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4 days ago · Preston Sturges: A Statement of Purpose. July 2, 2024 davidmvining. So, I have a slightly better reason to take on the works of Preston Sturges than my usual, “Why not?” malarky. Firstly, my mother recommended him as a topic a year or two ago. I agreed, but I didn’t have room yet to put him on the schedule.
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Preston Sturges’ second film as director is an adaptation of...
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3 days ago · Preston Sturges’ second film as director is an adaptation of his own play, A Cup of Coffee. It’s a quick 67-minute long feature that, much like Sturges’ previous film, The Great McGinty, has certain Capra-esque vibes while also feeling more in line tonally with the script he wrote for William Wyler that became The Good Fairy. It’s a ...
3 days ago · Equal parts Preston Sturges and Flannery O’Connor, ATTICUS FROM SHAWNEETOWN is an offbeat charmer that wears its slightly cracked heart on its sleeve. A quirky blend of hog hysteria, grave-robbing intrigue, and existential courtroom drama, James Varga’s ATTICUS FROM SHAWNEETOWN is a vibrant mosaic of small-town life. ~Edward Sung for ...
3 days ago · TCM says her “ascendency to star status” began with the 1941 films “I Wanted Wings” and Preston Sturges’ “Sullivan’s Travels.” The DVD case for the 1942 film "This Gun for Hire ...
4 days ago · Refocus: the Films of Preston Sturges Jeff Jaeckle (ed.), Sarah Kozloff (ed.) https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474406550.001.0001 Published: 2015 Online ISBN ...
4 days ago · Such questions take us back to the Genesis creation myth, which Cavell argues is worked through repeatedly in the films he studies, two of whose titles are extremely suggestive: The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges, Citation 1941) and Adam’s Rib (George Cukor, Citation 1949). Cavell’s films show us a woman’s creation, requiring that she submit ...
3 days ago · (This, in contrast to what the writer and director Preston Sturges used to refer to as “Topic A.” Although Topic A leads to Scenario A, if you know what we mean and we think that you do.) It’s the most obvious abortion-related situation, the one that comes immediately to mind when we consider what we can call “reproductive rights.”
