Breaking the Code: Boxed Set Update

After re-watching The Three Faces of Eve (1957), I realize its not a suitable option for my boxed set. But I have to work with what I've got nontheless. Its too late to find a new film selection and I'm already knee-deep in image research and my proposal is due on Thursday, so I cannot back out now. However, the film has been very inspiring visually for the project, so I'm glad of that at least. The design of the two menu screens of the DVD have inspired me to do something similar with the boxed set cover. It is tres cool! See below.

Breaking the Code: Boxed Set Directors

I've been playing around with images and doing some image research. I decided that in the booklet that goes with the boxed set, that the directors would appear in profile as a sort of stamp. Their presence is kind of vague but its also like they gave their seal of approval of sorts. Anyways, I just like how they look.

Otto Preminger ~ Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

Elia Kazan ~ Baby Doll (1956)

Charles Laughton ~ The Night of the Hunter (1955)

Joseph L. Mankiewicz ~ Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)

Nunnally Johnson ~ The Three Faces of Eve (1957)

Reactions to Splendor in the Grass (1961)

Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind

~ Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood ~

~ William Wordsworth ~

• Consequences of sexual repression affect both the female and male protagonist. A rarity amongst coming of age stories.
• I was both enraptured by the story but put off by the soundtrack. Violins screeching the same sentimental notes over and over again was too much.
• The title of the movie means something to the story and its characters. The fact that it comes from a line written by a well-known Romantic poet gives it even more credence.
• I could not have seen this same story taking place in a city. There is something about rural open space, small communities and isolation that exaggerates the human condition.
• A tolerable, even enjoyable Natalie Wood. That says a lot for me, I'm not a fan.