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THE ONLY PICTURE GREAT ENOUGH TO MAKE YOU FORGET "STREET ANGEL"-"SEVETH HEAVEN"
Mary, a poor farm girl, meets Tim just as word comes that war has been declared. Tim enlists in the army and goes to the battlefields of Europe, where he is wounded and loses the use of his legs. Home again, Tim is visited by Mary, and they are powerfully attracted to each other; but his physical handicap prevents him from declaring his love for her. Deeper complications set in when Martin, Tim's former sergeant and a bully, takes a shine to Mary.
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Estrellas dichosas, L’Isolé, La stella della fortuna, Stea norocoasă, 幸运星, 럭키 스타
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18 Aug 1929
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Absolutely beautiful melodrama from Borzage, rooted in Gaynor's adorable and nuanced performance, that almost makes intertitles as superfluous as it does sound.
It's predictable but in a way that makes it archtypical rather than boring and she and Farrell show off the unbelievable connection that led to 12 movies together. The depiction of rural america, closed minded mothers ruling through fear and corporal punishment, people so desperate for money they'd cheat and lie for a nickel, hair and body so dirty you can't even tell what hair colour someone is give a grounded feeling to the beautiful fairy tale and stop it becoming too saccharine or hard to take.
Truly lovely
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the scene where charles farrell tells janet gaynor her hair is disgusting and then proceeds to vigorously wash it with several eggs as shampoo and multiple buckets of water is the chaotic version of the scene in out of africa where robert redford gingerly washes meryl streep’s hair next to a stream.
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80/100
Such a sweet and beautiful little film. It has a really nice fairy-tale vibe and that's why the ending works so well. Also Janet Gaynor is so precious and I love her with Farrell.
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Watched with the Golden Reel Gin Joint
I’ve always had a fondness for Frank Borzage’s films: the sentimental romanticism, the soft evocative lighting, the touches of spirituality, and the redemptive power of love – often depicted by lovers dealing with obstacles and difficulties. This one checks all the boxes, and is the third of his films pairing Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell. A lovely little film.
Set in rural America, it’s the love story of Mary (Gaynor) a poor uneducated girl and Tim (Farrell) a local telephone linesman who returned from WWI as a paraplegic. There’s a villain as well – Wrenn (Guinn Williams), a deceitful womanizer who pursues Mary and hoodwinks her mother into being his ally. It’s a…
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*SPOILERS* An intoxicating romance from the incomparable Frank Borzage, starring the immortal Janet Gaynor and featuring the inconsistent Charlie Farrell, who gives arguably the best performance of his career. The director and his two leads made three films together between 1927 and '29 - silents made when that soon-to-be defunct genre was flourishing, then peaking, then almost dead. The first two, 7th Heaven and Street Angel, helped win Gaynor the inaugural best actress Oscar, but this one - widely regarded as the least of the bunch, is in many ways my favourite; it's certainly the first I wanted to rewatch. Its metaphysical story is the simplest and sweetest, its characterisation sharply realised and unbearably poignant, and its presentation in both…
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Watched with the Golden Reel Gin Joint 🎞️ 🍹
You're not gonna destroy the natural-ness of these kids.
Director Frank Borzage firing his dialogue director (the film had a talking version with a different ending; what that ending was, I don't know).
i. its stars on-screen
A hug worth almost a minute of screentime. Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell have amazing chemistry. Farrell's acting in the film alone sold it to me if I'm being frank. On critical analysis, this is almost everyone being horrible to a person with disability while that person convinces themselves they are not worthy enough of love because they're a "cripple." uGH. Reminds me of an Irene Dunne romance from a decade later (which I…
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LUCKY STAR, Frank Borzage, 1929, por João Bénard da Costa.
Falo de um filme dos anos 20? Falo de um filme dos anos 90?
Lucky Star é dessas duas décadas. Rodado no primeiro semestre de 1929, estreado a 20 de Julho de 1929, muito poucos o viram fora da América (e mesmo na América) no ano que teve uma terça-feira negra. Não por causa dela, mas por causa do som que ainda lhe faltava em tempos em que o bom do público trocava tudo por vozes e música fanhosas. A Fox (nessa altura Fox Films e ainda não 20th Century) tentou emendar a mão e lançou uma versão sonorizada à pressa. Não pegou.
Depois, o filme levou sumiço, como tantos…
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The last half hour of this is more tense than any action movie! I’m so invested in lonely characters who only have each other!! Just really lovely 😊
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If Borzage's other films are as beautiful and sublimely romantic than I can't wait to see them. I had seen Janet Gaynor before in other silents but i truly fell in love with her in this film. She plays a poor country girl who begins a tentative romance with a handicapped war veteran (Charles Farrell). Her mother wants her to marry a hardheaded bully instead. This is truly a silent in which emotions and gestures take precedent over anything else. What a beautiful moment when Farrel sees her in wedding dress. Okay, so the conflict is nothing new but i don't really care because fell in love with the couple and the film itself!
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A tenderness almost too pungent, strikingly beautiful film. A time when cinema understood the weight of gestures and feelings.
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Lucky Star is one of those lovely Pre-Code films that could air a little honesty about the realities of the soldiers who fight in our wars. In this instance, we follow a disabled veteran as he bonds with a precocious young girl and makes a proper lady out of her. It's likely the most upbeat story about a debilitating injury I've ever seen and it shows a certain level of naivety regarding the ability to "will" yourself to no longer be crippled. That said, it's a sweet tale full of optimism and sometimes that's what we need more of. Being a silent film keeps it from ever feeling too schmaltzy, so count our 'lucky stars' that the version which survived…
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