When I think of Thanksgiving movies, I think of Ang Lee’s The Ice Storm (1997) and Woody Allen’s Hannah and her Sisters (1986). While Allen’s film takes place over two years and three Thanksgivings in the mid-1980s, The Ice Storm is set over one fateful Thanksgiving weekend in 1973. A real atmospheric masterpiece, it is the artful production and costume design that imparts so much of the mood—it reads as the Seventies but with an icy detachment that imparts extra layers to the fraught lives of the characters. Based on
Thanks for that exploration of a relationship between art and film, or art informing film.
I suggest another film similarly bound to its artistic mood board, although it's pop culture imagery and advertising that informs the look of 'The Loveless' (1981), Kathryn Bigelow's first film (co-directed with Monty Montgomery), which shows her brilliant future, although the film was not well received in the day. For me, it was an instant classic, and I learned every word of the dialogue in the '80s. I screened it the first year of my Motorcycle Film Festival in NYC (2013), and was happy to see how well the film held up, and how much better the audience 'got' it 30 years later - much more than when it came out! Time is kind to works of genius...
Thanks for that exploration of a relationship between art and film, or art informing film.
I suggest another film similarly bound to its artistic mood board, although it's pop culture imagery and advertising that informs the look of 'The Loveless' (1981), Kathryn Bigelow's first film (co-directed with Monty Montgomery), which shows her brilliant future, although the film was not well received in the day. For me, it was an instant classic, and I learned every word of the dialogue in the '80s. I screened it the first year of my Motorcycle Film Festival in NYC (2013), and was happy to see how well the film held up, and how much better the audience 'got' it 30 years later - much more than when it came out! Time is kind to works of genius...