The Films of Morris Engel (Little Fugitive: Special Edition / Lovers and Lollipops / Weddings and Babies)
by Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin
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Actor: Viveca LindforsDirector: Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin
Brand: Kino International
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 287 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-05-06
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: 6092
Studio: KINO INTERNATIONAL
Product features:
- FILMS OF MORRIS ENGEL, THE (DVD MOVIE)
DVD Reviews of The Films of Morris Engel (Little Fugitive: Special Edition / Lovers and Lollipops / Weddings and Babies)
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Summary: 4 Stars
I love the documentaries that come with the Criterion boxed set and I especially admire Morris Engel for his courage in standing up to the big studios. That said, Lovers and Lollipops isn't a great movie. Though it may be a great work of art. Oh what a paradox.
It is really the story of Hamlet if Hamlet was not the prince of Denmark but instead a small girl living with her mom in a charming mid-1950s Manhattan apartment.
And it is oddly similar to Francoise Sagan's Bonjour Tristesse, in which the heroine will do anything, and I mean anything, to make sure her father doesn't re-marry, and the tension is between her hatred of Deborah Kerr and her growing admiration for her, even though she has vowed to destroy her. Her the little girl is determined to get Larry out of her life even if it means destroying her mother's main chance for a happy new life. And yet she likes Larry and has many good times with him. He buys her a miniature sailboat, and a dancing bear doll that claps cymbals together--from the old Macy's toy department--clever product placement of the Macy's bag. He reads to her, jokes with her, but maybe Peggy knows that deep down he doesn't really like her and his affectionate-seeming banter is only part of his ploy to win her mother's heart. Ann (the mother, played by Lori March) is bright enough, but in some ways she's dumb as a post.
Oh, those lollipops! Stanley Kubrick had Lolita licking a lollipop, but little Peggy plants hers, stick down, in the sand at Jones Beach, and then washes off the sand by sticking them under the incoming waves. No wonder Ann gets so upset with Larry! I didn't understand exactly what it was about Larry's father. Larry wanted Ann to meet his father but to make no mention of Peggy? So whatever happened to that plot, it just went the way of the lollipops I guess. The film itself remains as a great open window into a long-ago bourgeois dream of Manhattan without crime, without dirt, without race, a Jamesian New York modeled on the London of What Maisie Knew.
Weddings and Babies attempts to widen the racial paradigms of L&L by introducing the character of Bea, a nomadic lonely soul who hails from--what, Sweden I guess. She is played by Viveka Lindfors who seems to be channeling the spirit of Anna Magnani, who was very much alive at the time and who is responsible, by her carbon copy here--well, make that a very faint 4th generation Xerox--for the link between the Engel-Orkin films and the original neo-realismo of De Sica and Rossellini.
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Description of The Films of Morris Engel (Little Fugitive: Special Edition / Lovers and Lollipops / Weddings and Babies)
DISC 1 - LITTLE FUGITIVE (1953) (SPECIAL EDITION) Widely regarded as one of the most influential and enjoyable films of the American independent cinema, Little Fugitive is an utterly charming fable that poetically captures the joys and wonders of childhood. When a seven-year-old boy (Richie Andrusco) is tricked into believing he killed his older brother, he gathers his meager possessions and flees to New York s nether wonderland: Coney Island. Upon and beneath the crowded boardwalk, Joey experiences a day and night filled with adventures and mysteries, resulting in a film that is refreshingly spontaneous and thoroughly delightful. Hailed by critics as a groundbreaking cinematic feat, Little Fugitive won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, played in nearly 5,000 theatres in the U.S. and is now recognized as a classic of American independent film. WINNER: Silver Lion 1953 Venice Film Festival - ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE - Best Screenplay - Inducted in 1997 to the NATIONAL FILM REGISTRY by the Library of Congress and the National Film Preservation Board - SPECIAL FEATURES: Feature-length Audio Commentary by Morris Engel - Two Documentary Films by Mary Engel: Morris Engel: The Independent (2008, 28 min) and Ruth Orkin: Frames of Life (1995, 18 min.) - Theatrical Trailer - Image Gallery - REMASTERED FROM A NEW HIGH-DEFINITION TRANSFER.DISC 2 - LOVERS AND LOLLIPOPS / WEDDINGS AND BABIES (DOUBLE FEATURE) - LOVERS AND LOLLIPOPS (1955) A miniature movie masterpiece - CUE MAGAZINE - A follow-up to the hugely successful Little Fugitive, Lovers and Lollipops is the enchanting tale of a seven-year-old girl s reaction to her mom s new boyfriend. When an attractive widow begins seeing an old friend, her daughter Peggy (Cathy Dunn) feels their relationship threatened. Though not always intentionally, Peggy responds by thwarting the romance that is blossoming between the two adults. Shot on location among the landmarks of New York City the Central Park Zoo, Macy s Toy Department, the Statue of Liberty and Chinatown Lovers and Lollipops is a lyrical ode to the resilience of love and the charms of youth. - Newly Re-mastered for DVD - WEDDINGS AND BABIES (1958) - ONE OF THE YEAR S TEN BEST! One of the most exciting feature films the U.S. has produced in a decade. TIME MAGAZINE - A work of artistic finesse and great emotional candor, Morris Engel s Weddings and Babies is a bittersweet tale of love, hope and sacrifice, staged to perfection amid the sidewalks and storefront apartments of New York s Little Italy. Viveca Lindfors stars as Bea, a Swedish-born woman who yearns to begin a family with her photographer boyfriend Al. But the two things to which Al has devoted his career weddings and babies are the very things he cannot make room for in his life. The unexpected appearance of Al s aging mother, evicted from a boarding house, only intensifies his familial confusion, and Bea must decide whether to wait for Al or seek happiness elsewhere.
French director François Truffaut once said, "Our New Wave would never have come into being if it hadn't been for the young Morris Engel, with his fine Little Fugitive." High praise indeed, and as Truffaut observed, this early milestone of American independent filmmaking had a powerful influence on such later French classics as The Red Balloon and Truffaut's own Les Mistons and The 400 Blows.
Codirected by Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, and Ruth Orkin, and photographed by Engel in New York during the summer of 1952, the film tells the simple story of a 7-year-old Brooklyn boy named Joey (charmingly played by nonactor Richie Andrusco), who flees to Coney Island after a mischievous prank leads Joey to believe he's accidentally killed his older brother Lennie. With six dollars in his pocket, Joey indulges himself with amusement rides and junk food, and as the weekend progresses, Lennie begins an equally adventurous search for his missing kid brother.
Winner of the Silver Lion award at the 1953 Venice Film Festival and Oscar nominee for Best Story, Little Fugitive was inducted into the prestigious National Film Registry in 1997. Making innovative use of a hand-held camera (which impressed Engel's friend Stanley Kubrick, who used the same equipment for his debut feature Fear and Desire), the film favors image over dialogue, and unfolds with timeless and universal appeal. A pleasure from start to finish, Little Fugitive is a little masterpiece that you'll never forget. --Jeff Shannon
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