lack of female directors in mainstream film making . it is also a chicken - in - the - egg question as in , if someone needs a love of cinema to make good cinema and champion seems to be arguing that male produced films do not cater correctly to female desires for film viewing , how are females to suppose to be able to start making good cinema ? it brings up the spirit of laura mulvey’s famous bit “visual pleasure and narrative cinema” which basically says that since films are all made by males , they appear to males , as they are directed with a male eye / gaze and thus females are not characters but objects for the males to look at and interact with in the duration of the film . being that females are meant to be objects within the films , they cannot possibly be included in the direction of the film as then they would resist the preselected male concept of the gaze and other .
on the downside , john lund is both flat and unappealing in the dual role of captain cosgrove and his grown son . true to the form of “women ' s pictures , ” the film ' s leading male is bland , especially against an outstanding female star .
the specter of the death of cinema and the communal movie experience hangs like an ironic shroud over “to each his own cinema , ” a mostly engaging compilation of 33 three - minute films made by leading international auteurs on the occasion of the cannes film festival ’s 60th birthday . venture was conceived and produced by fest prexy gilles jacob as a way to celebrate the cinema rather than cannes per se , and the directors were asked only to express “their state of mind of the moment as inspired by the motion picture theater . ” collection was televised throughout france on canal plus simultaneously with its cannes preem and will be released on dvd in gaul on may 25 .
a little too soapy for my taste but olivia de havilland elevates this film several notches and is amply rewarded with an oscar .
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deathwatch ( bertrand tavernier , 1980 ) . a movie twenty years ahead of its time , about the ultimate
reality
tv show . romy schneider is dying . she accepts a big check from tv producer harry dean stanton to film her final days , then runs off . so harry sends harvey keitel to film her surreptitiously . a great film that hasn ' t been available on video in ages , but is on the coming attractions slate at anchor bay . - - lisa larkin
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winter light ( ingmar bergman , 1963 ) . the middle entry in bergman ' s
faith
trilogy is usually overlooked in favor of through a glass darkly ' s spider - god , and the silence ' s lesbianism , while ironically being the most obviously related to the subject of faith . the story concerns a disillusioned priest ( gunnar björnstrand ) and his inability to cope with the needs of either his parishioners or his personal intimates . the film plays out in near real - time , and the painfully honest character interaction is some of the most quietly brutal and intense of any bergman film . . . . and that ' s saying something . - - michael buck
for to each his own , screenwriter ( and producer ) charles brackett – working with jacques théry , instead of frequent partner billy wilder – updated the unwed - mother films of the early 1930s . the melodramatic progression of the story unmistakably recalls pre - production code potboilers such as the secret of madame blanche ( charles brabin , 1933 ) , starring irene dunne , and the sin of madelon claudet ( edgar selwyn , 1931 ) , which earned helen hayes a best actress academy award .
film artists she asks to her studio , and photographs them all with similar lighting and angles . but they bring their individuality . the actor ali nassirian gives us his naive but sparkling grin , while director dariush mehrjui , once the quirky intellectual of iranian cinema , looks through a peephole made with hands .
this flow of time , when the family goes through the curtain and the short film jumps to the present where the theater is abandoned and in disrepair but the film reels still play like they did before , is symbolic of the power this nostalgia still has . it indicates that there is still magic left in the old , individual theaters .
lund , who had already established himself on broadway , made his film debut here . an interesting sidelight is that de havilland hadn ' t worked for two years . she ' d been on suspension from warner bros . and was trying to break a contract which they claimed included all of her suspension time . she
to each his own ( 1946 ) . dir . : mitchell leisen . scr . : charles brackett and jacques théry . from a story by charles brackett . * * cast : olivia de havilland . † john lund . mary anderson . roland culver . phillip terry . bill goodwin . virginia welles . victoria horne . frank faylen . willard robertson . doris lloyd . ida moore . and in uncredited roles : anthony caruso . gino corrado . franklyn farnum . julia faye . louis jean heydt . mary maclaren . gigi perreau .
