Monthly Archives: July 2020

https://youtube.com/watch?v=QOLHbQjtSFs%3Fversion%3D3%26rel%3D1%26fs%3D1%26autohide%3D2%26showsearch%3D0%26showinfo%3D1%26iv_load_policy%3D1%26wmode%3Dtransparent Today, as part of our “Kazan Redux” series, we’re going to re-review director Elia Kazan’s tenth and finest film, “On the Waterfront.” It was a pleasure, as always, to re-watch this landmark film for this redux series. The review … Continue reading →

https://youtube.com/watch?v=zO0GWuwP_Jg%3Fversion%3D3%26rel%3D1%26fs%3D1%26autohide%3D2%26showsearch%3D0%26showinfo%3D1%26iv_load_policy%3D1%26wmode%3Dtransparent Today, as part of our “Kazan Redux” series, we’re going to re-review director Elia Kazan’s eleventh film, “East of Eden.” The review below was first posted on April 11, 2017 and has been slightly revised. East of Eden Directed … Continue reading →

https://youtube.com/watch?v=FVDecBMyyZI%3Fversion%3D3%26rel%3D1%26fs%3D1%26autohide%3D2%26showsearch%3D0%26showinfo%3D1%26iv_load_policy%3D1%26wmode%3Dtransparent Today, as part of our “Kazan Redux” series, we’re going to re-review director Elia Kazan’s seventh film, “A Streetcar Named Desire.” As I re-watched “Streetcar” for this post, I thought about how viewers have been ambivalently fascinated and repulsed … Continue reading →

Title – On the Waterfront (1954) Director – Elia Kazan (East of Eden) Cast – Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger Plot – Once a contender to be a prized fighter, dock worker Terry … Continue reading →

https://youtube.com/watch?v=vszcmrgGLBQ%3Fversion%3D3%26rel%3D1%26fs%3D1%26autohide%3D2%26showsearch%3D0%26showinfo%3D1%26iv_load_policy%3D1%26wmode%3Dtransparent 96 years ago today, Marlon Brando was born in Omaha, Nebraska. Unfortunately, Brando is one of those actors who, later in his life, became better known for his eccentricities than for his performances. Though Brando never stopped being a … Continue reading →

https://youtube.com/watch?v=FVDecBMyyZI%3Fversion%3D3%26rel%3D1%26fs%3D1%26autohide%3D2%26showsearch%3D0%26showinfo%3D1%26iv_load_policy%3D1%26wmode%3Dtransparent The following is my contribution to The 2020 Classic Literature on Film Blogathon, being hosted by Paul at the blog Silver Screen Classics from Apr. 3-5, 2020. Click on the above banner, and read bloggers’ critiques of movies derived … Continue reading →

https://youtube.com/watch?v=WNWxtr3is6k%3Fversion%3D3%26rel%3D1%26fs%3D1%26autohide%3D2%26showsearch%3D0%26showinfo%3D1%26iv_load_policy%3D1%26wmode%3Dtransparent “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” —Martin Luther King (Rephrasing a 1853 sermon by abolitionist minister Theodore Parker.) Over the weekend I saw the screenwriter Paul Schrader posted on his YouTube page … Continue reading →

Josh Gad didn’t need a time-traveling DeLorean to get the cast of “Back to the Future” back together for his YouTube series, “Reunited Apart.” The reunion was done to raise money for Project HOPE. For the second episode of his … Continue reading →

We can all agree that “Jaws” is unquestionably the best 4th of July horror film of all time. If you have the means, go and rewatch “Jaws” right now (even if you’re seeing this post nowhere near the holiday weekend). … Continue reading →

Back to the Future is a 1985 American science fiction adventure comedy film. It is directed by Robert Zemeckis, written by Zemeckis and Bob Gale, produced by Steven Spielberg, and stars Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover … Continue reading →