You Can’t Take It With You: A Second Look

#4 in my ranking of Frank Capra's filmography. #20 in my ranking of Best Picture winners at the Oscars. You Can't Take It With You would make an interesting double feature alongside Come and Get It. Not only do their titles oddly compliment each other, but they both star Edward Arnold as, alternatively, a man…

Lost Horizon

#11 in my ranking of Frank Capra's filmography. This is Frank Capra's most ambitious film, an effort to create a new world and the closest he ever got to making a science fiction film. It's also where Capra got almost completely lost in the world that he and Robert Riskin created based on the novel…

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

#6 in my ranking of Frank Capra's filmography. The precursor to this was American Madness, the first fully Capra film, but this is where Frank Capra entered that stage in his career where he completely became what he's become known for: the optimist in the midst of the Depression, the one who insisted that the…

Broadway Bill

#21 in my ranking of Frank Capra's filmography. From 1934 to 1946, Frank Capra's movies are all well known and beloved...except this one. His golden age started the year before with It Happened One Night and would last through his second film after returning from his efforts to help document the Second World War, but…

It Happened One Night: A Second Look

#5 in my ranking of Frank Capra's filmography. #34 in my ranking of Best Picture winners at the Oscars. Another example of why I really like revisiting these films I've seen before in the context of a filmmaker's body of work because certain larger narrative aspects to the filmmaker's career become clearer. It's interesting to…