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during a night watch in london , middle - aged american jody norris ( olivia de havilland ) meets the brisk but kind lord desham ( roland culver ) . later , jody recalls her youth when she fell in love with a pilot and bore his illegitimate child after his death in the war . jody tried to arrange to adopt her own child , but the boy ended up with her best friend , and jody ' s efforts to regain custody were fruitless . years later , when jody ' s son arrives in london as an american pilot , desham provides help .
convenient miscarriage : subverted . it first looks as if the film is going to play it straight ( jody has a disease that will make carrying a child dangerous ) , but she later decides to have the baby and it ' s considered a miracle .
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, and it would be nice to be directed to some of those articles . kevin m . flanagan
list of directors , 35 in all , including two sets of brothers , consists of names very familiar on the croisette , many palme d’or winners among them . with a couple of exceptions , the identities of the filmmakers are withheld until the end of each short , meaning that guessing who’s behind the camera becomes part of the fun ( the presence of some directors in their own films provides tip - offs from time to time ) .
one of olivia de havilland ' s best film , for which she deservedly won her first oscar , and one of hollywood ' s most emotionally effective melodramas .
an adventuresome young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiancée in the process . but when he returns 10 years later , she will stop at nothing to get him back , even though she is already married .
] got out of his car , there was a deafening roar as they called out ' rajesh khanna ' in unison . '
a true melodrama that just makes you cry and hug your mother . olivia dehavilland bless her is very good in this . sometimes the film gets a little long for its own good , and also starts off very slowly that it took until the flashback to hook me but otherwise i liked it . this woman was so dedicated to love her son how wonderful ! and in the end during those final moments you see just how far she ' s gone . this may not be a memorable film as many people on here have never seen it , but it ' s a good break from everything for a few hours .
this short film is about the power of a film’s plot , not as shown via the visuals , but by how important the script is . anna , while it is never directly said , is blind . the male character has to tell her pieces of the visuals happening on screen , which in turn also tells the audience watching anna what is playing in their cinema . likewise the male also has to tell anna at the end that the film was in color and not in black and white like she had been picturing in her head the whole time . additionally when anna gets up there is the distinct thumping - click of a hoover cane . being that anna cannot see the film , only hear it , that is the experience the viewer is given by never having the camera actually face the movie screen . we must instead be content with listening to a film that is not visible while watching anna sit in the darkness and have someone explain what is occurring .
the film’s central mystery is not how aoyama hangs onto his job ( one likely reason : the boss enjoys torturing him ) but yamamoto’s true identity . aoyama , who is not stupid , soon uncovers the falsity of the “classmate” claim , but yamamoto’s uncanny knack for turning up at the right moment , time after time , makes aoyama suspect that he is a ghost — or an angel . igarashi , we soon see , is hiding secrets as well , though aoyama innocently and somewhat incredibly views her as his only office ally . ( his other co - workers are glued silently to their desks . )
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however , in the mid - seventies , his career hit a deep trough . khanna favourites like hrishikesh mukherjee , yash chopra and shakti samanta shifted sights to the angry young man amitabh with
also rating high marks are contributions from atom egoyan , in which two people in separate cinemas phone each other images of the films they’re watching ; the coen brothers’ amusing snippet about a cowboy ( josh brolin , seemingly having walked straight out of the coens’ “no country for old men” ) trying to decide which film to see at santa monica’s aero rep house ( “rules of the game” or “climates” ) and zhang yimou’s energetic , superbly composed look at rural chinese kids gathering for a movie show .
takashi aoyama ( asuka kudo ) has way to much work to do and pushes himself mentally too hard . he blacks out and collapses at a railroad station . when he is about to be hit by a train , he is saved by yamamoto ( sota fukushi ) who speaks with an osaka dialect . after his encounter with yamamoto , takashi recovers his bright personality and gets better results at work . one day , takashi sees yamamoto boarding a bus to the cemetery with a serious expression .
