There are a handful of “Sturges moments” in The Great Moment. I suppose I’d define those moments as the ones where the predictable or familiar filmic device transcends artifice (even if it’s as artificial as the text a character is reading appearing on the screen for the viewer to read as well) and becomes… ideal. […]
Entries Tagged as 'Joel McCrea'
The Great Moment (1944, Preston Sturges)
December 19th, 2007 No Comments
Recommend on MahaloForeign Correspondent (1940, Alfred Hitchcock)
October 19th, 2005 No Comments
Well shit, I was wrong. I thought Foreign Correspondent was pre-Rebecca and I am incorrect.
I suppose the confusion has to do with the way Hitchcock made Correspondent. It’s very much in the style of his 1930s British films (I’m thinking primarily of The 39 Steps and The Lady Vanishes), while Rebecca was not. Rebecca was […]
