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Elia Kazan’s “The Arrangement” is one of those long, ponderous, star-filled “serious” films that were popular in the 1950s, before we began to value style more highly than the director’s good intentions. It isn’t successful, particularly not on Kazan’s terms (he sees it, doubtless, as a bitter sermon on the consequences of ...
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Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 1, 2007. Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times. TOP CRITIC. The movie finally pounds at our moral sense so much that our moral sense wearies and becomes defensive ...
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The career trajectory of Elia Kazan is such that any of its diverging (and often reconnecting) artistic paths would warrant attention in their own right. He was first an actor, then stage director, then filmmaker and novelist, often embarking on several of these endeavours simultaneously. What is more, Kazan was lauded for his contributions in all ...
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn(1945)The Sea of Grass(1947)Boomerang!(1947)Gentleman’s Agreement(1947)Dombrowski, Lisa, ed. Kazan Revisited. (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2011.) Kazan, Elia, A Life. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988.) Schickel, Richard, Elia Kazan: A Biography. (New York: Harper Perennial, 2005.) Young, Jeff, Kazan: The Master Director Discusses His Films. (New York: Newmarket Press, 1999.)
East of Eden by Terry Ballard http://sensesofcinema.com/2001/feature-articles/eden/ A Face in the Crowd by Thomas Beltzer http://sensesofcinema.com/2004/cteq/face_in_the_crowd/ Panic in the Streets by Adrian Danks http://sensesofcinema.com/2000/feature-articles/panic/ “People are waiting”: Elia Kazan and America America by Adrian Danks http://sense...
Sep 16, 2011 · A recent viewing of Elia Kazan’s largely forgotten 1969 drama The Arrangement had me wavering between fanboyish reappraisal and head-slapping censure as it oscillated from courageous to ...
The Arrangement is a 1969 American drama film directed by Elia Kazan, based upon his 1967 novel of the same title. It tells the story of Evangelos Topouzoglou, a successful Los Angeles -area advertising executive of Greek-American extraction who goes by the professional name "Eddie Anderson” (his second pseudonym).
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The Arrangement. Directed by: Elia Kazan. Starring: Kirk Douglas, Faye Dunaway, Deborah Kerr, Richard Boone. Genres: Drama, New Hollywood. Rated the #103 best film of 1969, and #7490 in the greatest all-time movies (according to RYM users).
