WRITER

Kenneth Turan

1946 - Today

Kenneth Turan

Kenneth Turan (; born October 27, 1946) is an American retired film critic, author, and lecturer in the Master of Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kenneth Turan has received more than 209,402 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Kenneth Turan is the 7,051st most popular writer (down from 6,400th in 2019), the 16,080th most popular biography from United States (down from 16,038th in 2019) and the 1,125th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

210k
Page Views (PV)
34.26
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
18
Languages Editions (L)
1.60
Effective Languages (L*)
3.52
Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Not to be missed

Motion pictures, Motion pictures, united states, Motion pictures, history

"As a child in 1950s Brooklyn, Kenneth Turan often turned to television programs like "Million Dollar Movie" on WOR-TV. Featuring a much-loved theme song from Gone with the Wind, "Million Dollar Movie" would run one feature film twice a day, every day, all week. It was there that he developed a life-long love of the world of the movies. One of the most discerning critics writing today, Kenneth Turan offers insights that are sure to delight and inspire movie-lovers of all kinds in his latest book, Unforgettable. As sophisticated and illuminating as the films they discuss, Turan's sketches are a blend of cultural analysis, historical anecdote and sordid Hollywood controversy, astute critical appraisals, all suffused with his abiding love for the silver screen. Turan's favorite films range across all genres, low and high. From All About Eve to Seven Samurai to Spirited Away, these are now timeless films--classic and contemporary, familiar and obscure, with big budgets and small--each as interesting as the lives of the authors and actors that made the usually two-or-so-hour-long cinematic experience itself"--

2014

Sundance to Sarajevo

Filmfestspiel, Film festivals, Filmindustrie

"Almost every day of the year a film festival takes place somewhere in the world - from Sub-Saharan Africa to the Land of the Midnight Sun. Sundance to Sarajevo is a tour of the world's film festivals by an insider whose familiarity with the personalities, places, and culture surrounding the cinema uniquely suits him to his role. Kenneth Turan, film critic for the Los Angeles Times, writes about the most unusual as well as the most important film festivals, and the cities in which they occur, with an eye for the larger picture. His lively narrative emphasizes the cultural, political, and sociological aspects of each event as well as the human stories that influence the various and telling ways the film world and the real world intersect."--BOOK JACKET.

2002

Sinema: American pornographic films and the people who make them

Motion pictures, History and criticism, Pornographic films

1974

Now in Theaters Everywhere

Motion pictures, Reviews, Motion pictures, reviews

2006

Free for all

Interviews, Theatrical producers and directors, Joseph Papp Public Theater (New York, N.Y.)

Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan takes you behind the scenes at the Public Theater and tells the amazing story of how Joe Papp made American theatrical and cultural history.Free for All is the irresistible oral history of the New York Shakespeare Festival and the Public Theater-two institutions that under the inspired leadership of Joseph Papp have been a premier source of revolutionary and enduring American theater. To tell this fascinating story, Kenneth Turan interviewed some 160 luminaries-including George C. Scott, Meryl Streep, Mike Nichols, Kevin Kline, James Earl Jones, David Rabe, Jerry Stiller, Tommy Lee Jones, and Wallace Shawn-and masterfully weaves their voices into a dizzyingly rich tale of creativity, conflict, and achievement. And at the center of this incredibly engrossing account of artistic daring and excellence the larger-than-life figure of Joseph Papp reigns supreme.From the Hardcover edition.

2009

Never Coming To A Theater Near You

Motion pictures, Reviews, Filmanalyse

2004

Page views of Kenneth Turans by language

Over the past year Kenneth Turan has had the most page views in the English wikipedia edition with 27,690 views, followed by Italian (725), and Persian (714). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Persian (134.87%), Belarusian (107.69%), and West Frisian (88.89%)