Make Way for McCarey: A Great Director Gets His Due

Seriously Funny: The Films of Leo McCareyJuly 15th-31st at MoMA
Although his name might not be as celebrated today, the film director Leo McCarey was every bit the equal of better-known auteurs such as Frank Borzage, Jean Renoir, and Carl Theodor Dreyer. Like Borzage, he was a born romantic who sought to understand how people (sometimes misguidedly) used love and intimacy to try to protect each other from the dangers of their surrounding world. Like Renoir, he observed them with affection as th