Some critics have noted the King Vidor inflection points, from both the Golden Age auteur’s studio-butchered An American Romance (1944), an immigrant-rising saga, and of course The Fountainhead (1949), as maniacally architecture-focused as any movie made anywhere.
Michael Atkinson, R.C. Baker, Paul Berman, Scott L. Malcomson, Laura Bell, Mark Stefanos, Geoffrey O'Brien•The Village Voice•Dec 18, 2024