America, America
One man's struggle to the golden shore
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 48 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 8, 2011
- Originally Released: 1963
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Frank Wolff, Paul Mann, Elena Karam, Stathis Giallelis, Harry Davis, Linda Marsh & Estelle Hemsley | |
| Directed by | Elia Kazan | |
| Screenwriting by | Elia Kazan | |
| Composition by | Manos Hadjidakis | |
| Director of Photography: | Haskell Wexler |
Entertainment Reviews:
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One of the greatest ever immigrant pics.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
AMERICA AMERCIA is unquestionably his most personal work, and a rare case when Kazan wrote his own screenplay.
A.V. Club
[With] fine-grained, agile photography....America itself occupies about five minutes of screen time but it's clear the journey will remain within Kazan's protagonist forever.
Film Comment
America America goes on for three hours, which is too long. The characters are picturesque and predictable.
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Esquire Magazine
... while rich with detail of the life and culture of early 20th Century Turkey, it doesn't flow as much as pool around various episodes on the road of Stavros' education.
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Parallax View
Elia Kazan gives a penetrating, thorough and profoundly affecting account of the hardships endured and surmounted at the turn of the century by a young Greek lad
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Variety
The entire movie benefits from its authenticity, geographical, historical and emotional, and may be seen as one of the peaks of Kazan's career.
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Time Out
Product Description:
Filmmaker Elia Kazan based AMERICA, AMERICA on the early life of his Greek-immigrant uncle. Stavros Topouzoglow is the young immigrant, whose starry-eyed impressions of America are soon compromised by reality. Despite the casual cruelties, betrayals, and career setbacks, Stavros forms strong and lasting friendships which help him weather the worst. An Oscar went to the painstakingly accurate art direction of Gene Callahan. Despite moments that are not suitable for children, AMERICA, AMERICA won a rare "bell-ringer" rating from the high-school oriented Scholastic magazines back in 1963; in the years since, it has become a stalwart of the American Movie Classics cable service.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 22,594
- UPC: 883929158256
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