Wikio - Frank Capra

"Daughters of Wisdom": All work — and some joyful play — in a utopian monastery (Seattle Times)

Thu, 15 May 2008 23:35:55 GMT

... despite many scenes in the film of spontaneous joy suggesting the happy, Tibetan-like paradise of Frank Capra's "Lost Horizon" was really onto something. Women of all ages live an austere if colorful existence at Kala Rongo, working outdoors, building additions to the monastery, cooking and cleaning.On top of that daily, chop-wood-carry-water ethic, the more ambitious seekers of a...

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Climate Debate: What's Old is New Again (Environmental Capital)

Fri, 09 May 2008 15:05:27 GMT

... by European researchers in the early 20th century. Soon after Dr. Plasss seminal paper, Frank Capra was producing Al Gore-style movies replete with rising sea-levels and melting glaciers. Whats more, the early consensus pointed squarely at mans activities as the culpritor at least as squarely as scientists do today: [T]he amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is being artificially...

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Oliver Stone - Oliver Stone George Bush Movie Is Capra-esque (Contactmusic Ltd)

Fri, 09 May 2008 12:22:55 GMT

Oliver Stone has described his upcoming film W, about the life of US president George Bush, as a Capra-esque tale.Having courted controversy with his ...

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House passes mortgage measure (The Washington Times)

Fri, 09 May 2008 04:45:23 GMT

... David Wu, Oregon Democrat, compared Republicans to the skinflint banker Mr. Potter character in Frank Capra's 1946 film "It's a Wonderful Life," who coldly advocated evicting poor families with children because they were not his children."What I'm hearing from the other side is, 'They are not my children. They are irresponsible. Throw them out,' " Mr. Wu told the chamber.Rep. Judy...

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13:00 The Bitter Tea Of General Yen (Channel 4)

Fri, 09 May 2008 02:45:04 GMT

(1933) Frank Capra's film stars Barbara Stanwyck as Megan Davis, an American missionary who travels to Shanghai to marry a medical missionary.

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‘What Happens in Vegas' | 2 stars (KansasCity.com)

Thu, 08 May 2008 22:33:00 GMT

Writers of romantic comedies enjoy having their characters hate each other before they fall in love. If it was good enough for Shakespeare and Frank Capra, it should be good enough for anyone, right?

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Swing Vote: Kevin Costner in a little election year civics lesson (Orlando Sentinel)

Wed, 07 May 2008 15:46:50 GMT

There's nothing wrong with trying to revive the ghost of Frank Capra. I hope this works, and the trailer is funny and sentimental enough to suggest that it might. Kevin Costner, dopey uninformed EveryAmerican ignoramous whose vote decides the future...

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Victory Day 2008 (Russia Blog)

Wed, 07 May 2008 05:41:27 GMT

... World War II: Victory Day 2007 Victory Day 2006 Victory Day 2005 Did Uncle Joe Win the War? Watch Frank Capra's wartime documentary Why We Fight: The Battle for Russia A Russia Today TV video about VE-Day celebrations in Krasnodar Krai in southern Russia

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On Movies & Storytelling (Gay Patriot)

Fri, 02 May 2008 20:18:22 GMT

... I called them filmmakers, distinguishing them from the story-tellers I love (Kazan, Billy Wilder , Frank Capra and Stephen Spielberg to name a few). What these latter understood, I said, was that movies showed us all that is good in the world. I thought that line, about movies and showing us all that is good in the world, simple as it was, trite almost, really got at my love for the...

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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (and Other Classic Films Online) (Open Culture)

Fri, 02 May 2008 07:15:29 GMT

It's not exactly the same as watching a film on the silver screen. But you get what you pay for. Below, we have Frank Capra’s 1939 classic, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, starring Jimmy Stewart and Claude Rains. For those who cling to the hope that democracies can rid themselves of corruption and special [...]

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The occupation and your job (ComingAnarchy.com)

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:11:06 GMT

Grendel sent in this interesting film strip by the famous war-time propagandist Frank Capra. The film was shown to American soldiers assigned to the occupying force in Germany after the second world war. The opening statement of the film is apropos of the situation in Iraq: “By your conduct and attitude while on guard inside Germany you [...]

