Frank Borzage’s best films create a world where romantic love transforms space into a private wonderland, a seemingly frail but indestructible, very feminine bulwark against the threat of organized ...

Moonrise has a perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes.

Last week, the University of Chicago’s Doc Films presented a screening of Frank Borzage’s A Farewell to Arms, an adaptation of the Ernest Hemingway novel. Borzage is a great filmmaker, but the general ...

As Martin Scorsese, a lifelong admirer, notes in his introduction, “[Frank] Borzage... was a romantic, and that’s one strike against him... I think I can safely say that there isn’t an ironic moment ...

Frank Borzage is an undisputed master of sentimental melodrama, as long as we understand those aren’t dirty words. He made film after film about strong women and noble men who suffer for love, which ...

Frank Borzage was the winner of the first Academy Award Oscar presented to a director in 1927 for "Seventh Heaven." He left school when he was 14 to become an actor and worked in stock and repertory ...

Two retrospectives starting today (Friday) at Pacific Film Archive will illuminate the work of actress Janet Gaynor and director Frank Borzage, both sterling talents in their day but unjustly ...

As a director, Frank Borzage brought style, taste, intelligence, and commitment to the most romantic nonsense. In other words: he was invaluable to Hollywood. Two examples from 1946 are now available ...

Compared to the director Frank Borzage, the sentimental populist Frank Capra was a gimlet-eyed cynic, and Borzage’s romantic 1935 drama “Living on Velvet” (which I discuss in this clip) is a case in ...

Charles Farrell and Janet (Sunrise) Gaynor aren’t now household names like Bogart and Bacall or Tracy and Hepburn. But they were possibly Hollywood’s most transcendently romantic pairing in three ...