‘Frank Capra: Mr America’ Filmmakers On Why Their Candid Doc Of A Complicated Hollywood Legend Will Speak To Modern Audiences — Venice

Frank Capra has long been considered one Hollywood’s most successful, influential and complex film directors and, in the new feature documentary Frank Capra: Mr America, which is premiering at the Venice Film Festival later this week, audiences will get a chance to see previously unseen archives that examine the Sicilian-born director’s rags-to-riches story whilst unpicking his complicated relationship with America.

August 30, 2023 · 1 min · 98 words · Christopher Robinson

Smith Goes to Washingtonand the now Christmas classicIts a Wonderful Life.

He approached the studio about a potential project on Capra and Sony agreed to fully-finance the $500,000 documentary.

And that posed a challenge, which got me really excited.

‘Frank Capra: Mr America’Columbia Pictures Industries

Its not surprising that people responded to his work so forcefully and in such huge numbers.

So, it just felt really timely and kind of knotty and that got me excited about it.

Frank Capra: Mr Americapremieres in Venice on September 1, 2023, at 5pm at the Sala Casino.

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