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Jan 21, 2000 · Cradle Will Rock: Directed by Tim Robbins. With Hank Azaria, Rubén Blades, Joan Cusack, John Cusack. A true story of politics and art in the 1930s U.S., focusing on a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production.
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- Tim Robbins
- 2000-01-21
Cradle Will Rock is a 1999 American historical drama film written, produced and directed by Tim Robbins.The story fictionalizes the true events that surrounded the development of the 1937 musical The Cradle Will Rock by Marc Blitzstein; it adapts history to create an account of the original production, bringing in other stories of the time to produce a social commentary on the role of art and ...
Dec 24, 1999 · Tim Robbins' sweeping, ambitious film "Cradle Will Rock" is a chronicle of that time, knitting together stories and characters both real and fictional, in a way similar to John Dos Passos' novel USA. It tells the story of the production of Marc Blitzstein's class-conscious musical "The Cradle Will Rock"; its opening has been called the most ...
Tim Robbins has created a masterpiece. A film that stands up in the face of adversity and squashed freedom.Robbin's telling of the legendary events surrounding the Orson Welles production of Marc Blitztien's Labor Opers, THE CRADLE WILL ROCK, not only puts forth the events but he masterfully presents his film in the style of a Brecht theatre piece.
May 24, 1999 · Erring mainly in its occasional tendency toward caricature, this is Tim Robbins' ambitious attempt to make his own "Reds," a deeply felt homage to a time when artistic activity was driven by ...
As labor strikes break out throughout the country, New York is alive with cultural revolution. Nelson Rockefeller (John Cusack) commissions Mexican artist Diego Rivera (Ruben Blades) to paint the ...
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Review by Stephen M ★★ 2. This really disappointed me because the story of Marc Blitzstein’s “The Cradle Will Rock”, the 1937 Federal Theater Project pro-union opera about corporate greed and corruption that was shut down by the government before it opened, is a fascinating story and needs to be told. But Tim Robbins overreaches ...
