It's A Wonderful Life (Capra, 1946): Prince Charles Cinema, 6pm and 8.50pm
Chicago Reader review:
'The film Frank Capra was born to make. This 1946 release marked his
return to features after four years of turning out propaganda films for
the government, and Capra poured his heart and soul into it. James
Stewart stars as a small-town nobody, on the brink of suicide, who
believes his life is worthless. Guardian angel Henry Travers shows him
how wrong he is by letting Stewart see what would have happened had he
never been born. Wonderfully drawn and acted by a superb cast (Donna
Reed, Beulah Bondi, Thomas Mitchell, Lionel Barrymore, Gloria Grahame)
and told with a sense of image and metaphor (the use of water is
especially elegant) that appears in no other Capra film. The epiphany of
movie sentiment and a transcendent experience.' Dave Kehr
Here's the phone scene. Gets me every single time.
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