Capra's IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (rewatch thoughts)
(4K at Barrymore Film Center... Clarence, I somehow managed to give this 4.5 Stars previously, which seems like an error in retrospect. Of course it's a five-star movie; aside from being a little too cynical 20 years ago when I fitst watched this, I think I just looked at the year of 1946 and see a lot of other films - like Shoeshine, notorious, paisan, the Best Years of Our Lives, A Matter of Life and Death my number one pretty easily - that I put above it which really speaks more to how great a year it was then anything lacking in this film. Just thinking about certain scenes and moments are raising it in my estimation even before I sit down to watch it again.) Seeing this again... yeah, still pretty great. I do wonder why there is a random raven at the Bailey brothers office though. Just like... what's his story? Frank Capra puts that big South Parkian You know, I Learned Something Today at the end where Clarence leaves the note for George, "Remember, no man is a failu...
