Why this filmmaker matters
James B. Clark has 0 titles cut in the Nutevio catalogue.
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Performer
James B. Clark
Editor in the Nutevio catalogue.
- Born
- Unknown
- Active
- 1941–1966
- Known for
- Editor
- Editor · 8
- Director · 2
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Reading James B. Clark
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Signature style
The recognisable elements are rewatchability, visual style, originality. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same eye, re-tuned for different registers. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is staged.
Legacy
Clark set terms other filmmakers now work against: the structures, the pacing and the refusal to explain. Awards bodies have often been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
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Frequent collaborators
Canonical people credited alongside this name across multiple titles.
Alfred Newman
Original Music Composer
3 shared titles · How Green Was My Valley
Frank Tashlin
Director
3 shared titles · The Girl Can't Help It
Leo McCarey
Director
3 shared titles · An Affair to Remember
Cary Grant
Actor
2 shared titles · I Was a Male War Bride
Darryl F. Zanuck
Producer
2 shared titles · How Green Was My Valley
Henry Hathaway
Director
2 shared titles · 23 Paces to Baker Street
Milton Krasner
Director of Photography
2 shared titles · 23 Paces to Baker Street
Leigh Harline
Original Music Composer
2 shared titles · 23 Paces to Baker Street
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Norbert Brodine
Director of Photography
2 shared titles · I Was a Male War Bride
Leon Shamroy
Director of Photography
2 shared titles · The Girl Can't Help It
Nunnally Johnson
Producer
2 shared titles · The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
Samuel Fuller
Director
2 shared titles · Hell and High Water
Genre profile
- Drama5
- Romance3
- Thriller2
- War2
- Comedy2
- Action2
- Mystery1
- Crime1
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Quick facts
- Born
- Unknown
- Active
- 1941–1966
- Titles edited
- 0
- In the Nutevio catalogue
- Known for
- Editor
- cut score
- 6.6
- Nutevio editorial metric
- Collection appearances
- 0
- Across the library
- Films rated 8+
- 0