Wild River (Elia Kazan, 1960): a film about statecraft as the articulation of bureaucracy, a matter of public relations and, once we get down to it, persuasion . Lippmann-like technocracy comes up against the mess of implementation. It's an interesting film, to me, for its topic alone; but the treatment, too, is interesting. The surveilled lands, the problem of looking out, the space of a river island...
Two weeks ago, we presented a list of 35 sites where you can watch free movies online. Now, we’ve taken the next step and added 100 high-quality films to our list. Some films are contemporary, but many are classics created by legendary directors, actors & actresses. And they’re frequently made available by the great Internet [...]
Carroll Baker (born May 28, 1931) : Baker began her film career in 1953, with a small part in Easy to Love . After appearing in television commercials and training at New York's Actors Studio, she took a role in the Broadway production of All Summer Long . That appearance brought her to the attention of director Elia Kazan, who cast Baker as the title character in his controversial Baby Doll . Her...
Two weeks ago, I posted a collection of 20 sites where you can watch free movies online. Thanks to your help, the page now features 30 Places to Watch Free Movies Online, and I hope to keep it growing. Below, I have featured five of the new additions, which includes many important classics. Please feel [...]
KOLKATA: Contemporary films that project the problems of our times can help us contemplate how they can be dealt with, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said at the inauguration of the 15th Kolkata Film Festival here on ...
My second film in my Yesterday’s Films, Today’s Issues series is going to be another Elia Kazan film (there was recently a Kazan retro in NYC ). Kazan’s Wild River is a beautiful film starring Lee Remick and Montgomery Clift as a young Tennessee woman named Carol and a government agent named Chuck sent in to get Carol’s grandmother off of her river property so that they can...
Elia Kazan may have led a politically controversial life when he named names for HUAC but many of his films brought to light issues that centered on helping the less fortunate in society and discussing the power of government and media to influence people. One of the those films is 1957’s A Face in The Crowd . A Face in the Crowd tells the story of Lonesome Rhodes (played by the amazing Andy...
francis lederer is a name i have never known before today. all it took was this look at his beautiful face. actress louise brooks is the very famous silent star who is cradling him in her lap. francis came from europe to america where some of the biggest film people including mgm young genius irving thalberg and 'actor's studio' guru elia kazan embraced him. alas, long lasting fame was not in the cards...
I don't know what I was doing when this Matt Zoller Seitz video essay about Elia Kazan 's On The Waterfront went up almost a month ago. The more-or-less conventional view is that the story of Terry Malloy vs. Johnny Friendly is "a rat's fantasy" or "a stoolie's defense." Seitz argues otherwise, or at least that a fairer, more perceptive reading is somewhere in the middle. Kazan's...
A BBC radio anchor was fired in November 2008 for making racist remarks. She called a taxi service to pick up her daughter, and insisted that they not send an Asian driver with a turban as that “would freak out her daughter”. It is true that children, specially babies respond well to face types that [...]
A new show at the Museum of the City of New York has historic waterfront images and contemporary pictures by Diane Cook and Len Jenshel, as Niko Koppel reports.
Jose here bringing you the Monday Monologue , this time taken from Elia Kazan's production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire . "Blanche, can I ask you a question?" says shy Mitch ( Karl Malden ) to Blanche DuBois ( Vivien Leigh ) during one of their dates. She says yes and he proceeds "How old are you?". With this simple question Leigh takes us on a trip down memory,...
The Canadian actor Joseph Wiseman had a long career in which he gave distinguished performances on stage, screen and television, with particular success in roles of deception or villainy. With his gaunt demeanour, narrow eyes and thin lips, he conveyed an air of menace with an unsettling instability, and was rarely to be trusted.
Actor Karl Malden dead at 97 | Karl Malden Gossip Karl Malden, an Oscar- and Emmy-winning actor and former president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, died of natural causes today in Los Angeles at the age of 97.He and his wife, Mona, who survives him, were married for 70 years, which might literally be a show-business record. Read More From Orginal Site
The Oedipal angle in “Tetro” kicks in as soon as Bennie enters Tetro’s apartment, where an image of Robert Mitchum from “The Night of the Hunter” — the words love and hate tattooed on his hands — glowers down from a wall.
Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash Marriage Profile The 35-year marriage of Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash is one of the great love stories of the entertainment industry. The movie Walk the Line is about their being there for one another during the tough times. Here's information on how Johnny and June met, information about their wedding, their children, and more. Read More From Orginal Site
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