[3] May 25, 2012
Baseball is a lot on the minds of Kansas Citians this summer. With that in mind, the Library is pleased to warm up the bullpen with the Hollywood Homers film series, an entire lineup of baseball movies.
[3] Baseball is a lot on the minds of Kansas Citians this summer. With that in mind, the Library is pleased to warm up the bullpen with the Hollywood Homers film series, an entire lineup of baseball movies.
[5] An American in Paris [6] sums up the very essence of Hollywood's Golden Era: Why bother with the real and true when the make-believe is so much more satisfying?
[8] The Clock [9] isn’t all that different from dozens of other home-front romances churned out by Hollywood during World War II. But it is special, and for that we can thank director Vincente Minnelli.
[11] Asked to pick his favorite of his movies, Vincente Minnelli always named Lust for Life [12]. You can see why he was drawn to the story of Vincent van Gogh. The painter was all about color. And Minnelli may have had the finest grasp of color of any director of the Technicolor era.
[14] Hedwig and the Angry Inch [15] is bitterly funny, astonishingly musical, and weirdly emotional. It’s a campy romp that you can hum all the way home. It may be the greatest midnight movie since The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Links:
[1] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/Film+Blog/feed
[2] http://drupal.org/node/11816
[3] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/film-series-intro-hollywood-homers
[4] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/17307#comment-form
[5] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-american-paris-1951
[6] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Vincente+Minnelli%22+title:%22An+American+in+Paris%22
[7] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/17287#comment-form
[8] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-clock-1944
[9] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Vincente+Minnelli%22+title:%22The+Clock%22
[10] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/17272#comment-form
[11] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-lust-life-1956
[12] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Vincente+Minnelli%22+title:%22Lust+for+Life%22
[13] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/17265#comment-form
[14] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-hedwig-and-angry-inch-2001
[15] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=format:%22DVD%22+author:%22John+Cameron+Mitchell%22+title:%22Hedwig+and+the+Angry+Inch%22
[16] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/17257#comment-form
[17] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314
[18] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=22
[19] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=19
[20] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=20
[21] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=21
[22] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=24
[23] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=25
[24] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=26
[25] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=27
[26] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=42