Variety.com (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
Film News: Ben McKenzie to star in play adaptation -- Greenwood Hill Prods. has signed with Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban's Truly Indie self-distribution company to release its first feature film, "Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun."
KillerMovies (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
Ben McKenzie ("The O.C.") will be hitting U.S. cinemas this fall in "Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun," the film version of his one-man stage show. Truly Indie will release Rowan Joseph's anti-war drama, the portrait of a World War I soldier with battlefield injuries that leave him trapped in his own body, unable to communicate with others..
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
Fifty years from now, the life and times of some famous current author will be understood through a canny collection of the writer's e-mail. Slim chance that those missives will be as dashing as the long, witty letters of Dalton Trumbo, the Oscar-winning screenwriter who was blacklisted for more...
Pajiba (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
The One Where I Finally Lose My Mind The Daily Trade Round-Up / Daniel Carlson...
Entertainment News - MovieWeb.com (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
Rowan Jospeh's anti-war drama will hit theaters in the fall.
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
Noting the local release of the hagiographic documentary Trumbo , DCist writes that while he may "not necessarily [be] a household name when it comes to American patriots, novelist and screenwriter Dalton Trumbo earned the title." Oh brother. Perhaps the commenters can debate what it means to be "a patriot," but I suspect that we can all agree that shilling for Joseph Stalin isn't a necessary qualification....
DCist (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
DCist's highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Trumbo While not necessarily a household name when it comes to American patriots, novelist and screenwriter Dalton Trumbo earned the title. Caught squarely in the House Un-American Activities Committee's crosshairs during the early days of the red scare, Trumbo was one of...
Phawker (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
TRUMBO (2007, directed by Peter Askin, 96 minutes, U.S.) BY DAN BUSKIRK FILM CRITIC When Elia Kazan won his honorary Oscar back in 1999 there were some who voiced surprise that Sean Penn (among others) refused to applaud for the eighty-nine year old director. If one needs to understand why someone could be holding a grudge [...]
Fresh Bilge (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
Ever heard of Dalton Trumbo? The mists of history have covered him from public view, but many academic and Hollywood “liberals” still admire the American Stalinist. I have known several Trumbo-trumpeters, and I pity the intellectual dyslexia that misleads decent, freedlom-loving Americans into such pernicious affiliations.
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
An ardent agnostic, screenwriter Dalton Trumbo was not a Ten Commandments kind of guy. He was devout about the Ten Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, most especially the first in that Bill of Rights, with its guarantee of free speech.
New York Post (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
WHEN Communist screen writer Dalton Trumbo wrote a novel about Andrew Jackson in 1941, Time wrote, "General Jackson's opinions need surprise no one who has observed George Washington and Abraham Lincoln zealously following the Communist Party Line...
Wheat & Weeds (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008
From Fresh Meat , the blog of The Ryskind Sketchbook A couple of weeks ago I showed you 76 Trumbos , making light of Hollywood's preoccupation with the Hollywood blacklist. Certainly First Amendment rights must be defended, but in the latest iteration, Trumbo , Hollywood's finest stand with a man who wanted Hitler to defeat England and was not only not a stalwart defender of the First Amendment, he...
Savetheoc (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Ben McKenzie makes a rare public appearance and attends the season two premiere of AMC’s hit series Mad Men at the Egyptian theater on Monday in Los Angeles. The former O.C. actor, who turns 30 in September, is set to star in a film version of Dalton Trumbo’s 1938 novel Johnny Got His Gun. Source: Justjared.com [...]
Turkish daily news (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
It's a clever approach to a complicated man. Dalton Trumbo's words -- thunderous, eloquent, ribald and sometimes even tender -- provide the spine and substance of the documentary "Trumbo,"
Ed Driscoll.com (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Christian Toto, who appeared yesterday on PJM Political, reviews Trumbo for Pajamas Media, "the new crockumentary", as the Drunkablog accurately dubs it, on blacklisted "Hollywood Ten" writer Dalton Trumbo, while quoting from Ronald Radosh: There is a lengthy sequence in...
