Film Festival: Silent Greats The Big Parade (1925) is a silent classic, crafted by director King Vidor to be a memorable look at the American boys who fought in France during the Great War. War stories are an important part of our storytelling tradition. We attach romance to the idea of boys going off to…
King Vidor
Stella Dallas ever-giving mom: Lisa’s Home Bijou
Film Festival: Three Hankies In the 1937 version of Stella Dallas, Barbara Stanwyck turns in an Academy award-nominated performance as a devoted mother. Get out those handkerchiefs! The tearjerker has long been a staple of storytelling in the 20th century, with novelists such as Olive Higgins Prouty, Lloyd C. Douglas and Fannie Hurst combining elements…
The Fountainhead passion & drama: Lisa’s Home Bijou
Film Festival: Three Hankies Ayn Rand’s novel, The Fountainhead, is loosely based upon the career of Frank Lloyd Wright, though Rand, who also wrote the screenplay, continually denied it. This is a morality play about the strength of personal conviction. Gary Cooper brings Howard Roark alive in The Fountainhead (1949), which also stars Patricia Neal…