Vincente Minnelli

Yolanda and the Thief

Vincente Minnelli, Master of Style and Substance

The director's Hollywood spectacular at BAM

Some Came Running

The director's Hollywood spectacular at BAM

Liz Taylor's Five Most Enjoyably Terrible Movies

​It wasn't always Academy Awards for Liz Taylor. When her movies were bad, they were truly rotten--though always in a highly entertaining way thanks to her verve and outfits. The five most fun stinkers she ever made are: (5) The Sandpiper. 1965. (Above) Vincente Minnelli directed this cra ... More >>

The Greatest Screen Directors Actually Did Nothing

​Some of the greatest film directors in history have reaped kudos, won Oscars, and earned a place as eternal icons of cinema art, yet they didn't really do that much on the set. According to one book I read, John Huston (Maltese Falcon, Treasure of the Sierra Madre) sometimes didn't talk to t ... More >>

Vincente Minnelli and Gene Kelly Had an Affair?

​That's what Mrs. Minnelli, Judy Garland, thought, according to the new book about the illustrious director, A Hundred or More Hidden Things: The Life and Films of Vincente Minnelli by Mark Griffin. During the filming of 1948's The Pirate, Judy was a complete mess who didn't always show up on ... More >>

Madame Bovary

​That's what Mrs. Minnelli, Judy Garland, thought, according to the new book about the illustrious director, A Hundred or More Hidden Things: The Life and Films of Vincente Minnelli by Mark Griffin. During the filming of 1948's The Pirate, Judy was a complete mess who didn't always show up on ... More >>

Meet Me in St. Louis

​That's what Mrs. Minnelli, Judy Garland, thought, according to the new book about the illustrious director, A Hundred or More Hidden Things: The Life and Films of Vincente Minnelli by Mark Griffin. During the filming of 1948's The Pirate, Judy was a complete mess who didn't always show up on ... More >>

CHILL OUT

Cure your Independence Day hangover with the Film Society

Decades Before Harvey Milk, The Temperamentals

Cure your Independence Day hangover with the Film Society

Some Like It Tony Curtis!

Cure your Independence Day hangover with the Film Society

Jennifer Jones: Selznick's Muse

From good girl to bad, one woman 's golden age in Hollywood

Prime Cut

Tim Burton makes Sweeney Todd his gory, grisly, bloodstained own

Saturation Point

MOMI celebrates the Technicolor revolution

Melodrama King

Vincente Minnelli at Anthology, plus BAM hearts Asian cinema

Six Lives to Live

Resnais's latest plays like a soap opera. And that's a compliment.

Judy Holliday: The Smart Dumb Blonde

Resnais's latest plays like a soap opera. And that's a compliment.

Gasoline on Fire: Kirk Douglas as Van Gogh

Resnais's latest plays like a soap opera. And that's a compliment.

NY Mirror

Resnais's latest plays like a soap opera. And that's a compliment.

Drenched With Feeling

A whirl of its own: Demy's Cherbourg sings of a town with pity—and every other emotion

Behind the Musicals

The Need for Freed

The Color of Paradise

Turn Back the Clock

10 Million Emotions

Turn Back the Clock

Film

Cinema Alfresco

Diagnosis: Artist

In Two New Films, the Creative Personality Becomes a Pathological Type

Thai One On

Vancouver Smackdown

Spike Lee’s Own Scary Movie

Vancouver Smackdown

The Music Man

Vancouver Smackdown