for his two films (the
masterpiece "Sunrise" and the DVD debut of "City Girl"), it's the holy trinity of romantic classics from
silent movie master Frank Borzage that makes this essential. "Seventh Heaven" (pictured), "Street Angel" and "Lucky Star" are compassionate, dreamy portraits of
hardscrabble lives, and Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell glow within Borzage's
delicate style. They are the apex of silent movie style, and Fox debuts these
masterpieces in lovely editions, along with seven other silent and sound Borzage
features and a reconstruction of his incomplete "The River." The album-sized
case comes with an excellent documentary and two beautifully illustrated books.
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(Fox/Everett Collection)
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