KING VIDOR, Hollywood maximalist and master of the small moment.

Stella Dallas (1937) - only one i've seen, good tearjerker

i didn't realise it was Zeffirelli until i checked the year today, yes that explains everything

I like this bit from Scott Eyman's Speed of Sound:

Vidor was a fascinating combination of ascetic and pagan, passion and pragmatism, given to much contemplation of life's deeper meanings, but always pausing for invariably successful pursuits of the pleasure principle. He was, all his long life, a lethal lady's man, with the inevitable result that he was far more successful as a lover than as a husband. Along these lines, although he was fascinated by the spiritual, he was not above cheating on his income tax, which would lead to his being successfully prosecuted for fraud a few years later. (One deduction in particular caught the eye of the IRS; it seemed that Vidor had bet Sam Goldwyn $1,200 that his wife would bear him a son. Vidor lost the bet and tried to deduct the $1,200 as a business expense.)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

RIP MORBS

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Who voted for The Wife of the Centaur and how did you see it?

https://www.filmlinc.org/daily/announcing-king-vidor-a-career-spanning-retrospective-on-the-hollywood-icon-august-5-14/

I'm glad that this retrospective is finally happening, and I'm hoping that some or all of it comes to The National Gallery and/or AFI Silver. But so many titles (in my opinion) are missing.