Cradle Will Rock
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Movie Reviews of Cradle Will Rock
Movie Review: Wait for it....
Summary: 4 Stars
From a seemingly muddled mess of subplots and characters, comes a great story of the Federal Theatre Project. Set during the 1930's and the Great Depression, Tim Robbins tells a story of poverty, Communism,unions and artistic integrity. Most of the characters and stories are accurate for the time, but there are some liberties taken, after all it is historical fiction. You may not find an affinity for one particular character but you will get behind their cause. While the different story lines seem disconnected they all wrap up in a nice neat bundle in end, you just have to wait for it, and it is well worth it.Movie Review: Drawn to this movie
Summary: 4 Stars
I think Leonard Maltin said it well when he complimented Tim Robbins for his fascinating patchwork of characters. For all its faults, and there are a few, I'm drawn to Cradle Will Rock. It's the only movie that could have used footnotes. It would be nice to know that Marc Blitzstein's dead wife, the woman with whose ghost he converses, had anorexia. Or, that Susan Sarandon portrays the real-life mistress of Mussolini. If you're like me, the movie could lead you to further research on the Federal Theater Project. If, then, you'd call Cradle Will Rock thought-provoking, you might be right.Movie Review: Fascism, Capitalism, Communism, Unionism...
Summary: 4 Stars
Tim Robbins' thought provoking look at the collision of art and politics in depression era America. Orson Welles tries to stage a play on the ills of greedy capitalism (with government funding!), while Diego Rivera turns his Rockefeller Center commisioned mural into a Communist Party poster, fascist Italy sends Sarandon to pay off the the wealthy Americans, labor unions forbid their actors to appear in a play because it's too liberal... It's complex and cerebral as well as funny, an ambitious project and a surprising achievement for Robbins.Movie Review: Brilliant!
Summary: 4 Stars
Though this film has an obviously ultra liberal slant and and appears much of the time to be a confusing hodge-podge (or at best a collage) of events, still it is undoubtedly brilliantly scripted, directed, acted and edited. Other reviews here adequately examine the historical background. As pure entertainment, it is not perfect but it surely excels nonetheless. My political leaning is conservative, but I can recognize and applaud a good film when I see one!
Highly recommended!
Movie Review: pretty good
Summary: 4 Stars
it was well acted and well directed, but in the end the only reason i don't give it five stars is because i just didn't feel the strength of their rebellion by doing the play at the end. i thought the social commentary was great and we could use more shows that attack society or look at society critically.