amidst lane’s adventures in film and the arts are frequent struggles with poverty—the life of a freelancer has never been secure , though lane seems to have kept in work most of the time—and very frank discussions of his sexual liaisons . lane , who realized he was gay at an early age , pursued many men over his years in rome . while he did find a long - term partner by the 1970s ( and thus avoided the worst of the worldwide panic over the emergence of aids in the early 1980s ) ,
newly returned from national service to join his politically committed but emotionally chaotic mother myra at home , tony – whose childhood home was blown up , along with his dad , during the war – longs for a world that is as safe as houses and where his mother always wears lipstick and behaves with dignity . but myra , played with a compelling mix of magnificent swagger and emotional fragility by clare holman , is determined to keep fighting for the causes she believes in , even if events in hungary and the ussr have taken their toll .
occupying a provocative , confrontational zone all its own is david cronenberg’s intense piece , in which the director himself appears as “the last jew in the world in the last cinema in the world” preparing to commit suicide on television while commentators blather on dispassionately about jews and cinema .
as soon as i read the description , i knew for sure where the story would lead to . in fact , everything would be predictable if you have watched enough movies . that said , this film is a gem . for the first i cried when watching a movie , not because someone died , but because someone realized a reason to live . the scene when aoyama returned home and talked with his parents is really touching . as another comment has said , it would be more easily for you to feel this film if you have ever been in the same situation as the main character . and i believe people like him are not a minority in this modern society .
note the fineness of this film . allow me the honor of starring in it for you . by all means , let me take you on a tour of this interesting woman .
. for a short but memorable epoch , it seemed the whole nation was taken up with his charismatic smile and those winking - eyed mannerisms .
in other words : feel free to add something reasonable & coherent – and fact - based – to the discussion .
honestly , i turn to tcm to forget about politics . its a refuge for many of us . considering that films today have little sentimentality that to many younger . . .
. since the film was shot in sequence , the weight loss worked to its advantage . in the early scenes , playing a young girl , she is thin and ethereal . leisen insisted that de havilland eat hearty meals during production , and over the course of the film , she gained about 20 pounds , which took her effectively through pregnancy and aging . the aging process was also helped along with makeup and harsh lighting .
the film won sharmila tagore her first and only filmfare best actress award . in 1947 , olivia de havilland had won her first academy award for best actress for playing the same role in
, vividly recalls the premiere of the film held at mumbai ' s plush apsara cinema : ' a sea of humanity lined up on either side of the road . and when kaka [
mothlight ( stan brakhage , 1963 ) . brakhage is one of the great figures of the american avant - garde , and this 5 - minute work is a rare thing indeed - a film made without a camera . this is as basic as it gets : two mylar strips and a hell of a lot of moths . mesmerizing and singular , it is quite something to watch it projected and then get a chance to examine the actual film on the reel - truly this is something that ' s impossible to do with video . - - mark netter
, sang rajesh khanna to sharmila tagore , even as his friend , sujit kumar , doubled up as a driver and a mouth organ player - - keeping pace with the toy train , on one hand while adding music to khanna ' s love song on the other .
meeting an ace pilot , captain cosgrove , during wwi ( john lund ) and falling in love , jody ( dehavilland ) gets pregnant and hides this disgrace to protect her reputation and her sons . with the help of her father , she contrives a plan to make her son a foundling in the eyes of her small town . however , her plan fails and a former beau , alex ( roland culver ) and his wife , corinne ( mary anderson ) , take jodys son as their own .
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when captain cosgrove shuts off the power to his biplane it continues to glide on a level path . biplanes have very high drag because they have two wings and all the supports in between . the plane would have started to fall toward the ground , not continue on . the clouds in the background show a level path of travel .
