Directors Archives

Directed by Elia Kazan

Because of his naming names at the HUAC, what you think of Elia Kazan’s oeuvre depends on whether you can separate the artist from the art.

All twenty JLM films rated to coincide with a retrospective at the Criterion Collection. This includes his masterpiece “All About Eve”.

Why did a great director make so many bad movies? How could the man who made “Dog Day Afternoon” make 24 unwatchable films?

One masterpiece (“Taxi Driver”). Seven near masterpieces including “Raging Bull”, “Innocence” and “Irishman”. Let’s hope he never stops.

Although Charles Laughton made only one and, therefore, final film, on the basis of this film alone, he is of of the Great Directors.