Over the next several weeks a retrospective of the work of the great American director George Stevens is taking place at Film Forum here in New York City. This past Sunday I was able to attend the opening day’s film which was a superb documentary about Stevens made by his
Let’s closed ‘fight week’ with another George Stevens directed fight sequence. Earlier this week we watched his superb fight scene from ‘Shane’ (which took place in a bar). The day before we caught the fight from John Sturges ‘Bad Day at Black Rock’ (which took place in a diner that
Below is part 4 of 4 of an essay I wrote on director George Stevens in 2011. Click here for part one, here for part two and here for part three. Last week was Stevens 119th birthday. I had a plan: to work our way through “Shane”, my favorite Stevens