@deanduncan63Saw Frank Borzage’s astonishing #StreetAngel. Apropos, you guys need to know about this: http://nyti.ms/1JeF9ke
#StreetAngel. Marked by, not marred by film’s then transition to sound.
#StreetAngel. The camera work in the prologue is as athletical, as electrifying as it’s possible for film to be …
… Miraculously, the prologue has a depth of feeling to match its technical virtuosity.
#StreetAngel. Please note the long, luminous, heartbreaking farewell sequence. Great e.g. of film, even silent, being legitimately operatic.
#StreetAngel. What an interesting variation on the parable of the prodigal, crossed, maybe, w’ Dostoievsky’s Sonia …
Technically fallen, but actually, essentially blameless, & even salvific.
#StreetAngel.. Can be very productively compared w’ Borzage’s sort of similar, similarly stunning #StrangeCargo. Please do so!
#StreetAngel the last. Janet Gaynor!!