THE half-dozen great or almost-great New York movies Sidney Lumet directed from the late 1950s to the early '80s -- for the sake of argument, let's specify ''12 Angry Men'' (1957), ''The Pawnbroker'' (1964), ''Serpico'' (1973), ''Dog Day Afternoon'' (1975), ''Network'' (1976) and ''Prince of the City'' (1981) -- are hardly period pieces. But...
MARTIN SCORSESE might be the only film buff alive with both the clout and the passion to put together ''The Elia Kazan Collection,'' a boxed set that assembles 15 Kazan films from three distributors. Though 20th Century Fox Home Video is releasing the collection -- Fox controls eight of the films in the set (four of which are appearing on DVD for...
THE arc of the actress and filmmaker Barbara Loden's life was dramatic enough to be a Hollywood movie. She survived a hardscrabble Southern childhood; moved at 16 to New York, where she was a pin-up model and nightclub dancer; then went on to win a Tony award, marry the director Elia Kazan, and in 1970, write, direct and star in her own film -- the...
Elia Kazan (7. september 1909 – 28. september 2003) var en amerikansk teater- og filminstruktør.
Elia Kazancıoğlu blev født i Konstantinopel. Hans familie udvandrede til USA i 1913. Han var medlem af USA's kommunistiske parti i 1934-36. Under McCarthyismens antikommunistiske forfølgelser omkring 1950 blev Kazan indkaldt som vidne for House Un-American Activities Committee, hvor han vidnede mod nogle af sine kolleger i filmbranchen. Dette blev aldrig glemt og tilgivet af alle, så da Kazan i 1999 modtog en æresoscar reagerede mange negativt eller køligt.
Kazan instruere flere skuespil af Tennessee Williams, og senere deres filmversioner.