Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe joined forces on the problem-plagued The Misfits. See also: The playwright’s answer to On the Waterfront.
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Visions of the shattered American Dream in 2 ‘Arthur Miller movies’: The subversive family dramas All My Sons and Death of a Salesman.
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The Poseidon Adventure actress Carol Lynley should also be remembered for a landmark teen pregnancy drama and for a first-rate British thriller.
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Detroit movie (2017) review: Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal’s skillfull and well-intentioned docudrama is unsatisfying as both cinema and history.
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Money Monster (2016) movie review: Jodie Foster thriller is marred by a phony social conscience, but George Clooney and Julia Roberts are stellar.
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Chi-Raq (2015) movie review: Spike Lee effectively provides a 21st-century setting to Aristophanes’ 2,400-year-old play. Teyonah Parris is Lysistrata.
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Lord Montagu (2013) movie review: Real-life victim of British anti-gay bigotry went on to become a successful businessman and popular jet-setter.
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Jean Arthur Films: 3 Frank Capra Classics Starring Progressive-Minded Actress that was 1 of the greatest performers during the studio era.
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Selma (2014) movie review: Ava DuVernay’s ‘Martin Luther King Jr. in Alabama’ drama is a reminder that Civil Rights events remain disturbingly relevant.
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Song of the Fishermen (1934) movie review: Cai Chusheng drama depicts the dehumanizing results of China’s stratified class system.
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Apartheid Movies: Focus on White South Africans criticized in films (usually made by/with British and American talent) such as A World Apart and Cry Freedom.
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Nelson Mandela Movies: South African guerrilla fighter turned political prisoner turned president portrayed reverentially by American or British actors.
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Una Noche (2012) movie review: Lucy Mulloy proves herself a capable screenwriter-director with this mostly Havana-set refugee drama.
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The East (2013) movie review: Zal Batmanglij and Brit Marling’s thriller suffers from an overabundance of self-importance that derails its message.
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Antiviral (2012) movie review: Brandon Cronenberg’s debut feature is too emotionally detached for its own good. Caleb Landry Jones + Sarah Gadon star.
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A Face in the Crowd (1957) movie review: A hammy Andy Griffith and a didactic Budd Schulberg hinder Elia Kazan’s political drama with Patricia Neal.
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Paul Winfield, the canine Sounder, Kevin Hooks, Sounder Sounder probably features more extremely wide shots than any movie besides Lawrence of Arabia – and Martin Ritt’s movie is only half…
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Fade Out Fade In: Flaring racial tensions and decaying Hollywood Mansions + right-wing pro-war propaganda with iconic all-American hero.
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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps box office: Michael Douglas and Shia LaBeouf star in Oliver Stone’s underperforming sequel to his 1987 film.
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Hold Back the Dawn (1941) movie review: Mitchell Leisen’s romantic melodrama is a solid Olivia de Havilland showcase. Charles Boyer and Paulette Goddard costar.
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Tokyo Sonata (2008) movie review: Kiyoshi Kurosawa exposes the unraveling of Japan’s traditional social fabric in this capably acted urban drama.
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Sold for Marriage: Remarkably modern early silent film Though all but completely forgotten today, Christy Cabanne (at times billed as William Christy Cabanne) was a respected name in the 1910s…
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America the Beautiful (2007) movie review: Overextended documentary tackles the reasons for American women’s obsession with physical beauty.
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The Aerial (2007) Movie Review: Esteban Sapir’s black-and-white, near-silent morality fantasy is both daringly innovative and lovingly nostalgic.
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Leatherheads (2008) movie review: George Clooney sports comedy offers a mix of romance and sociopolitical commentary. Renée Zellweger costars.
Mothers of Men (1917) movie review: Remarkable women’s suffrage tale asks whether the female right to vote would destroy American society.
Teresa Wright in ‘The Best Years of Our Lives’: Mammoth Blockbuster was Career Highlight as stardom slipped shortly afterwards.
European Colonialism in Sub-Saharan Africa legacy range from apartheid films to Neill Blomkamp’s sleeper hit District 9 + Something of Value.
Elysium (2013) movie review: Matt Damon is turned into a conventional superhero in Neill Blomkamp’s well-intentioned but uneven dystopian drama.
Monster’s Ball 2001 with Halle Berry, Billy Bob Thornton. This brief piece is an amalgam of two comments posted in response to Alt Film Guide’s Monster’s Ball review written by…
Black Rain. Animego’s DVD release of Shohei Imamura’s Black Rain includes as a bonus feature a selection of World War II-era anti-Japanese propaganda films. Sponsored by various U.S. government bureaucracies,…
Griffith Cinema: Abraham Lincoln Biopic and the dangers of alcoholism + climactic ice-floe river rescue honoring father of American film.
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