The Conservative Voice Columns (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
How can American Jews align themselves with the pro-Arab, anti-Israel, Muslim-appeasing left? How did this happen? And what does Hollywood have to do with it?
Israelated - English Israel blogs (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
A note from Radarsite: Why do so many Jews vote Democratic? Recently, in response to Gary Fouse's explosive reports on antisemitism at UC Irvine, and some other related articles, this question came up. And it is a good one. Why are so many American Jews so avowedly left-wing, even at the expense of supporting Israel? How can this be? How can American Jews align themselves with the pro-Arab, anti-Israel,...
klephblog (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
atching Elia Kazan's masterpiece On the Waterfront for the first time is to behold a film with which one is already intimately familiar. It's pacing, setting and tone have been copied and referenced so often it is now part of how we conduct discourse about the medium. To put it simply, if you make a crime film you have to respond to the gauntlet thrown down by Kazan and Marlon Brando in 1954. And...
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
News: Fox Home Entertainment have announced the Region 1 DVD release of three Fox Film Noir titles on 2nd September 2008. Priced at $14.98 SRP each and making their R1 DVD debuts are Boomerang, Moontide and Road House. "Beautifully restored and remastered"...
Ari Herzog (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
When asked by politico.com reporter Mike Allen to name his favorite movie, presidential candidate John McCain said Viva Zapata! This 1952 Darryl Zanuck production directed by Elia Kazan and awarded an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor to Anthony Quinn, stars Marlon Brando as Mexican peasant-turned-revoltutionary Emiliano Zapata set in the years leading up to World War I. I'm a film buff and I...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
Actor playing Stanley Kowalski in Intiman's production of "Streetcar" brings method to his madness.
Atlas Shrugs (Free subscription) | 06/29/2008
Panic in the Streets Directed by Elia Kazan. With Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes. A doctor and a policeman in New Orleans have only 48 hours to locate a killer infected with bubonic plague. Spellbinding Click below on "Continue" to view the movie -- I won't run it on the main page. It slows down Atlas ..... and nothing will slow me down baby.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
Like the rest of the world, China is coming to terms with enormous change. In "Up the Yangtze," the specific national trauma happens to...
SoccerLens (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
Until Russia’s lengthy dismantling exercise in Basle on Friday, Holland’s blitz on the proclaimed ‘Group of Death’ had been Euro 2008’s foremost point for exclamation. To English audiences in particular, the proposition of a Dutch rebirth after twenty years of bungled failure was a thrilling and unexpected boon to a competition tainted by the absence [...]
Ain't it Cool News (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
Ahoy, squirts! here with today’s installment of A Movie A Day.[For those now joining us, A Movie A Day is my attempt at filling in gaps in my film knowledge. My DVD collection is thousands strong, many of them films I haven’t seen yet, but picked up as I scoured used DVD stores. Each day I’ll pull a previously unseen film from my collection and discuss it here. Each movie will have some sort of connection...
The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
AMERICA AMERICA By Ethan Canin Random House, 458 pages, $27 AMERICA AMERICA . TERRIBLE TITLE, right? Grandiose and sentimental. (And Elia Kazan got there first.) That’s what I thought, too—but it’s grown on me, and now I see that it’s suitably ambitious for a novel about ambition, suitably redundant for a novel that takes as its twinned themes American capitalism and American politics, and suitably...
Dispatches from Zembla (Free subscription) | 06/15/2008
I saw Elia Kazan's A Face in the Crowd yesterday, a terrific film in every respect. There is absolutely no reason why it should remain unheralded as a genuine American classic, it is every bit as a good as On the Waterfront, in fact in some respect even better as the subject matter - the nexus between politics and pop culture entertainment and the inbuilt potentiality of culture industry for demagoguery...
The WOW Report (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
In this clip, circa 1955, James Dean...
Theodore's World (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
Elia Kazan's brilliant 1957 film: A Face In the Crowd. Andy Griffith's first movie. It was disparaged by the media because they saw how accurately it portrayed them. This is a clip from the film or behind the scenes...
San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 05/25/2008
Give “Cats” some credit: Few other plays or movies have embraced a poem (or series of poems) so extensively. Plenty, though, have taken titles and themes from works of verse.