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when captain cosgrove shuts off the power to his biplane it continues to glide on a level path . biplanes have very high drag because they have two wings and all the supports in between . the plane would have started to fall toward the ground , not continue on . the clouds in the background show a level path of travel . see more »
from the 1990s onwards , maryam zandi was known as a portrait photographer . she has published four collections of figures in literature , painting and film , and is now planning a fifth , on musicians .
igarashi ( haru kuroki ) , a cool beauty who is the company’s sales star , compliments aoyama on his brighter look and attitude , but romance is the furthest thing from his mind , especially after a seemingly careless error nearly loses the company an important client . the boss goes ballistic — and aoyama again descends into corporate hell .
zandi is the sister of acclaimed iranian writer , director and translator nader ebrahimi , known especially for his lyrical love stories set in the mountainous forests of northern iran .
( 1963 ) , in which lane was initially cast to play bacchus . however , upon learning that lane was a journalist , and could thus potentially file clandestine copy , richard burton , then famously embarking on an affair with elizabeth taylor , had him fired off the film . although lane got his promised pay , burton’s paranoia kept him from appearing in what is now regarded as one of the most serious and indulgent flops in movie history .
fortunately , aoyama finds a savvy , tireless savior in yamamoto . my own role model in this regard is late country music star johnny paycheck , whose biggest hit was “take this job and shove it . ” has there ever been a japanese cover version ?
my mother was very happy with this dvd . she had been wanting to see this for a long time . she was initially a bit worried about the title being in czech but she was glad that she could turn off the sub titles and that the film was in english .
got to love tcm for allowing us the chance to see films directed by mitchell leisen , of which this is one . i found his films to be pretty sexy in a sophisticated and implied kind of way , which enhanced their overall effectiveness as compelling dramas . he did so with olivia dehavilland who has a son out of wedlock after falling for a barnstorming wwi ace pilot when she was the knockout daughter of a pharmacy owner in a small town in new york state in this film . leisen ' s films also featured successful female leads , here with dehavilland who makes her way up to the heights of the cosmetics industry during world war ii . thus she was both sexually liberated as…
flashback : jody remembers her story while waiting for greg to arrive in london . she begins telling some of it to lord dashem as well .
unfortunately , khanna ' s ego kept pace with his widening girth . when the flops started making their appearance , filmmakers began to shy away . in 1972 , rajesh had a string of seven disappointments , but he surmounted them with crowd - pleasers like
the photographs run from the citywide demonstrations of november 1978 to 1 april 1979 , the day of the national referendum with the simple question : ‘the islamic republic , yes or no ? ’ . they capture such momentous events as the mass march to mohammad mossadegh’s home in ahmadabad , and ayatollah ruhollah khomeini’s first media interview upon his return to iran , at alavi school . it was published in october 2014 .
from a feminist perspective of course this is problematic as it seems to suggest a woman ' s life somehow isn ' t complete without children . as supreme soap opera it is sublime . leisen was wonderful with actresses and olivia certainly earned her oscar here . the fact this got past the censors at all can probably be put down to patriotic fervor in the wake of world war 2 . the director ' s understated style and deft way of inserting lighthearted moments keeps the film from dragging or becoming maudlin . a quintessential ' women ' s picture , ' recommended to fans of old hollywood , the director or his star ( with caveats )
but zandi’s portraits go beyond simply documenting the subject to suggest why they should be remembered . film director nasser taghvaie aptly described this in a ceremony to honour her work hosted by the literary magazine bukhara : “sometimes a photographer can capture what hides beneath your exterior , that’s what maryam’s work did for our poets , sculptors and artists . she reflected who they were on the inside . ”
mix for a film by eva vertongen . els viane created some nice sounds that evoke for me very well the desire for esthetic qualities that both eva and thomas share . in the same time they form spaces where we can process the difficult moral situation that is presented to us . we amed for a very …
an unwed mother , forced to give up her child to avoid scandal , follows her son ' s life from afar even as she prospers in business .
