George Stevens: A Filmmaker’s Journey
March 23, 2015George Stevens: A Filmmaker’s Journey
Call Number: DVD1237
by George Stevens, Jr.; Fred Astaire; Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.; Katharine Hepburn; Joel McCrea; Ginger Rogers; Millie Perkins; Max von Sydow; Warren Beatty; Frank Capra; John Huston;Rouben Mamoulian; Joseph L Mankiewicz; Alan J Pakula; Fred Zinnemann; Pandro S Berman; Hal Roach; Yvonne Howell; Hermes Pan; Irwin Shaw; Jack Sher; Toni Vellani; Carl Davis; Creative Film Center.; Warner Home Video (Firm)
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher:[Washington, D.C.] : Creative Film Center ; Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, ©2004.
Notes: Originally produced as an American documentary in 1984.
Special features: George Stevens [text feature].
Summary: A film biography of a movie director usually includes conventional genre trappings, like clips of great scenes and memories of old colleagues, as indeed this film does. Mainly, this is an engrossing tour through the George Stevens career that provides a greater understanding of his background, talent, creative preoccupations, and especially the experiences in World War II that irrevocably changed his approach to film making. As head of the Special Coverage unit documenting the war on film, Stevens took the only known color footage of the ground war in Europe, including the liberation of Paris and the horrors of Dachau. If his movies hold a mirror up to America, it is because his personal principles paralleled the highest aspirations of this country. In his films, Stevens offered as much insight on American life and character as he could muster
Special features: George Stevens [text feature].
Summary: A film biography of a movie director usually includes conventional genre trappings, like clips of great scenes and memories of old colleagues, as indeed this film does. Mainly, this is an engrossing tour through the George Stevens career that provides a greater understanding of his background, talent, creative preoccupations, and especially the experiences in World War II that irrevocably changed his approach to film making. As head of the Special Coverage unit documenting the war on film, Stevens took the only known color footage of the ground war in Europe, including the liberation of Paris and the horrors of Dachau. If his movies hold a mirror up to America, it is because his personal principles paralleled the highest aspirations of this country. In his films, Stevens offered as much insight on American life and character as he could muster
OCLC #: 57349751
Added: March 23, 2015
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
