Kenneth Turan
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Kenneth Turan was film critic for the Los Angeles Times and National Public Radio’s Morning Edition as well as the director of the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes. He has been a staff writer for the Washington Post as well as The Times’ book review editor. A graduate of Swarthmore College and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, he teaches film reviewing and non-fiction writing at USC. His most recent books are “Never Coming To A Theater Near You” and “Free For All: Joe Papp, The Public and The Greatest Theater Story Ever Told.” He retired from The Times in April 2020.
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After nearly 30 years as the LA Times’ chief film critic, Kenneth Turan steps back from weekly duties with a list of 14 time-tested classics to get movie fans through the hardest of times.
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Times’ critics Justin Chang and Kenneth Turan recommend “The Invisible Man,” “Knives Out,” “Parasite” and more as the best new releases to watch at home.
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Kenneth Turan on the new book “The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood” and V.I. Pudovkin’s “Bolshevik Trilogy” on Blu-ray.
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French filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier takes us on ‘Journeys Through French Cinema,’ an eight-hour survey of Gallic film.
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Movie critics Justin Chang and Kenneth Turan recommend the best movies available for viewing at home.
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Critics Justin Chang and Kenneth Turan recommend recent releases such as “The Invisible Man,” “Emma” and “Parasite” you can view at home.
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“Balloon,” a based-on-fact drama about two families attempting to escape Communist East Germany in a homemade hot-air balloon, is built on classic movie thrills.
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Director Andrew Goldberg’s documentary “Viral: Antisemitism in Four Mutations” look at four examples of perhaps the oldest hatred.
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Starring Fay Wray and a giant, brilliantly rendered stop-motion ape, 1933’s “King Kong” returns as part of Fathom Events’ TCM Big Screen Classics series.
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A liberals versus conservatives exploitation epic, wrapped in controversy, that ultimately does not enthrall.