a man walks past a wall with ‘death to the shah’ scrawled over what appears to be similar graffiti previously covered up . photograph : courtesy of maryam zandi
crime and punishment ( pierre chenal , 1935 ) . it is very difficult to film dostoevsky . for one thing , his philosophical and religious concerns don ' t seem to translate well to the screen . this french version of crime and punishment short - changes those aspects , but what it captures like no other adaptation i ' ve seen is the dostoevskyan atmosphere . the production design ( the great eugene lourie ) features city streets and houses that look cramped , spooky , a bit off - kilter . the young actor playing raskolnikov ( pierre blanchar ) looks hungry and haunted ; the black - and white photography is great , the director ( pierre chenal ) sustains a feeling of desperate , rat - like confinement that is very much like the experience of reading that great novel . no , it doesn ' t plumb the depths , but it manages to evoke some of the story ' s existential fright , and i love the film ' s look and mood . - - chris dashiell
during world war i , small - town girl josephine norris has an illegitimate son by an itinerant pilot . after a scheme to adopt him ends up giving him to another family , she devotes her life to loving him from afar .
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happy ending : jody finally gets the recognition she fought to get but failed .
secular women took part then fell victim to the revolution . photograph : maryam zandi
léolo ( jean - claude lauzon , 1992 ) . a dark , shocking , strangely humorous film about a young boy ' s escape from reality . 12 - year - old leo ( maxime collin ) lives in a run - down montreal tenement with his abusive family in the 1950s . in his imagination he is an expatriate sicilian named leolo . stunning bursts of poetry are juxtaposed with scenes that are brutal , vulgar , or obscene , a black comedy about the tragedy of a sensitive soul in conflict with society - it ' s one of the most unusual films ever made - - vulgar , audacious , yet deeply compassionate . - - howard schumann
this movie , i think , best resonates with those who ' ve experienced something similar to aoyama . if you haven ' t experienced having a job or dealing with senseless people . . . it would be hard to relate to this movie .
is a generally breezy read . lane’s years of writing and acting have made him an adept communicator and a fine storyteller . i would have liked to have read a bit more about lane’s childhood and experience of wartime britain , though given his stated desire to leave that life behind , one cannot blame him for skipping those bits . also , lane’s writing and acting after 1965 are mentioned where appropriate in the text , but a more formal list of appearances and significant pieces as an appendix would be nice ( after all , given lane’s style , readers will likely want to make a trip to the library and track down some of his pieces ) . thankfully , bear claw books are likely releasing an anthology of writings ( including some from lane ) from
since it is set at a time when there was a mass defection from party politics and increasing cynicism about politicians , it’s easy to see why director paul miller thought this is a play that might have traction as our own general election approaches . but it’s painfully stilted and lacks dramatic impetus until the second half ; some characters are fatally underwritten and it’s wordy – everyone says everything at least twice .
it is certainly magnanimous of one superstar to speak in such glowing terms of another who was once his chief adversary at the box - office . while there is no denying the apparent modesty peeking through bachchan ' s praise , he is not far from the mark in encapsulating the khanna phenomenon .
but the beginnings of the pimple faced , medium - height - and - build man were a far cry from his superstar days . rajesh , who real name is jatin , came from a well - to - do family and was intense about acting , whether on stage or in films .
during world war i , small - town girl josephine norris has an illegitimate son by an itinerant pilot . after a scheme to adopt him ends up giving him to another family , she devotes her life to loving him from afar . written by mark foltz
is as much about his relationships in the context of a largely traditional and heterosexist culture that made being fully out difficult . lane offers several points of comparison between himself and pasolini , whose taste for crime and the
zandi was dismissed from tv in 1983 – she did not want to publicly elaborate on the reasons for this - and her photos from 1978 - 9 would not be revealed until 2008 when she first tried to publish them . “shortly after taking them i put them away , ” she said . “i wanted them to be looked at after the historical occurrences had come and gone , so they could be seen with distance , and outside a news cycle . ” perhaps one downside of this , she admits , is a lack of sufficient information for each photo , as she did not take full notes at the time .
contrasts with lane’s interest in soldiers and police officers . the most fascinating parts of this book concern lane’s experiences working in the film industry . he was more than a journalist and actor of bit parts . he occasionally moonlighted in publicity ( he was responsible for selling the english press on