Salik Shah on filmmaker Frank Capra’s relationship with screenwriter Robert Riskin. The last day of December demands introspection, and I sense a now all-too-familiar pressure to choose the right words for this end note. The year on the calendar upsets my plans. These plans have now become ‘old plans’; plans that stopped my time a [...]
Archive for January 6, 2012
The Capra Hyperbole : One Man, One Film
Posted: January 6, 2012 in cinema, writingTags: Frank Capra, It Happened One Night, Lost Horizon, Meet John Doe, Mr Deeds Goes to Town, Mr Smith Goes to Washington, Robert Riskin, Salik Shah
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