King Vidor’s Wild Oranges (1924) brings us into the High Silent Age, complete with tinted reels; lush location photography; perfected romantic pantomime; soft focus galore; drooling, lurking evil + its correlative: skulking, cringing fear; the Goldwyn Pictures Lion (see below) and June Mathis “Editorial Direction”. Last time on Vidor Theatre, Peg O’ My Heart gave us [...]
Posts Tagged ‘cross-cutting’
Ascorbic Victory
Posted in Film, Series: King Vidor, tagged astral projection therapy, cinematic zest, Civil War, cross-cutting, Dog, female protagonist, Gobstopper, Goldwyn Pictures, High Silent Age, intersubjectivity, Ishmael, June Mathis, King Vidor, Melville, Moby-Dick, oneiric logic, Rin Tin Tin, solitude and freedom, subjective crossfire, Virginia Valli on August 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Red-White-and-Blueshirt; or, The Man Who Enlisted Liberty Valance
Posted in Series: King Vidor, tagged Apartheid, Bud's Recruit, cardigans, cross-cutting, Emersonian Self, enlistment, Flags, fops, pacifism, Percy Bysshe Shelley on July 11, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Made in 1917–the year the U.S. plunged into “The Great War”–Bud’s Recruit gives us the King at his callowest. Financed and written by “Boy City” impresario Judge Willis Brown (sort of the poor man’s Father Flanagan), and certainly circumscribed by that stodgy gavel-wielder’s point of view, this flag-waving short nevertheless manages to ring up the [...]
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