Neil Bahadur
30Jun11
Street Scene!
Unquestionably the most neglected major filmmaker. I can't say I'm acquainted with many of his sound-era films, but The Big Parade, Show People, Hallelujah, and ESPICALLY The Crowd are masterpieces of the first class.
I'm writing a series on the complete Vidor oeuvre (the 40 films available to see, anyway) http://anagramsci.wordpress.com/category/king-vidor-series/ comments welcome!
need A LOT more Vidor films on here... starting with RUBY GENTRY, THE WEDDING NIGHT, STREET SCENE and STELLA DALLAS
I second the addition of AN AMERICAN ROMANCE, which might have been Vidor's masterpiece if MGM hadn't lopped off half an hour without his consent. The movie by the way is now available on DVD from the Warners Archive.
We must have ''AN AMERICAN ROMANCE" listed here, one of the most ambitious films of the 40s.