Ragtime (1981)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 155m
Director: Milos Forman
Cast: James Olson, Mary Steenburgen, James Cagney, Howard E. Rollins Jr., Elizabeth McGovern
Synopsis:
In the early years of the twentieth century New York, a black pianist is befriended by a middle-class white family amid racial tensions and injustice.
Review:
Famous for being Cagney's last film, this is also an examination of hypocrisy in white American society ('They're good enough to entertain us but not to drive our cars'). Powerful and well made, the film wins over while it is on but leaves little lasting impression. In retrospect it was perhaps a relatively conventional disappointment after the director's previous films.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 155m
Director: Milos Forman
Cast: James Olson, Mary Steenburgen, James Cagney, Howard E. Rollins Jr., Elizabeth McGovern
Synopsis:
In the early years of the twentieth century New York, a black pianist is befriended by a middle-class white family amid racial tensions and injustice.
Review:
Famous for being Cagney's last film, this is also an examination of hypocrisy in white American society ('They're good enough to entertain us but not to drive our cars'). Powerful and well made, the film wins over while it is on but leaves little lasting impression. In retrospect it was perhaps a relatively conventional disappointment after the director's previous films.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 155m
Director: Milos Forman
Cast: James Olson, Mary Steenburgen, James Cagney, Howard E. Rollins Jr., Elizabeth McGovern
Synopsis:
In the early years of the twentieth century New York, a black pianist is befriended by a middle-class white family amid racial tensions and injustice.
Review:
Famous for being Cagney's last film, this is also an examination of hypocrisy in white American society ('They're good enough to entertain us but not to drive our cars'). Powerful and well made, the film wins over while it is on but leaves little lasting impression. In retrospect it was perhaps a relatively conventional disappointment after the director's previous films.