Blu-ray Release: Make Way for Tomorrow

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Laurence
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Blu-ray Release Date: May 12, 2015
Price: Blu-ray $39.95
Studio: Criterion

Make Way for Tomorrow, by Leo McCarey (An Affair to Remember), is one of the great unsung Hollywood romance-dramas, an enormously moving Depression-era depiction of the frustrations of family, aging, and the generation gap.

VBeulah Bondi and Victor Moore stick it out in Make Way for Tomorrow.

Beulah Bondi and Victor Moore stick it out in Make Way for Tomorrow.

Beulah Bondi (It’s a Wonderful Life) and Victor Moore (Swing Time) headline a cast of grand character actors, starring as an elderly couple who must move in with their grown children after the bank takes their home, yet end up separated and subject to their offspring’s selfish whims.

An inspiration for Yasujiro Ozu’s Tokyo Story, the 1937 movie is one of American cinema’s classic tearjerkers, all the way to its unflinching ending, which McCarey refused to change despite studio pressure.

The Blu-ray edition of Make Way For Tomorrow (a DVD edition was issued several years back) contains the following:

  • High-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
    • Tomorrow, Yesterday, and Today, an interview from 2009 featuring filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich discussing the career of director Leo McCarey and Make Way for Tomorrow
    • Video interview from 2009 with critic Gary Giddins, in which he talks about McCarey’s artistry and the political and social context of the film
    • A booklet featuring essays by critic Tag Gallagher and filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier, and an excerpt from film scholar Robin Wood’s 1998 piece “Leo McCarey and Family Values”

 

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About Laurence

Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.