Nelson Algren

Nelson Algren

Nacimiento : 1909-03-28, Detroit, Michigan, USA

Muerte : 1981-05-09

Historia

Nelson Ahlgren Abraham was an American writer whose novels of the poor are lifted from routine naturalism by his vision of their pride, humour, and unquenchable yearnings. He also catches with poetic skill the mood of the city’s underside: its jukebox pounding, stench, and neon glare.

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Nelson Algren

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Algren
Self (archive footage)
Algren will spotlight the hard-knock life and authentic creative legacy of one of the most underrated writers of the twentieth century, Nelson Algren. Algren's brutally honest portrayal of the American underclass and his hard-nosed lifestyle became his pathway to compassion. Through interviews with Algren contemporaries, experts, and "literary soulmates," as well as through the photography of Algren's friends, Art Shay and Stephen Deutch, the film will tell his story. It will celebrate his tremendous contribution to and influence on American letters, and push Algren, champion of the marginalized, out from the margins.
Algren
Writer
Algren will spotlight the hard-knock life and authentic creative legacy of one of the most underrated writers of the twentieth century, Nelson Algren. Algren's brutally honest portrayal of the American underclass and his hard-nosed lifestyle became his pathway to compassion. Through interviews with Algren contemporaries, experts, and "literary soulmates," as well as through the photography of Algren's friends, Art Shay and Stephen Deutch, the film will tell his story. It will celebrate his tremendous contribution to and influence on American letters, and push Algren, champion of the marginalized, out from the margins.
Nelson Algren Live
Writer
A performance of some of Nelson Algren's greatest and least known works, performed live at the Steppenwolf theatre in Algren's hometown, Chicago.
Nelson Algren: The End Is Nothing, the Road Is All...
Writer
An in-depth feature length documentary of one of America's greatest and least understood authors, Nelson Algren. This never before told compelling life story reveals a unique literary voice through rare interviews, archival footage and the gritty noirish voice of Algren on Algren. Kurt Vonnegut and Studs Terkel, literary giants in their own right, sing songs of praise along with many of his old friends, which makes this film seem like a hymn from the grave. This stylishly produced film embeds us in the 1950's cold war world when Algren worked. Algren's touching love affair with Simone de Beauvoir weaves it's way through the film along with the damaging impact of FBI and CIA surveillance.
Nelson Algren: The End Is Nothing, the Road Is All...
An in-depth feature length documentary of one of America's greatest and least understood authors, Nelson Algren. This never before told compelling life story reveals a unique literary voice through rare interviews, archival footage and the gritty noirish voice of Algren on Algren. Kurt Vonnegut and Studs Terkel, literary giants in their own right, sing songs of praise along with many of his old friends, which makes this film seem like a hymn from the grave. This stylishly produced film embeds us in the 1950's cold war world when Algren worked. Algren's touching love affair with Simone de Beauvoir weaves it's way through the film along with the damaging impact of FBI and CIA surveillance.
The New Deal for Artists
The Arts Project of the Work Projects Administration (1935-1942) was a USA government agency established to support writers, theater people, painters, sculptors, and photographers.
El intrépido Frank
Needles
Una comedia fantástica con unas pretensiones muy superiores a sus resultados, ya que pretendía infructuosamente esbozar una sátira de su época. El protagonista, convertido en superhéroe después de ser asesinado, encarna supuestamente los valores de la contracultura, pero casi nadie se entera. Demuestra como la torpeza puede malograr las mejores intenciones.
Goldstein
Himself
GOLDSTEIN, the feature film debut of talented director Philip Kaufman (The Right Stuff, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Quills), is an early example of American independent filmmaking from the early 1960s. A fable about an old man with an odd effect on those he encounters, the film is a funny, warm-hearted postcard from an important moment in American cinema.GOLDSTEIN, starring veteran character actor Lou Gilbert (Viva Zapata!, The Great White Hope), shared the Prix de la Nouvelle Critique at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival with Bertolucci’s Before the Revolution. Cinema deity Jean Renoir called the film "the best American film I have seen in 20 years."
La gata negra
Novel
Un hombre busca a su antigua amada y la encuentra en un burdel convertida en amante de una madame lesbiana.
El hombre del brazo de oro
Novel
Frankie Machina, un malhechor adicto al juego y la heroína, interpretado soberbiamente por Frank Sinatra, tras pasar una buena temporada en la cárcel, regresa a su casa en Chicago junto a su mujer, Eleanor Parker, con el firme propósito de dejar atrás su pasado criminal y rehabilitarse de sus adicciones. Pero no le resultará fácil, ya que le estarán esperando sus viejas e indeseables amistades, quienes tratarán por todos los medios, de que regrese a sus antiguos hábitos.