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TCM Pick O’ The Day — Monday, April 28th (LIBERTAS)

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:08:52 GMT

... Sony lot, it's Columbia Pictures, dammit!, the dream factory Harry Cohn — with a lot of help from Frank Capra — built. Walking past the sound stages (which I always take time to do), I don't picture Spider-man shooting there, I picture Cohn and director Fred Zinneman walking along, heads close, complaining about Ava Gardner breaking their balls to cast has-been Sinatra as Maggio in...

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WHY WE FIGHT (World Prout Assembly)

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:55:54 GMT

... Press, Investigative Reporting and Revisionist History by Michael A. Hoffman II | April 25, 2008 Frank Capra did a movie series in the 1940s called "Why We Fight." It's dated now and his cornball "Capracorn" is no longer as compelling as it once was in the eyes of our parents' generation. Still, there are these days many books, movies and radio and TV talk shows urging us to...

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The State of the Union Is--The Same (The Point)

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:56:55 GMT

I just watched a 1948 Frank Capra film called State of the Union, starring Spencer Tracy as a dark-horse presidential candidate, Katharine Hepburn as his wife, and Angela Lansbury as a power-mad newspaper publisher who is determined to make Tracy--with...

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5 Thing to Remember When Making a Political Comedy (Film School Rejects)

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:35:39 GMT

... a movie about politicians, here are a few things to remember: 1. Politicians Love Talking. If Frank Capra’s brilliant Mr. Smith Goes to Washington teaches us anything, it's that every major problem can be solved forever by talking for a long period of time. Classic everyman Jimmy Stewart provides a heart and soul for Jefferson Smith, and we get to laugh at his naive blunders in politicking...

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Saturday night at the Cinematheque: Barbara Stanwyck in an early Capra film (Letter from Here)

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:56:00 GMT

I'd see Barbara Stanwyck in anything. She's always been one of my favorite stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood, someone who usually transcended the trashy material she often found herself in. That was certainly true of the Cinematheque's Saturday night showing of a restored print of Forbidden , an absurd but very watchable 1932 romantic melodrama directed by Frank Capra and costarring...

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Joey McIntyre Exclusive: Former New Kid Talks ‘On Broadway’ (MTV Movies Blog)

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:23:34 GMT

... cool, but they don’t tell the story that we tell in “On Broadway,” which is sort of a modern-day Frank Capra film. (With real Boston accents!) To me, this film is about breaking down the walls that we put up between ourselves and the ones we love the most. It’s been my experience – and maybe it’s because I’m Boston Irish – that even in a loving family, it is often hard for us to say...

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Tonight's Movie: Tell It to the Judge (1949) (Laura's Miscellaneous Musings)

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 04:50:00 GMT

... in small parts, including Louise Beavers, Thurston Hall, Clem Bevans, Herb Vigran, Jay Novello, Frank Sully, and perennial bit part queen Bess Flowers. This movie runs 87 minutes. The superb set decoration is by William Kiernan, and the film was photographed by Joesph Walker , who shot many great films including several Frank Capra classics. Rosalind Russell's gowns are by...

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Arkansas Rep Has Les Miz, Tommy and More Lined Up for 2008-09 (PlayBill)

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:30:42 GMT

... Life: A Radio Play by Joe Landry, based on the screenplay by Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Frank Capra and Jo Swerling. "It's the familiar story, told in its entirety, and the sentiment that you love, made fresh for the stage. Sit back, as if in your family living room in the 1940s, and listen to the story on the radio, complete with sound effects and commercials. See — and hear...

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First Look: Kevin Costner in Swing Vote (/Film)

orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 08:56:31 GMT

... that is sure to touch and entertain moviegoers in the same way that some of the classic films by Frank Capra have done in the past.” Yeah, a little bit skeptical over here. Frank Capra? really? Joshua Michael Stern , the writer of the 2007 direct-to-dvd Wesley Snipes action film The Contractor , helmed this project based on a script he also wrote with Jason Richman ,...

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