Word: films
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Polled by Film Daily, 451 U. S. film critics chose what they considered the ten best pictures of 1935: i) David Copperfield 2) Lives of a Bengal Lancer
...Ghost Goes West (London Films). Rene Clair's first film in English, made at Alexander Korda's London studio from a screen play by Robert Sherwood, is a satiric fantasy notable for the qualities of grace, charm and imaginative wit that have long distinguished its director's work in French. Produced by a Hungarian, written by an American, directed by a Frenchman, and acted by an English-speaking cast, it has the homogeneity of style, the smooth polish often conspicuously lacking in its Hollywood counterparts. Its most serious fault is an occasional lethargy of pace, which...
...Clair (Sous les Toits de Paris, Le Million, A Nous la Libertè) and the French film industry have been almost synonymous in most people's minds since 1930, when his first important film was an international sensation. In addition to being the only important director in France, he also wrote his own stories, chose his cast and took complete control of his productions. Long determined not to go to Hollywood, where, far from being No. 1 man in the industry, he doubted whether he would even be allowed to run his own Unit, Director Clair last autumn broke...
...soft. If she is playing a distraught mother grieving when her child is killed, the Chinese director is apt to decide that a real mother in such circumstances would weep for 23 minutes. Hence Miss Wu must and does weep for 23 minutes in the Chinese film, which is probably at least 20 reels long...
Glads Swarthout's film, "Rose of the Rancho", now playing at the Met, provides restful relaxation during this bookish time. Its locale is old California, just after the United States annexed it, and the story is a highly romanticized version of the conflict between the old Spanish inhabitants and the land-greedy newcomers. In good musical comedy vein, if not with great historical accuracy, Miss Swarthout takes the part of the highly decorative leader of the Spanish "vigilantes" and John Boles the part of a "federal agent" who is out to see that justice is done...