1. Frank Borzage | Films & Biography - Britannica
American motion-picture director and producer noted for his romantic transcendentalism and technically impeccable filmmaking.
Frank Borzage (1894–1962) was an American motion-picture director and producer noted for his romantic transcendentalism and technically impeccable filmmaking. His career spanned the silent and sound eras.
2. Frank Borzage - Film Comment
For Borzage, love means certainty (which may account for another aspect of his current neglect: his films never partake of the crisis of belief at the core of ...
The sanctum sanctorum of love
3. „Souls made great by love and adversity“ – Frank Borzage ...
Frank Borzage (1894–1962) was described as a “poet of the working class” and an “uncompromising romanticist”. His films focus on romantic love in all its ...
THE MORTAL STORM (USA 1940, 1.9., with an introductory lecture by Lukas Foerster & 26.9.) Munich, January 1933: A harmonious family meal to celebrate
4. Frank Borzage - Bronze Screen Dream
Frank Borzage, an American director and actor, is acclaimed for his romantic and deeply emotive storytelling that left a lasting impression in Hollywood.
Frank Borzage: Classic Hollywood director of romantic films, sentimental and lyrical storytelling, emotional depth, collaborating with Janet Gaynor, visual and emotional beauty.
5. Frank Borzage - Locarno Film Festival
Frank Borzage (1894 – 1962) was an American film director and actor. Regarded in the 1920s and 1930s as one of Hollywood's best filmmakers, ...
Frank Borzage (1894 – 1962) was an American film director and actor. Regarded in the 1920s and 1930s as one of Hollywood’s best filmmakers, winning the first ever Academy Award for Best Director for 7th Heaven (1927), he was later dismissed as a director of stuffy melodramas – before being rediscovered around the turn of the millennium, championed, among others, by Martin Scorsese. His most enduring works include Street Angel (1928), A Farewell to Arms (1932), Man’s Castle (1933), and The Mortal Storm (1940).
6. Frank Borzage - cineCollage
Yet, by the end of his career, Borzage's work was relegated to historical status, and is today widely regarded as hopelessly dated and sentimental. What is the ...
Borzage is celebrated as screen's supreme poet of love. In his films, the lovers are tested by war, Depression, Nazism and death.
7. TSPDT - Frank Borzage
"To this day, he remains under appreciated, even obscure, perhaps because his melodramatic sensibilities have fallen out of fashion.
They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? is dedicated to the art of motion picture film-making and most specifically to that one particular individual calling the shots from behind the camera - the film director.
8. Frank Borzage - Michael J. Cinema
27 apr 2021 · Born April 23, 1894, in Salt Lake City, Utah, Frank Borzage wanted to be in entertainment since he was a kid. That takes money, so Borzage worked odd jobs.
Born April 23, 1894, in Salt Lake City, Utah, Frank Borzage wanted to be in entertainment since he was a kid. That takes money, so Borzage worked odd jobs in mines and on cooking lines to pay his w…
9. FRANK BORZAGE (1893-1962) - Pangborn on Film
Borzage was a prolific director from 1921-23 but slowed down to make just one film in 1924, Secrets, an epic reminiscence of love and regret told through from ...
Seen today, even the most austere films by Hollywood’s first Romantic Frank Borzage might cause the uninitiated to chortle at the hopelessly out of date plots and squirm uncomfortably at the naked emotion on the screen. Granted, we’ve come a long way in the last eighty years but try to imagine how the current, sorry state of modern love in the popular arts will look to future generations. Teen vampire fantasies, Reality TV dating, the crass caterwauling of dim-witted Divas, and the saccharine genre of “chick flicks” all reek of phony, forced feelings.
