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SYNOPSIS: Of Make Way for Tomorrow, Orson Welles told Peter Bogdanovich: Oh my God that s the saddest movie ever made. Leo McCarey s personal favourite among all his films (which included The Awful Truth and An Affair to Remember) is sad, yes, but it also stands as cathartic affirmation of the dignity of human feeling, and in the testament of such achieves a subtle complexity of characterisation on par with Renoir, Ford, and Hawks. Victor Moore and Beulah Bondi, two of the great Hollywood character actors, portray the couple whose house the bank has foreclosed upon, and who are forced subsequently to move into their children s homes in the city. A near-musical restructuring of gratitude and debt ensues once the offspring deem the couple s lodging an imposition: the two are separated, then reunited weeks later... as they glide inexorably into an uncertain future.
Unrelentingly unsentimental, Make Way for Tomorrow exerted a powerful influence on Ozu s Tokyo Story and several other key entries in the Japanese master s body of work. It is a film that, to give Welles the last word, could make a stone cry. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Leo McCarey s truly great Make Way for Tomorrow for the first time on Blu-ray anywhere in the world, as part of this Dual Format (Blu-ray + DVD) edition.
DUAL FORMAT EDITION INCLUDING:
Unrelentingly unsentimental, Make Way for Tomorrow exerted a powerful influence on Ozu s Tokyo Story and several other key entries in the Japanese master s body of work. It is a film that, to give Welles the last word, could make a stone cry. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Leo McCarey s truly great Make Way for Tomorrow for the first time on Blu-ray anywhere in the world, as part of this Dual Format (Blu-ray + DVD) edition.
DUAL FORMAT EDITION INCLUDING:
- Newly restored 1080p HD encode in the film s original aspect ratio
- Peter Bogdanovich discussing McCarey and the film [20:00]
- Gary Giddins discussing the film s social and political contexts [21:00]
- Optional English subtitles (SDH) for the deaf and hearing-impaired
- Lengthy booklet featuring a new essay on the film by writer and Library of America editor Geoffrey O Brien, and an excerpt from Josephine Lawrence s source novel Years Are So Long
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
By lottigee
Format:Blu-ray|Amazon Verified Purchase
A forgotten classic indeed
Until this month I had never even realised this movie existed and am really glad I got to see it on bd for the first time. It is as sad as they say, but portrays old age and separation in a non sentimental way, great acting from the two leads and a good transfer with a very good soundtrack.
Recommended you won't regret it.
Until this month I had never even realised this movie existed and am really glad I got to see it on bd for the first time. It is as sad as they say, but portrays old age and separation in a non sentimental way, great acting from the two leads and a good transfer with a very good soundtrack.
Recommended you won't regret it.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By T Everson
Format:Blu-ray
'Make Way For Tomorrow' is a film that deals with a subject that is seldom dealt with in film: becoming old and forced to depend on your children for support. Interestingly enough, Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story, one of the most critically acclaimed films of all time, uses a very similar concept to 'Make Way For Tomorrow', and Ozu himself stated that he had been heavily influenced by this film when directing Tokyo Story. However, many people have heard of 'Tokyo Story', and as I said earlier, it consistently ranks towards the top of 'Best Ever Movie' polls, but 'Make Way For Tomorrow' unaccountably seems to have become almost forgotten. Make no mistake, 'Make Way For Tomorrow' is a seriously good yet deeply depressing film. I think the biggest problem facing this film, and director Leo McCarey at the time, is that it's simply very, very un-Hollywood
By 1937, Leo McCarey was an experienced filmmaker. With hundreds of movies to his name, he'd built up a solid reputation in Hollywood, working with Laurel and Hardy amongst others, and had four years previously directed the best of all the Marx Brothers' films, Duck Soup. However, McCarey himself considered 'Make Way For Tomorrow' his favourite of all his films. When, in 1938, he won an Academy Award for directing The Awful Truth, he stated in his acceptance speech that he believed they had given it him for the wrong picture.... Read more ›
By 1937, Leo McCarey was an experienced filmmaker. With hundreds of movies to his name, he'd built up a solid reputation in Hollywood, working with Laurel and Hardy amongst others, and had four years previously directed the best of all the Marx Brothers' films, Duck Soup. However, McCarey himself considered 'Make Way For Tomorrow' his favourite of all his films. When, in 1938, he won an Academy Award for directing The Awful Truth, he stated in his acceptance speech that he believed they had given it him for the wrong picture.... Read more ›
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By Pannie Moss
Format:Blu-ray|Amazon Verified Purchase
Very touching film about love, relationships, families and getting older. I'm so glad I bought this film despite not having heard of it. Well acted and directed, and touching on a subject that is not broached often. Highly recommended!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By Jari Ahvalo
Format:Blu-ray
Watched this for the first time a few days ago. Can't shake it of my mind. Too often, even great films that I have enjoyed watching, don't seem to have much of an effect, but this film keeps lingering. Not an easy film to watch. Very sad, aching, defastating, but still I felt it also being very warm, touching and quite often also very funny. Very "human". I would say this is one of the very few "perfect" films. I very warmly recommend this film. I know I will be watching this many times over.
Blu ray is also of great quality in picture and sound for a film almost 75years old.
Blu ray is also of great quality in picture and sound for a film almost 75years old.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By David Benson
Format:DVD
An amazing discovery: this film is making its first appearance in any publicly-available format, yet it is unquestionably one of the greatest pieces of film-making, in every aspect, you will ever have seen.
It is a deeply affecting and uncompromising tale of a desperately vulnerable man and wife, with never a day apart in fifty years, who suddenly find themselves unable to cope, in everyone's way and finally, separated.
Their plight is told with unflinching reality and little respite from the sadness: even the many comic moments make your eyes prick with tears. Every character who appears is believable and, as so rarely happens in Hollywood product then as now, the viewer is never told what to think of them or how to judge their actions. We are left with the question: how would we respond in such an emotionally complex situation?
This film's reputation as a classic should be up there with It's a Wonderful Life but has suffered serious neglect, perhaps because it deals with a subject that few can consider, unlike Make Way For Tomorrow, without flinching.
A beautiful, glowing print, excellent sound and some interesting extras including a booklet.
Another superb Eureka release.
It is a deeply affecting and uncompromising tale of a desperately vulnerable man and wife, with never a day apart in fifty years, who suddenly find themselves unable to cope, in everyone's way and finally, separated.
Their plight is told with unflinching reality and little respite from the sadness: even the many comic moments make your eyes prick with tears. Every character who appears is believable and, as so rarely happens in Hollywood product then as now, the viewer is never told what to think of them or how to judge their actions. We are left with the question: how would we respond in such an emotionally complex situation?
This film's reputation as a classic should be up there with It's a Wonderful Life but has suffered serious neglect, perhaps because it deals with a subject that few can consider, unlike Make Way For Tomorrow, without flinching.
A beautiful, glowing print, excellent sound and some interesting extras including a booklet.
Another superb Eureka release.
By Mario
Format:Blu-ray
Amazing performances from the two leads and amazing it got made in a way. Heartbreakingly convincing as it gathers to a its emotional climax but beautifully scripted and only bettered by Tokyo Story in that that film has an even more sombre context of societal sadness (and the greatest director ever)which is also never mentioned and thus loses the slightest vestiges of sentimentality this might contain. In any case, despite war or depression, both films say something universally relevant and honest, especially about the children who are culpable but somehow know they are - if they were just scum then we could hate them, but we can't, because we are in like them too.
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