Gregg Toland

TCM Film Festival Fanatics Cry Foul

Mar 12, 2015 Wade Sheeler 33

Let me start out by making this disclaimer. I am a film fanatic. I have been all my life. I originally wanted to be a cartoonist, but when I saw Citizen Kane, (yes really, Citizen […]

William Wyler’s Love Letter to His Comrades in Arms

Nov 11, 2014 Jill Blake 4

In the opening shot of William Wyler’s The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), Captain Fred Derry walks into an airport terminal in hopes of catching a flight home to Boone City, USA. Upon reaching the clerk […]