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W. Franke Harling has 0 scores in the Nutevio catalogue.
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W. Franke Harling has 0 scores in the Nutevio catalogue.
The recognisable elements are visual style, rewatchability, 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.
Harling 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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Adolph Zukor
Producer
3 shared titles · A Farewell to Arms

Gary Cooper
Actor
2 shared titles · A Farewell to Arms

Charles Lang
Director of Photography
2 shared titles · A Farewell to Arms

John Leipold
Original Music Composer
2 shared titles · A Farewell to Arms

Frank Borzage
Director
2 shared titles · A Farewell to Arms

Ernst Lubitsch
Director
2 shared titles · Trouble in Paradise
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