When Lorraine Hansberry’s play A RAISIN IN THE SUN opened in New York in March 1959, its author became the first African American female playwright to have a production on Broadway. The play went on to be named the best of the year by the New York Drama Critics’ Circle. In the following illustrated audio segment from a 1961 interview with Patricia Marx, Hansberry discusses her seminal work and her future plans.
The following video essay, created in 2021, is part of an oral history of author W. R. Burnett by writer Dennis L. White for the American Film Institute. It was recorded in Marina Del Rey, California, in March 1976.
Presented here are excerpts from Creative Arts Television’s 1978 documentary REMEMBERING JEAN GABIN. Originally broadcast on the television program “Camera Three,” these clips feature filmmaking colleagues discussing the legendary actor and the impact of his role as Pépé in PÉPÉ LE MOKO.
In the following interview, recorded by the American Film Institute in 1995, director Alan J. Pakula reflects on how THE PARALLAX VIEW conveyed the anxieties of the early seventies.
