Elia Kazan

Celebrating 100 Years of Columbia Pictures with an Iconic Film from Each Decade

PUBLISHED Feb 22, 2024

From the earliest days of studio founders Joe Brandt and brothers Harry and Jack Cohn working the sidelines to becoming one of the major...

A Streetcar Named Desire

Elia Kazan

PUBLISHED May 8, 2012

As an exercise in research, I read some of the original reviews for A Streetcar Named Desire, both the 1951 film and the original Broadway...

Boomerang

Elia Kazan

PUBLISHED Sep 8, 2008

When is a liberal movie not a liberal movie? When it’s so tied to the concepts of "common” values that it looks like a 12-year-old keener o...

Pinky

Elia Kazan

PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2005

Pinky stands as an example of a long-lost genre: the "passing" melodrama, in which a white-looking black woman passes for white. Unfortunat...