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Free for all : Joe Papp, the public, and the greatest theater story ever told
\"Los Angeles Times\" film critic Kenneth Turan takes you behind the scenes at the Public Theater and tells the amazing story of how Joe Papp made American theatrical and cultural history.
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Not to be Missed
The images and memories that matter most are those that are unshakeable, unforgettable. Kenneth Turan's fifty-four favorite films embrace a century of the world's most satisfying romances and funniest comedies, the most heart-stopping dramas and chilling thrillers. Turan discovered film as a child left undisturbed to watch Million Dollar Movie on WOR-TV Channel 9 in New York, a daily showcase for older Hollywood features. It was then that he developed a love of cinema that never left him and honed his eye for the most acute details and the grandest of scenes. Not to be Missed blends cultural criticism, historical anecdote, and inside-Hollywood controversy. Turan's selection of favorites ranges across all genres. From All About Eve to Seven Samurai to Sherlock Jr., these are all timeless filmsclassic and contemporary, familiar and obscure, with big budgets and smalleach underscoring the truth of director Ingmar Bergman's observation that no form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.\".
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Sundance to Sarajevo
Almost every day of the year a film festival takes place somewhere in the world--from sub-Saharan Africa to the Land of the Midnight Sun.Sundance to Sarajevois a tour of the world's film festivals by an insider whose familiarity with the personalities, places, and culture surrounding the cinema makes him uniquely suited to his role. Kenneth Turan, film critic for theLos Angeles Times,writes about the most unusual as well as the most important film festivals, and the cities in which they occur, with an eye toward the larger picture. His lively narrative emphasizes the cultural, political, and sociological aspects of each event as well as the human stories that influence the various and telling ways the film world and the real world intersect. Of the festivals profiled in detail, Cannes and Sundance are obvious choices as the biggest, brashest, and most influential of the bunch. The others were selected for their ability to open a window onto a wider, more diverse world and cinema's place in it. Sometimes, as with Sarajevo and Havana, film is a vehicle for understanding the international political community's most vexing dilemmas. Sometimes, as with Burkina Faso's FESPACO and Pordenone's Giornate del Cinema Muto, it's a chance to examine the very nature of the cinematic experience. But always the stories in this book show us that film means more and touches deeper chords than anyone might have expected. No other book explores so many different festivals in such detail or provides a context beyond the merely cinematic.
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Never Coming to a Theater Near You
The LOS ANGELES TIMES and NPR \"Morning Edition\" film critic profiles the most intelligent, original, and enjoyable movies you may not have seen yet--and illuminates what makes them so good.
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Genre Bender
Speed may kill, but action, filmed action, is the real drug. Like many narcotics, it is a special taste, and one that is a little suspect in some circles. Film should enlighten and uplift the race, the spoilsports say. And if all that high-mindedness brings with it more than its fair share of snores, it’s a small price to pay for the putative benefits of culture. As Gene Kelly says mockingly in Singin’ in the Rain, “Dignity, always dignity.”
Action junkies have a different, more operatic motto: a direct steal, in fact, from Puccini’s Turandot: “Nessun dorma,” they insist, “Nobody
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Alexander Payne
Kenneth Turan: We’re at the Walker Art Center for a Regis Dialogue with filmmaker Alexander Payne. We’re going to be discussing his artistic vision, his sense of humor, and his love of film. Alexander Payne’s films, characterized by his ability to bring emotional reality to drop-dead funny comedies, manage to be achingly true to life while dealing with seriously out-of-control situations. Even the setting of most of them, Payne’s quintessentially all-American home town of Omaha, Nebraska, emphasizes the notion that these people could well be anyone’s friends and neighbors, maybe even yours.
Well, I wanted to start at the beginning;
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