A Man for All Seasons

This feels like something of a throwback, not for today but for the contemporary period in which it was released. A Man for All Seasons feels like the kind of prestige pictures that Hollywood was making mainly in the 1930s, costume dramas centered around great performances that used minimal musical cues. Chop off the edges of the frame to make it Academy ratio and drain the color from the image, and it would look like it too. Based on the play by Robert Bolt, Fred Zinneman won his second Bes...