King Vidor’s Truth and Illusion (1964–no IMDB entry!!!) treats the viewer to the remarkable spectacle of an artist erecting his own tombstone. That’s the truth. Fortunately, Vidor’s oeuvre will always be around to ensure that the feeble speculation contained within this film never becomes anything more than an illusory epitaph for the great director. Truth [...]
Posts Tagged ‘transcendentalism’
‘K, let’s get Vidorganized
Posted in Film, Series: King Vidor, tagged King Vidor, Melodrama, Ralph Waldo Emerson, transcendentalism on November 9, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Keep those curtains wide open. There’ll be plenty to see (and discuss) around here for the next little while. The topic? The films of King Vidor. Aficionados know all about this guy’s snakes and ladders journey across the first perilous century of film criticism. One of the most revered figures in Hollywood during the 1920s, [...]
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