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Agee: Directed by Ross Spears. With James Agee, Mia Agee, Mae Burroughs, Jimmy Carter. Agee is the only film biography of a major American writer to be nominated for and Academy Award.
James Rufus Agee (/ ˈeɪdʒiː / AY-jee; November 27, 1909 – May 16, 1955) was an American novelist, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic. In the 1940s, writing for Time, he was one of the most influential film critics in the United States.
Agee is the only film biography of a major American writer to be nominated for and Academy Award. Ever. Agee is the story of James Agee, one of the most talented writers of our time. A quintessentially American writer, James Agee was driven by passions for work, friends, films, and ideas.
Agee película dirigida por Ross Spears y protagonizada por James Agee, Mia Agee y Mae Burroughs. Año: 1980. Sinopsis: Agee es la única biografía cinematográfica de un importante escritor estadounidense nominada a un premio de la Academia.
7 de mar. de 2000 · Agee took film seriously as a cultural experience, a molder of public opinion, a tool that might be useful or dangerous. Just how much he differs from mainstream reviewers who regarded the movies primarily as entertainment can be seen in the two different sets of reviews in this book.
In addition to reviewing films, Agee was also a groundbreaking screenwriter, adapting Davis Grubb’s novel The Night of the Hunter into the vividly creepy 1955 movie of the same name, and also helping to adapt C. S. Forester’s novel The African Queen into the 1951 film classic.
The work collected in Agee on Film offers a veritable jungle, a cross-hatched reticulation of values for those capable of disentangling them. Here is a highly endowed individual busy evaluating American life as it came at him through a medium and had to be refracted through an institution.
