GR: flickering shades of Pokler

[pynchonoid]

This evening's fare, @Pacific Film Archive (UC
Berkeley):

SAT AUG 5 2006
6:30   Lazybones
Frank Borzage Frank Borzage (U.S., 1925)

Jon Mirsalis on Piano

A bridge between Borzage's early career in Westerns
and his later romances, Lazybones stars Western star
Buck Jones as a country layabout who adopts a baby
girl when the mother (ZaSu Pitts, in a beautiful
performance) is forced by her own puritanical mother
to abandon the child. The romantic longing here is
that of Jones for the child, as she grows into a
woman. Borzage conveys Lazybones's growing desire with
an explicitness no less powerful for its gentleness,
making us uncomfortably complicit. . . . In this
gentle masterpiece, Borzage tells a tale of
universally unfulfilled desire. . . . Like Sherwood
Anderson, Borzage manages a vision of small-town
American life based on the repression of desire, yet
still manages to be sympathetic towards his
characters.

Tom Gunning

" Written by Frances Marion, from the play by Owen
Davis. Photographed by Glen MacWilliams, George
Schneiderman. With Charles "Buck" Jones, Madge
Bellamy, Edythe Chapman, ZaSu Pitts. (91 mins, Silent,
B&W, 35mm, From The Museum of Modern Art, New York,
permission 20th Century Fox)




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