Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Red Hollywood (2014)

Director: Thom Andersen, Noël Burch
Run time:  90 min.
Call number: PN1993.5.U65 R43 2014

“'Red Hollywood” may suggest the rivers of blood that flood our screens. But the red in the title of this fascinating essay like movie refers to the home-front Communists and other American radicals — actual and accused — who once upon a Hollywood time made socially conscious movies that took on the world and its woes."

Manohla Dargis, New York Times (Full review here)