Word: cukor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bright new series The Men Who Made the Movies. Produced, written and directed by Author and TIME Movie Critic Richard Schickel, The Men concludes next week with a profile of King Vidor. The other past masters of American cinema profiled on the series: Frank Capra, George Cukor, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Vincente Minnelli, Raoul Walsh, William Wellman...
CURRIER HOUSE DINING HALL, The Philadelphia Story (1940) George Cukor with Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant, James Stuart...
...movie isn't really an ode to romanticism; rather, it is an elegy to its passing. Cukor turns sentiment to laughter, to a capricious form of skepticism that knows "the good old days" to be illusionism. The loops of his freewheeling narrative dip eagerly into the past only to circle back a bit crestfallen. And in between, that cherished romance becomes sappy to the taste...
...Cukor's playful digs at romanticism still haven't inured him to it. Over-fond of the past, he brings confused eyes to the present, and stretches the contrast between to ludicrous dimensions. On the Orient Express Henry smokes dope with a wealthy bluejeaned backpacking American girl. Her father is in the CIA, her boyfriend a pop artist, and she can talk of nothing but the fact that her period is late and whom among her countless bedmates could the culprit be? Then Henry sleeps with her. The girl is just a modern version of Aunt Augusta, but stripped...
...feeling that style, for Cukor, counts for more than it is worth. Moreover, he knows it. So he compromises. He pleads sympathy for bankrupt dreams on the condition that those dreams not be indulged. And he makes a sketch-book movie of daydreams gone aglimmering...