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FLIX PIX (1290): “The American Dreams Shrivels like A RAISIN IN THE SUN”

Posted on June 11, 2024 by KPKeelan

A RAISIN IN THE SUN (directed by Daniel Petrie, 1961) ***** (out of 5) . > Langston Hughes wrote a poem called “Harlem”, in which he asks: “What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in … Continue reading →

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KPK on the CINEMA (135) “The Films of May 2023”

Posted on June 15, 2023 by KPKeelan

. > With the impacts of the righteous writer’s strike hitting me first and hardest with the pause in my habitual late night yuks (Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Daily Show, John Oliver, Bill Maher, SNL), I have had a good deal … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged 9 to 5, A Man Called Otto, A Raisin in the Sun, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, adventure, aliens, American history, ancient Rome, Ann Sheridan, arts, Atlantis: The Lost Continent, B-movies, Bernard Miles, biography, Boys Night Out, British cinema, Cary Grant, charity, Charles Laughton, Charlton Heston, cinema, classics, Claudia McNeil, Colin Higgins, comedy, coming of age, corruption, couples, criticism, Dabney Coleman, David Lean, desire, disasters, discrimination, docudrama, Dolly Parton, drama, Edward Platt, entertainment, epics, espionage, families, fantasy, farce, feminism, films, Five Million Years to Earth, fraud, Gary Cooper, gender roles, George Pal, Ginger Rogers, gladiators, Good Sam, government, HBO, history, honor, horror films, Howard Duff, Howard Morris, humor, ideas, In Which We Serve, inequity, intelligence leaks, James Cromwell, James Garner, Jane Fonda, Jean Simmons, Joe Dante, John Dall, John Gavin, John Goodman, John Mills, Julius Caesar, justice, Kathleen Turner, Kevin Keelan, Kim Novak, kindness, Kirk Douglas, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, labor, Laurence Olivier, legend, Leo McCarey, Lily Tomlin, Lorraine Hansberry, Marc Forster, marriage, Matinee, money, movies, national security, Nazis, Noel Coward, Once Upon a Honeymoon, opinion, patriotism, persecution, Peter Ustinov, power, propaganda, race, racism, Raymond Massey, reality, Reality Winner, relationships, remakes, revenge, reviews, Richard Harris, Rob Reiner, romance, Ruth Gordon, sacrifice, sailors, satire, sci-fi, science fiction, seamen, sex, sexism, Sidney Poitier, slavery, Spartacus, spies, Stanley Kubrick, Steve Martin, Sydney Sweeney, the American dream, the Civil War, The Man With Two Brains, The Wreck of the Mary Deare, thrillers, Tom Hanks, Tony Curtis, Tony Randall, violence, whistleblowers, Woody Strode, workers, World War II | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (116): The Films of October 2021

Posted on December 3, 2021 by KPKeelan

. > This month we get a serving of silent German expressionism from Fritz Lang, an effervescent modern musical from Lin-Manuel Miranda, a handsome American period piece from George Clooney, an early schlock film from Francis Coppola, one of the … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged action, Adam Driver, American history, Anthony Ramos, Arthur Kennedy, arts, B-movies, Barry Fitzgerald, betrayal, biography, Black Girl, boxing films, British cinema, brothers, Bruce Dern, Bruno Ganz, Burt Lancaster, cargo cults, Champion, change, cinema, Colin Firth, colonialism, comedy, commitment, Communism, corruption, crime, criminal masterminds, criticism, dancing, David McCallum, David Strathairn, Dean Stockwell, death, dementia, Dementia 13, demonization, Dennis Hopper, detectives, drama, dreams, economics, Edward R. Murrow, emigration, England, English cinema, entertainment, ethnicity, experimental films, exploitation, fighters, film noir, filmmaking, films, France, Francis Ford Coppola, Frank Langella, Freud, Fritz Lang, gay couples, genius, George Clooney, German cinema, Good Night and Good Luck, growth, Henry Jaglom, hopes, horror, horses, House Un-American Activities Committee, Howard Duff, HUAC, hypnosis, hysteria, I Walk Alone, ideas, illness, immigrants, imperialism, In the Heights, incarceration, inmates, insanity, Ireland, Jeff Daniels, Jimmy Smits, John Huston, Jonathan Pryce, Joseph McCarthy, journalism, justice, Kevin Keelan, Kirk Douglas, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, labor, life, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Lizabeth Scott, love, madness, Marc Anthony, Matthias Schoenaerts, medicine, memory loss, mental illness, metafiction, Michelle Phillips, Miguel de Cervantes, Montgomery Clift, movies, murder, musicals, mystery, neighborhoods, New York, opinion, Patricia Clarkson, Patrick Magee, people, Peru, Peter Fonda, police procedural, politics, prisoners, psychological drama, racism, Ray Wise, reform, rehabilitation, relationships, revenge, reviews, Robert Downey Jr., romance, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Russ Tamblyn, Samuel Fuller, Sancho Panza, Senegal, Senegalese cinema, Sigmund Freud, silent films, singing, slasher films, Spain, spies, Stanley Tucci, Stellan Skarsgård, Supernova, Susannah York, television, Terry Gilliam, the American dream, The American Friend, The Last Movie, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, The Mustang, The Naked City, The Secret Passion, therapy, thrillers, Toni Basil, tragedy, villains, violence, Washington Heights, Wim Wenders | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: the American dream

FLIX PIX (1290): “The American Dreams Shrivels like A RAISIN IN THE SUN”

KPK on the CINEMA (135) “The Films of May 2023”

KPK on the CINEMA (116): The Films of October 2021

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