AWARDSLINE: So you actually watched quite a few, you had quite a few inspirations to begin with. What was one of them you patterned this after? HAZANAVICIUS: I watched a few from many countries but I chose the four or five final years of the American...

Movie Mondays at the Paramount continues this week with "Street Angel," the 1928 Frank Borzage drama set in Naples, Italy. Janet Gaynor won the first Academy Award for best actress for her work in this film. Jim Riggs will provide live accompaniment on...

It’s Borzage’s signature stamp that’s imprinted on nearly every frame though — this is no cinematic transposition of Hemingway’s terse, unadorned literary style. Rather, Borzage goes in largely the opposite direction, suffusing the narrative of...

Screening Jan. 18 is 1934's "Now I'll Tell," in which the very Irish Tracy plays a Jewish gangster modeled after the infamous Arnold Rothstein. There are two standouts among the early films that the archive is screening. One is 1933's "Man's Castle,"...

The film is crammed with evident echoes of films such as A Star is Born and Sunset Boulevard, along with stylistic and narrative nods to period masters such as King Vidor and Frank Borzage. But the question of originality should be treated with...

The first version of 'A Farewell to Arms,' produced in 1932 and directed by Frank Borzage, remains the best, due in part to its striking visuals and the heartfelt performances of Helen Hayes and Gary Cooper. (Subsequent adaptations would star William...