A silent Belgian companion-piece to Ivens’s Dutch New Earth (1933), Borinage, co-directed by Ivens and Henri Störck, also shows capitalism run amok during the 1930s worldwide depression. “Factories are closed, abandoned, and millions of the proletariat go hungry.” Food—coffee, wheat and milk—is destroyed—drowned, burned or spilled—so that lower market prices won’t endanger the profits of […]
Daily Archives: March 23, 2009
“Charlie Castle is a man who sold out his dreams but can’t forget them.” The original star of Clifford Odets’s 1949 play The Big Knife was John Garfield; by the time that Robert Aldrich made his leaner, more muscular film of it Garfield was dead, having been hounded into his fatal 1952 heart attack, at […]
Dennis Grunes 