Neil Clark on our disgraceful prejudice against the Visegrad Four - all countries more civilised than Britain RACISM is on the march in Western Europe. I refer not to increases in the number of racial attacks in British inner cities, nor to the...

Boston bands are on another hot streak. The latest to push open the door to the bigtime is East of Eden. The band's first gig was at the New Music Seminar two years ago in New York, where label scouts were so impressed...

Kazan's career is marked by a striking progression from films expressing a detached, liberal social consciousness towards more personal and emotional films. His career reveals a basic tension: an intellectual desire to deal with social issues as viewed in his less satisfying urban films which utilize a broad and contemporary canvas, versus his instinctual response to the past and to the unworldly inhabitants of cohesive ethnic communities or simple agrarian environments…. While his work would ...

Somewhere about the middle of East of Eden … there is a scene when the boy Caleb,… visits his mother whom he has discovered to be the proprietress of a brothel, in the hope of borrowing money for a business venture. This scene … is handled with such meaningful economy, and seems the result of such cogent understanding, that it contrasts sharply with the empty show of so much of the rest of the film, and the unhappy preferences this talented director seems in danger of continuing to foll...

[In East of Eden] Kazan has done more than master the static temptations of Cinemascope. For the first time in his film career, he has harnessed his violent technique to the emotional content of his material. As a consequence, East of Eden is the deepest film Kazan has ever made and, in many respects, the best. The shock effects in East of Eden are even more jarring than those of On the Waterfront because they occur within the feelings of his characters rather than without. Also, there is none of the superi...