Red Hollywood

Red Hollywood{{Cite web |title=Red Hollywood |url=https://lux.org.uk/work/red-hollywood/ |access-date=2024-05-20 |website=LUX |language=en-GB}} is a 1996 American documentary film by film essayists Thom Andersen and Noël Burch about the films made by the blacklisted writers and directors during the 1930s-1950s.{{Cite AV media |url=https://mubi.com/en/us/films/red-hollywood |title=Red Hollywood (1996) {{!}} MUBI |language=en |access-date=2024-05-20 |via=mubi.com}}{{Cite web |last=Rosenbaum |first=Jonathan |date=1985-10-26 |title=Red Hollywood |url=http://chicagoreader.com/film/red-hollywood/ |access-date=2024-05-20 |website=Chicago Reader |language=en-US}}{{Cite news |last=Dargis |first=Manohla |date=2014-08-14 |title=Un-American, Some Said. But Not Unworthy. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/15/movies/red-hollywood-looks-at-work-by-blacklisted-filmmakers.html |access-date=2024-05-20 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}

Summary

Narrated by African-American filmmaker Billy Woodberry, the essay (originated by Andersen in 1985 before being expanded in book form by Bruch) is a revisionist history of the left-leaning filmmakers that were responsible for Hollywood's portraits of the social issues of the 20th Century drawing from 53 features.{{Cite web |title=Red Hollywood |url=https://www.academymuseum.org/en/programs/detail/red-hollywood |access-date=2024-05-20 |website=Academy Museum of Motion Pictures - Timeline}}{{Cite magazine |title=Red Hollywood |url=https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/movies/red-hollywood |access-date=2024-05-20 |magazine=The New Yorker |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Lim |first=Sandra E. |date=2010-12-20 |title=Rehabilitating the Hollywood Left in Thom Andersen and Noël Burch's Red Hollywood (1996/2014) – Senses of Cinema |url=https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2018/cteq/red-hollywood-1996-2014/ |access-date=2024-05-20 |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Red Hollywood |url=https://www.screenslate.com/articles/red-hollywood |access-date=2024-05-20 |website=Screen Slate |language=en}}

Interviewed were some of The Hollywood Ten including Abraham Polonsky and Ring Lardner, Jr. alongside fellow blacklisted artists Paul Jarrico and Alfred Levitt.{{Cite web |title=Red Hollywood |url=https://www.filmlinc.org/films/red-hollywood/ |access-date=2024-05-20 |website=Film at Lincoln Center |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2014-12-22 |title=Red Hollywood |url=https://bampfa.org/event/red-hollywood-0 |access-date=2024-05-20 |website=BAMPFA |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2015-11-01 |title=Red Hollywood |url=https://harvardfilmarchive.org/calendar/red-hollywood-2015-11 |access-date=2024-05-20 |website=Harvard Film Archive |language=en}}

Reception

Red Hollywood received a 75% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.{{Cite web |title=Red Hollywood {{!}} Rotten Tomatoes |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/red_hollywood |access-date=2024-05-20 |website=www.rottentomatoes.com |language=en}}