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• Did the Berlin Wall Really Come Down?

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 483
  The Reds responded to such ridicule with paranoia and increasingly strident attacks, claiming that their opponents were dishonest and morally corrupt. Red governments proclaimed that the moral... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  3 days ago

• Yesterday’s Films, Today’s Issues: Wild River

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 612
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• SCREEN: A Streetcar Named Desire

  
  Southernist — Authority: 123
  Playing 11/6 - 11/12 @ Film Forum .
  1 week ago

• Yesterday’s Films, Today’s Issues: A Face in the Crowd

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 612
  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 . ...
  1 week ago

• Monologue: "He was a boy..."

  
  Film Experience Blog — Authority: 588
  Jose here bringing you the Monday Monologue , this time taken from Elia Kazans 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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Williamstown Film Festival … (with bonus Ephs-in-film update)

  
  EphBlog — Authority: 441
  The Williamstown Film Festival begins today !  Lots of interesting events in the line-up , but this one stands out for me: WFF returns to MASS MoCA on Friday night, October 30th with La Nave de Los Monstruos ( The Ship of Monsters ), a Mexican sci-fi musical in which Venusian women land on Earth in search of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Farewell, Dr. No

  
  Premium Hollywood - Entertainment blog, Hollywood blog, movie blog, TV blog — Authority: 485
  Joseph Wiseman , the very fine Montreal-born character actor who played the first cinematic James Bond supervillain, Dr. Julius No, has passed on at the age of 91. A highly accomplished stage performer, he apparently had little idea he was going to be involved in the launch of a major global phenomenon and didn’t ...
  3 weeks ago

• Short Cuts

  
  The New Republic - Health Care Feed — Authority: 750
  Robert Altman: The Oral Biography By Mitchell Zuckoff (Knopf, 592 pp., $35) Here is your exam question: who is the last American movie director who made thirty-nine films but never won the Oscar for best director? Name the film by that director that cost the most money, and name the film of his that ...
  4 weeks ago

• Kazan at Film Forum: Man on a Tightrope

  
  J.B. Spins — Authority: 427
  By the time Elia Kazan testified before the HUAC Committee, the gist of the Great Purge and Stalin’s forced collectivization policies had been reported in the west. Yet for many in Hollywood, Kazan remains the villain for trying to expose the activities of the Moscow-controlled CPUSA in his chosen field. As a ...
  4 weeks ago

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