Kenneth Turan: Lifetime of Film (6/23/2014)




Commonwealth Club of California Podcast show

Summary: Kenneth Turan, Film Critic, LA Times and NPR’s "Morning Edition"; Author, Not to be Missed: Fifty-Four Favorites from a Lifetime of Film Brian Hackney, Reporter, KPIX TV – Moderator Turan’s favorite films span a century of the world’s most satisfying romances and funniest comedies, the most heart-stopping dramas and chilling thrillers from All About Eve to Seven Samurai to Sherlock Jr. Come hear about these timeless films – classic and contemporary, familiar and obscure, with budgets big and small – and judge for yourself the truth of director Ingmar Bergman’s observation that “no form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.” This program was recorded at The Commonwealth Club of California on June 23, 2014