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MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW (1937)

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User Rating:   7.9/10   722 votes

Criterion Collection # 505

DVD Release Date: February 23, 2010

Verenigde Staten
Drama
91 minuten

geregisseerd door Leo McCarey
met Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi en Fay Bainter

Een bejaard echtpaar wordt vanwege financi�le problemen uit elkaar gehaald door hun kinderen. Ze worden in verschillende bejaardenhuizen geplaatst, maar de twee kunnen echter niet meer zonder elkaar leven.


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Leo McCarey?s Make Way for Tomorrow is one of the great unsung Hollywood masterpieces, an enormously moving Depression-era depiction of the frustrations of family, aging, and the generation gap. Victor Moore and Beulah Bondi headline a cast of incomparable character actors, starring as an elderly couple who must move in with their grown children after the bank takes their home, yet end up separated and subject to their offspring?s selfish whims. An inspiration for Ozu?s Tokyo Story, Make Way for Tomorrow is among American cinema?s purest tearjerkers, all the way to its unflinching ending, which McCarey refused to change despite studio pressure.

It's said this film inspired Yasujiro Ozu's "Toyko Story," the only film that ever made my students cry. This one might do the same. Entertainment is about the way things should be. Art is about the way they are. The closing passages of "Make Way for Tomorrow" depend on deep empathy between the filmmakers and the characters. They respect them. These two people have spent a lifetime together, raised a family and lived in their own home until Bark got laid off. They've maintained a mutual dignity and they're not about to turn sappy now.


Format: NTSC

DVD Size: 7.48 GB -- Exact Untouched Copy

Runtime (main feature): 92 minutes

Type: Black and White

Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1

Sound (main feature): English

Subtitles: optional English


DISC FEATURES:

# New, restored high-definition digital transfer.
# Tomorrow, Yesterday, and Today, a new video interview featuring filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich discussing the career of Leo McCarey and Make Way for Tomorrow (19:52).
# New video interview with critic Gary Giddins in which he talks about McCarey's artistry and the political and social context of the film (20:09).


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