You Must Remember This [2 Discs]

Clint Eastwood Director: Richard Schickel

Overview

Jack L. Warner, Harry Warner, Albert Warner and Sam Warner were siblings who were born in Poland and emigrated to Canada near the turn of the century. In 1903, the brothers entered the budding motion picture business, first running a traveling show that brought movies to small towns in the Midwest and then opening a theater in Newcastle, Pennsylvania. In time, the Warner Brothers moved into film production, and would open their own studio in 1923. Warner Brothers quickly established itself as a studio with both nerve and vision; they were the first studio to enjoy major success with talking pictures and musicals, they were an early supporter of color films, they took on the censors with gangster films that dealt with violent crime in a realistic manner, and were unafraid to make movies that confronted the major issues of the day, such as racism, anti-Semitism, governmental corruption, abuses in the prison system and freedom of the press. Warner Brothers also made stars out of unconventional talents such as James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis and Paul Muni, and hosted a cartoon studio that gave birth to Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Sylvester the Cat and Elmer J. Fudd. Film historian and filmmaker Richard Schickel pays homage to the formative years of one of Hollywood's greatest entertainment empires in You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story 1923-1949, a documentary that features plentiful film clips as well as the behind-the-scenes story of how the studio's great films came to be. Clint Eastwood narrates.

Product Details

Release Date:	02/01/2011
UPC:	0883929113996
Original Release:	2008
Rating:	NR
Source:	Warner Home Video
Region Code:	1
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Sales rank:	54,146

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Clint Eastwood	Narrator,Narrator
Casey Cohen	Composer

Technical Credits

Richard Schickel

George Perry

Richard Schickel	Director,Screenwriter,Producer
George Perry	Screenwriter
Clint Eastwood	Executive Producer
Doug Freeman	Producer

Editorial Reviews

Perry's entries are the meat-and-potatoes of You Must Remember This, Schickel's, the gravy…In the end, of course, You Must Remember This…is a big, fat book stuffed with pictures: you couldn't tell the story of Warner Brothers without them. This is a heavy, handsome volume, though with its steel-gray and burnished-gold cover, it's also, fittingly, unostentatious: no need to run out and buy a fancy art deco chrome-and-glass MGM-style coffee table to put underneath it; in true Warner Brothers spirit, it will look just fine on your proletarian Ikea number. The pictures inside don't disappoint, either.
—The New York Times

Stephanie Zacharek

This glorious, oversize volume is a celebration of the 85th anniversary of Warner Bros. Studios. Schickel, writer and producer of the companion PBS miniseries of the same name, and Perry (James Dean) have written a comprehensive history of the studio dating back to 1907 and the captivating stories of its four founding brothers. The authors trace the studio's rise-emphasizing its pivotal role in the development of cinematic art as well as its unique reputation for dealing with the grittier issues of life on-screen-referencing films ranging from the silent era to the groundbreaking talkie, The Jazz Singer, to the consummate studio achievement, Casablanca, to contemporary works. Commentary detailing films' contexts within the industry and their relationships to the larger framework of American culture is accompanied by an exceptional array of photos. There are also in-depth profiles of major stars, Bette Davis, James Cagney, Errol Flynn, and Doris Day, among them. A foreword by Clint Eastwood provides additional dimension to this superbly written and designed book. This is essential not only for film enthusiasts but also for anyone who has ever been enthralled by the silver screen. For circulating libraries and large film collections.
—Carol J. Binkowski

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