Strike Up the Band
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
- intimate
Jimmy and Mary get a group of kids together to play in a school orchestra. A huge contest between schools is coming up and they have a hard time raising money to go to Chicago for the contest.
Our read · Strike Up the Band (1940) reads as a cosy, breathless, grounded mgm · garland-rooney · youth entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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