Posts Tagged ‘James Dean’
Film Review – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Fame, desperation, the need for strangers to admire you, the search for artistic truth, commerce versus art, the ability for an actor to completely commit to their craft and yet wreak havoc with their personal life, aging, magical realism, being stuck in one’s own head,…
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SIFF Film Review – Joshua Tree, 1951: A Portrait of James Dean
James Dean was strongly rumored to have been gay or at least bi-sexual. Generations of film students have read much into Dean’s relationship with Sal Mineo in Rebel Without a Cause. Along with Marilyn Monroe, James Dean has always been one of the stylish gay…
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