Topic: Dalton Trumbo

Writers Guild restores credit to blacklisted writer

(Reuters) - Blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo, who penned the screenplay for the classic film "Roman Holiday," had his credit restored by a Hollywood writers group on Monday, reversing history 58 years after the movie's release.Trumbo, the writer behind the original story ...

Lauded for speaking his mind

0 View Larger Image . "Do I talk too much?" asks Kirk Douglas on a couch in an open, book-lined room. "When I have to do a movie, because of my...

Kirk Douglas to receive honor at SF festival

0 . Kirk Douglas, the cleft-chinned actor whose prolific career includes more than 85 films, will receive the Freedom of Expression Award at San...

'The Prowler' review: Joseph Losey's sultry noir

0 View Larger Image . . . Film fans who know of Joseph Losey almost certainly associate him with his great art-house career with Harold Pinter in...
Two of the best known are Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got his Gun and Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front. Trumbo and Remarque, however, attack war by showing both its horror and its pathos. Trumbo's book was ...

Must-See Documentaries of 2008

This is an extremely important must-see film!Gonzo - The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. ThompsonBad boy journalist Dr. Hunter S. Thompson -- equally famous for his railings against the Nixon administration in the pages of Rolling Stone and his well-chronicled personal ...

Future Creep

It's blast-from-the-past With the Catalyst Theater folk reviving their 2004 take on a dystopian classic from the late 1940s, Rep Stage using 50-year-old letters to do homage to a McCarthy-era hero, and the good folks at Open Circle Theatre digging for ...