East of Eden (film) Although set in early 20th century Monterey, California, much of the film was actually shot on location in Mendocino, California. Some scenes were filmed in the Salinas Valley. Of the three films in which James Dean played the male lead, this is the only one to have been released during his lifetime and the only one Dean personally viewed in its entirety. The film, along with "Rebel Without a Cause" and "Giant", has been named by the American Film Institute as one of the best 400 American films of all time. In 2016, the film was selected for preservation in
Without Title partial return to "the appreciation of a certain gnarled, natural beauty" and it was seen that it "escapes the shortcomings of Hill's recent work". Poet Alan Brownjohn identified the following themes: "'mourning', 'unfruition', 'misconception'" The central section — twenty one 25-line "Pindarics after Cesare Pavese" — drew particular attention; Brownjohn seeing it as "Hill at his most complex and unapproachable", but Michael Schmidt classing it as "among Hill's most sustained meditations". Clive Wilmer considered that the sequence "becomes, at times, tediously self-referential" Without Title Without Title is a book of poems by Geoffrey Hill. It was published by Penguin in