Capital Celluloid 2018 - Day 214: Sat Aug 11

Mannequin (Borzage, 1937): BFI Southbank, NFT2, 8.40pm


This 35mm screening, which is also being shown on August 15th, is part of the Joan Crawford season at BFI Southbank. Full details here.

Chicago Reader review:
Joan Crawford is a poor girl from the lower east side, unhappily married to a petty crook, who finds relief with Spencer Tracy, a self-made millionaire. Frank Borzage's gift for compact, succinct, visual metaphor is evident in his use of a flickering lightbulb in the stairway of Crawford's tenement apartment; it becomes, in the space of a few frames, a heartbreaking symbol of dying hope.
Dave Kehr


Here (and above) is the trailer.

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