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 ...

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 ...

Big news today. 20th Century Fox Home Video, which offered the Cinephile event of the 2008 with the release of “Ford at Fox,” will follow up with a box set devoted to Ford’s contemporary Frank Borzage ...

He made so many films that they resist an accurate count, somewhere around 100 in a career that lasted from 1915 to 1959. Once, his pictures were among the most popular ever produced, with his name in ...

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 ...

Director Frank Borzage was in love with love. And by love here we mean the unabashed, heart-on-your-sleeve, grand passion variety. In a career that spanned more than four decades, Borzage directed ...

Now that’s what I call Romantic. “Romantic” isn’t a word I’d use to describe a book as stark and jaded as Ernest Hemingway’s “A Farewell to Arms” (1929), about the doomed romance between an American ...

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 ...