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Elia Kazan: A Director's Journey

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Elia Kazan: A Director's Journey

This was on the DVD with A Streetcar Named Desire.  It has a review of all of the movies in Kazan's film career along with commentary from the director himself.

I'm not highly attracted to Kazan's strict sense of what is necessary for theatre or film.  He likes to boil things down.  He wants to be able to describe a character in one sentence and for that character to have a single motivation.  Not that this isn't an extremely helpful technique, but the fact that he is stuck to it keeps him limited to certain kinds of stories and characters.

A decent documentary if you are interested in the man and his works.

Rating: 7/10

posted on Thursday, February 28, 2008 2:18 PM by Risselada


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