30 Replies to “I’ve Always Loved You (Frank Borzage, 1946)”

  1. I watched this a very long time ago but did not recall that I had until near the end. It is not quite as I recall but it is a good film but memory fills in conversations that did not happen but were assumptions that the concert switch was conspired.

  2. Darling…there’s to much aluminum in my brain for me to focus on numbering and trying to learn at the same time. Let me finish this and then I will follow your foot steps Darling ✍???? Team George ?

  3. The colours, the music, the pianos, the face…the Angel and the badman, Goronoff, makes for "GorYnoff" . Nice hint at Pygmalion, too. PS, may i beg to disagree with the opening credits that Rubinstein was the world's greatest pianist? But he's definitely given us a great soundtrack. Thanks for the upload.

  4. My mother purchased my first piano from Sherman Clay in No. California when I was about 10. We were poor and $200 at that time was a lot of $$$ for our family but my mom got them to accept $5.00/month which she paid on time each month. Then the store sent us to a piano teacher several feet away from the store and I began piano lessons. I heard Clair de Lune by Debussy one day on the radio and bought the music sheet at Sherman Clay, intending to play it for my teacher as a surprise. It took me months and months to learn. Then the day arrived and I asked her if I could play something I learned on my own. She said ok. While I played, I noticed her crying and immediately thought "this is terrible, she doesn't like it." But I was wrong. She loved it. I asked why she was crying and she said it was just beautiful. She looked at the music sheet and said, "Maria this is the original piece." No wonder it took so long to learn! I practiced and practiced my piano, played the piano in orchestra in high school, and planned to have a career as a pianist. Then, while as a university student I took piano from a man who was supposed to be the best at the university and continued with my original teacher. The professor and I did not get along too well, then an incident occurred in front of other students and I felt insulted by him so I left the classroom. I walked to my original teacher's studio and told her what took place. She ordered me to return and apologize to him. I said no b/c I had done nothing for which I had to apologize. She warned me she would end my lessons with her if I did not return and apologize. Well, that ended my dreams of being a pianist. I was 17-years-old at the time. I continued to play on my own but playing was never the same for me. This work by Rachmaninoff has always been my favorite.

  5. Maria Ouspenskaya   …   always a delight to watch. (See "The Rains Came" on youtube).
    I must admit the duel between pianist & conductor left me rather bewildered.

  6. Why this film didnt have an oscar nomination for best cinematography ?
    And for art-direction too.
    The costumes design are very nice. Another nomination.

  7. Fantastic that it is in Technicolor and also in HD. Great lighting and colour composition. Worth watching on a large screen 4K TV just for the sharpness of the picture, then there is the sumptuous colourful sets. The furniture fabrics and clothing you feel you can even touch. Not bad for a 74 year old film. These days many folks are looking for HD content in the older films, if it's in Technicolor as well that is the cherry on the top.

    To see something, almost anything of that age or even older in almost pin sharp clarity just takes it to an unreal level. Sure there was good acting, production & direction but folks can like a movie for many reasons, whatever reasons they like, to like a movie for it just being in Technicolor on its own is valid enough. But Technicolor and in HD sure is hard to beat.

    A Technicolor box set in HD on Blu ray if you could ever get the rights to it, (Requiring extensive film studio cooperation) maybe starting from Jan 1940, going through the years, year by year up to at least 1955, collating every single one to its best quality, with all the accompanying printed Paraphernalia. Something Spielberg, Cameron or Peter Jackson, (he is keen on restoring films) or some other renowned industry type with statue could arrange. Adding to their stature as a Director, to some people well in the future, it could even overshadow it, so the egotist may be weary to participate, creating something bigger than themselves. But instead of being known as a director of that 20th century age, (Albeit latter part) they would in the far future also be known for this.

    There are over 500 hundred Technicolor films we know but each year would contain many good films, each being given equal billing, in print anyway, a widespread collection of genre's, something for everyone, releasing them bit by bit, maybe by the year, then towards the end releasing the pre 1940's, then later on after that the post 1955 ones, what a collection that would be.

    Released every so often, so folks had time to see that batch before the next one was available. Spread out over 5 to 10 years or so, something people would collect and due to their existing expenditure keep on purchasing, they may not mind if it was a reasonable price. People like to collect box sets on a regular basis, give them something to look forward to.
    Known as the 'Technicolor Collection', the sheer size & enormity of the whole project would make it a major thing in the history of the 20th century film industry. Every single movie available, the whole lot or none at all. Something they would be watching in hundreds of years time transferred by then on their current viewing format, all nicely packaged up now for them.

    Time to get it all processed off the surviving best source now, get it up to HD Blu ray standard if possible, clean it all up, up to the above crisp clean movie standard, then It'll survive through the ages, if collated, if the time & effort is put in right now.

    It just needs maybe Cameron, Jackson or Spielberg or a combination of the three to spend the time on this. They may even become to be seen as the director of directors, directing the coming together of all these hundreds of movies. Once they initially get it all negotiated with all the film studios, a hard enough task on its own, they then oversee the whole project, though still doing other projects on the side, leaving it to the film editors to process it all, though contributing in some way with the associated bonus type material with associates of theirs.

    Pulling together over 500 movies in such a way what a project it would be, it just needs suggesting to the appropriate person to take it all on. Many folks need to badger one or the other of these industry big names to take the whole project on.

    Without that big name Industry giant to firstly negotiate then arrange it all it'll never get done, with them it could be realised, something many film buffs would like to see. Can they feel the thrill of regularly collecting them and visualise having the entire collection on their shelves right now?. I am at a loss for not having such a collection. Who has the necessary ability to get this done?

  8. Great Movie ever!This is the Nature of things' Development.Sometime,someone just have to split in pieces for a compliment.Great Composer,Conductor,Musician,may not be excellent Actors,as well as on this Musical.

  9. “Nicholas! Nicholas!”
    “Here I am.”
    “Come in here.”
    “The door is locked, Maestro.”
    “The window is open.”
    “Always I forget things. Mostly I forget Nicholas that’s why I like him.”
    ☺️
    Great writers, actors, and the production team.✨??✨

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