Preston Sturges Trailer
The Bryn Mawr Film Institute hosts an upcoming four-week class on Preston Sturges taught by Drexel University professor Ian Abrams. For more information, go to http://www.brynmawrfilm.org/07...
Trailer created by Nicole Vergalla & Ian Abrams.
In a dizzying four years, Preston Sturges reinvented American film comedy. With seven landmark films, his mix of wordplay and slapstick created a school of movie-making that was wildly funny and distinctively American— a sophisticated take on the screwball cycle: fast and smart and
never too dignified for pratfalls.Sturges was the first prominent writer-director in Hollywood history, paving the way for his Paramount Pictures colleague, Billy Wilder, among others.
In this course, we will discuss the process by which Sturges the writer became Sturges the director, and what his films, which include The Lady Eve and Sullivan's Travels, say about their times and the American character. We will also see how he achieved his comic effects, and how, in an era of strict censorship, Sturges managed to creatively and amusingly evade the retrospective.
Channel: Film & Animation
Uploaded: December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm
Author: ianabrams02
Length: 01:21
Rating: 5.00
Views: 2460
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Video Comments
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ErmineSkinBible (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)
Gotta flippin' love the "Brazil" song.
marsmoke (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)
I think he's saying "its a good business if you know where to get the meat cheap" Thats from the Palm Beach Story. Great movie. Rudy Vallee sings his only recorded version of "Good Night Sweetheart"
jekblom123 (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)
I can see why John Swartzwelder likes these movies so much.
"I'm not in the sausage business!"
"Neither am I, but it's a good business if you wanna know where to get good meat, cheif!"
WOO HOO! Swartzwelder!!
weikko79 (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)
His comedies certainly were the best made in those years, or any other years, for that matter. I wish I could attend that retrospect of his work. |
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