Red Hollywood
Red Hollywood
Special guests: Introduction by film historian and critic Ed Rampell. Post-screening conversation with director Thom Andersen, moderated by Ed Rampell.
Filmmaker Thom Andersen and American expat film theorist Noël Burch draw from more than fifty features to weave together a portrait of the films from the filmmakers targeted by the House Un-American Activities Committee. Through new interviews with Paul Jarrico, Ring Lardner, Jr., Alfred Levitt, Abraham Polonsky, and others, Red Hollywood reveals how these left-leaning moviemakers were responsible for the studio system’s most unvarnished portraits of 20th-century history from the Depression through World War II and the Holocaust.
DIRECTED/WRITTEN BY: Thom Andersen, Noël Burch. 1996. 113 min. USA. B&W, Color. English. DCP. New DCP, courtesy of Cinema Guild.
Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.
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