Elia Kazan
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Elia Kazan: A Director’s Journey;
Nichols demonstrates his affinity for the concept of a sustained tradition with a daring stroke here. Having seen Elia Kazan's original 1949 production of Salesman as a youngster, he has re-created two of the key elements that helped give that celebrated achievement its power: Jo Mielziner's set design and Alex North's incidental music.More quotes »
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On the Waterfront
On the waterfront practise essay Elia Kazan’s masterpiece, “On the Waterfront” tells the story of Terry Malloy’s battle between reason and will. At the film’s centre lie’s Terry’s choice between remaining “deaf and dumb” about the corruption lead by John from OpPapers.com Read more »
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On the riverfront
Wild River: Dammed if you do, damned if you don't Directed by Elia Kazan On Wed 5/30, it screens with Kazan's short film People of the Cumberland (1937), which informed the making of Wild River. On the Tennessee branch of the Mississippi, a TVA agent (Mo from Chicago Reader Read more »
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How Does Kazan Convey Ideas About Good and Evil in 'on the Waterfront'?
Elia Kazan's portrayal of good and evil in 'On the Waterfront' is more than it meets the eye. Good and Evil appear in seperate characters and also at different times on the same characters. More importantly, Elia Kazan gets an important message across; N from OpPapers.com Read more »
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Elia Kazan, Audience tomorrow: Preview in New Guinea (Review)
Publicity still, c 1960, from the Elia Kazan Collection of the Cinema Archives at Wesleyan University (Photo credit: Wikipedia) In my previous life I worked in a film library and film archive, so I was drawn to this week’s Library of America offering, “A from Whispering Gums Read more »
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Critics Notebook: Todd McCarthy Reflects on the Film Career of Mike Nichols
Read Mike Nichols' first-hand account of his life and career in the May 18 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Mike Nichols is such a great talker, my first desire after reading The Hollywood Reporter’s current skipping-stone account of his theatri from Hollywood Reporter Read more »
