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...The difficulty with emulating Capra in the current context is that the values to aspire to now are less apparent or unifying than they were during the Great Depression....
...But we also looked to Capra and the tradition of populist cinema, which, you know, the first radical move of Capra was to take the story of a regular man and elevate it to something that is worth living...
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...“I enjoy that I don’t know the answer to why these people are all here,” says Michael Chapin, 85, who played one of George’s childhood friends in the film....
...Michael StreetNoto, Sicily, Italy...
...His relationship with Michael Caine even evokes Capra’s bond with Jimmy Stewart, each director using an Everyman as a bridge to the audience. Of course, success has brought over-analysis....
...and the Second World War, by Mark Harris, Canongate, RRP£30/ Penguin Press, RRP$29.95 A startling account of how five exemplary film-makers (John Ford, George Stevens, John Huston, William Wyler, Frank Capra...
...Far from being the naive junior senator in the 1939 Frank Capra classic, the Italian ECB chief is an experienced political operator on a mission to win over deeply sceptical German public opinion....
...Michael Moore’s leftwing celluloid polemics did not stop George W. Bush winning two terms....
...The comparison of young and old, the stretching over 50 years, is one of the most touching things in Michael Haneke’s film Amour....
...The film is very Capra, complete with corn; but caustic when it needs to be....
...On the other hand we have been right for 64 years regarding Frank Capra....
...As Mr Capra said: “If you want to send a message, try Western Union.”...
...But Mr Stone and Michael Douglas, his lead star, both suggested the sequel Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps was also intended as a mea culpa of sorts....
...Mr Gensler invoked Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life as he highlighted: “This financial crisis also gave new meaning to the term ‘run on the bank’.”...
...Whenever it becomes too much – or too little – close your eyes and think of Frank Capra. Last and sparkliest of the week is The Girl Who Leaped Through Time, a gem of Japanimation....
...The other, reflecting the disproportionate number of Hungarians in Hollywood (Frank Capra, George Cukor, the Korda brothers, Michael Curtiz, Zsa Zsa Gabor and Tony Curtis), concerns a sign reported to have...
...New to smoking, Michael Leviseur at The Organic Smokehouse organically farms his salmon on the Hebridean Isle of Lewis....
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