[3] May 3, 2012
Father of the Bride [4] is a comedy which pulls off a remarkable stylistic juggling act in that it is simultaneously heartwarming and satirical. The movie has been called “suburban comedic film noir.”
[3] Father of the Bride [4] is a comedy which pulls off a remarkable stylistic juggling act in that it is simultaneously heartwarming and satirical. The movie has been called “suburban comedic film noir.”
[6] Given all its behind-the-scenes drama, Meet Me In St. Louis [7] could have been a stinker. It was anything but. It's one of a small handful of perfect (or nearly perfect) movie musicals.
[9] If he’d made only movie musicals, Vincente Minnelli [10] would have earned a place in the pantheon of great American directors. Yet Minnelli couldn’t be held to just one genre.
[12] A Night to Remember [13] (1958) offers an approach to the Titanic story largely devoid of fictional elements and melodrama. It is, in fact, one of the earliest known examples of what we now call a docudrama.
[15] In Paul Mazursky’s Scenes from a Mall [16], a couple of well-to-do Los Angelenos (Woody Allen, Bette Midler) drop emotional bombshells on each other while spending money like it’s going out of style.
Links:
[1] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/Film+Blog/feed
[2] http://drupal.org/node/11816
[3] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-father-bride-1950
[4] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Vincente+Minnelli%22+title:%22Father+of+the+Bride%22
[5] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/17108#comment-form
[6] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-meet-me-st-louis-1944
[7] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Vincente+Minnelli%22+title:%22Meet+Me+In+St.+Louis%22
[8] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/17095#comment-form
[9] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/vincente-minnelli-little-magic
[10] http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0591486/
[11] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/17091#comment-form
[12] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-night-remember-1958
[13] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Kenneth+More%22+title:%22A+Night+to+Remember%22
[14] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/17085#comment-form
[15] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-scenes-mall-1991
[16] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Paul+Mazursky%22+title:%22Scenes+from+a+Mall%22
[17] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/17004#comment-form
[18] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314
[19] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=22
[20] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=19
[21] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=20
[22] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=21
[23] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=24
[24] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=25
[25] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=26
[26] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=27
[27] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=41