Culture Monster (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Like many great playwrights, Tennessee Williams did his stint in Hollywood as a screenwriter and even earned two Oscar nominations for his work. But he also had his share of unproduced projects -- one a screenplay titled "The Loss of...
Filmstalker (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond is a screenplay from Tennessee Williams which was supposed to be the third film for him and director Elia Kazan after A Streetcar Named Desire and Baby Doll, however it was never to be and the screenplay sat unused. Now, over forty years later, the screenplay has been made into a film, with a strong cast too, however the trailer still seems to be stuck in the past. I...
JoBlo (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
This is a rather interesting tale of a lost script written by a famed playwright over forty years ago, a project that is just now seeing the light of day. For those of us young enough to think Tennessee Williams is a brand of whiskey, he's actually a hugely famous writer who penned A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE and BABY DOLL, both of which landed him Oscar nominations. Both were collaborations with director...
Empire News (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Bryce Dallas Howard in 'Diamond' trailer
ComingSoon.net (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Paladin has provided ComingSoon.net with the exclusive trailer for Jodie Markell's film based on the unproduced Tennessee Williams screenplay of The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond , which opens in New York and L.A. on Wednesday, December 30, and in other cities in the new year. The legendary playwright, considered by many to be one of the most significant writers of the latter 20th Century, wrote the screenplay...
Media Matters for America (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
From The New Yorker 's November 23 profile on Glenn Beck: If you sensed something of a quiet spell about ten days ago, a lull in the usual media storm, it may have been owing to the fact that Glenn Beck, the energetically hateful, truth-twisting radio and Fox News Channel talk-show host, was absent from the airwaves for a week, to have his appendix removed. A few days after his surgery, he made it...
The House Next Door (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
By Aaron Cutler Andrew Sarris wrote of Elia Kazan in The American Cinema that “his career as a whole reflects an unending struggle between a stable camera and a jittery one.” Historically that’s more or less been the rap on Kazan—a highly-acclaimed filmmaker with many strong titles, but one whose work was too simultaneously bland and conflicted for the critical establishment...
Elusive Lucidity (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
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...
Open Culture (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
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 [...]
Cinema Blend (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
They do know he already has a real one, right?
<B>Patrick Joubert Conlon</B> (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
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...
Open Culture (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
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 [...]
Hindu (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
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 ...
TakePart Social Action Network™ (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
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...
TakePart Social Action Network™ (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
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...
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