Showing posts with label Minnelli. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Minnelli. Show all posts
Wednesday, 8 March 2017

Back to La La Land

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A return visit to LA LA LAND was nice this week, for a rainy afternoon, as my partner had not seen it, and yes, he loved it - the mu...
Wednesday, 18 January 2017

La La Land

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Finally, LA LA LAND . See the hit movie, sure, but don't think it's the best musical ever just because you've never seen a mu...
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Friday, 28 October 2016

Friday treat

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With thanks to Martin. I really must watch Vincente's under-cherished BELLS ARE RINGING again ("I have the dvd/blu-ray so can wa...
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Wednesday, 1 June 2016

A Matter of Time, 1976

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Finally, thanks to rare-movie-hound Jerry, a look at Vincente Minnelli's last feature, A MATTER OF TIME , from 1976. This one always ...
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Friday, 25 March 2016

Kismet, 1955

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MGM's 1955 musical by Vincente Minnelli is actually rather wonderful, I hadn't realised - I enjoyed it enormously early today, an...
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Sunday, 21 June 2015

Fathers

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Some of our favourite fathers, seeing as its Father's Day ....   (for Dad)  TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD , 1962 - Has there been a more ...
Saturday, 4 April 2015

Some Minnelli's for Easter ....

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We have been enjoying some prime 1950s Minnelli films: musicals, dramas, comedies ..... THE BANDWAGON remains our favourite musical - se...
Tuesday, 24 March 2015

Tea and sympathy for a midnight cowboy

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MIDNIGHT COWBOY was on television again and I had to go back to it, after not seeing it in decades, and I have been reading about the 1956...
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Friday, 19 September 2014

Some eye-catching posters - an occasional series

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Tuesday, 2 September 2014

All projection rooms should be like this:

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From of course, Minnelli's torrid drama  TWO WEEKS IN ANOTHER TOWN , 1962.  (See Minnelli label...) Yes, that's Kirk Douglas,...
Friday, 28 February 2014

'60s comedies: the witty and the witless ...

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Two long-unseen '60s comedies were interesting viewings now. GOODBYE CHARLIE from 1964 I did not remember at all, though I did see it ...
Thursday, 27 June 2013

R.I.P.

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James Gandolfini (1961-2013) died aged 51, in Rome. best known of course as crime boss Tony Soprano in the long-running THE SOPRANOS , y...