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Directed by Elia Kazan...
...role is an important one as a Kazan movie is inevitably seen in light of his decision to name names to the House Unamerican Activities Committee (HUAC), the organ for official McCarthyism, particularly as Budd Schulberg, Kazan’s screenwriter on this picture and “On the Waterfront” also acted as a “friendly witness” against alleged Communists. The Matthau character shows the self-hatred at an inability to create a viable third...
...mean that Godard, Bergman, Fellini, they were stretching film form. Adult movies now are adult in content: the equivalent of the Elia Kazan movies...
...Well, I would consider Kazan movies adult. And the movies up for Academy Awards this year, I would consider those adult...
...rest took a little longer--about six weeks--not counting production rewrites. But Elia Kazan, then his best friend, and perhaps always his best director, was correct when he wrote that Miller "didn't write Death of a Salesman; he released it." Not a week has passed since the play premiered on Broadway 56 years ago this month when it was not playing somewhere in the world, playing too on our instinctive response to an instinctive work...