Check out all of the posts tagged with "tenement".
Joan Fontaine stars in 1946 drama film From This Day Forward, a work of the postwar left wing. The film might be optimistic but soon director John Berry and screenwriter Hugo Butler were Hollywood blacklist […]
Writer-director René Clair’s first sound film, the 1930 Sous les Toits de Paris [Under the Roofs of Paris], is a nostalgic tale set in Paris about two men, the street singer Albert (Albert Préjean) and […]
Director Elia Kazan’s warm, meticulous, fully-realised and believable 1945 movie re-creation of life in working-class Brooklyn in the early 1900s before World War One is based on Betty Smith’s novel. It centres on one Irish […]
Writer/ co-producer/ director Guy Green’s 1965 racially-charged weepie drama is well meaning, conscientiously done and appealing. It was significant at the time in its exploration of racism against the backdrop of the growing US civil […]
Hal Ashby makes his debut as film director with this intriguingly oddball 1970 satirical comedy drama with a touch of romance. It stars Beau Bridges as Elgar Enders, a rich young man at the age […]
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