PXDCO Reviews (Free subscription) | 11/22/2008
Click Here to download full episode The tears, they will be jerked. A trilogy of plays set in Marseilles, France, inspired the Broadway musical that inspired this 1961 drama. Leslie Caron plays the title character, who became pregnant out of wedlock and married a much older man (Maurice Chevalier) after the baby’s father (Horst Buchholtz) went [...]
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 10/26/2008
The Oscar-winning MGM musical "Gigi" has been reissued in a whimsical and less than definitive two-disc "special edition" from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment to commemorate the 50th anniversary of its debut as a musical at Broadway's Royale Theatre.
Download Unlimited TV Show Movies (Free subscription) | 10/13/2008
Summary Airs Next: NBC at Tuesday 10:00 PM (60 min.) Status: Returning Series Premiered: September 20, 1999 Show Categories: Drama, Action/Adventure This hard-hitting and emotional companion series from NBC’s Law & Order franchise chronicles the life and crimes of the elite Special Victims Unit of the New York Police Department. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit was created by Emmy [...]
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
'"There are currently two fantastic art exhibitions in Los Angeles that cinephiles won't want to miss, both offered by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences," notes Doug Cummings. "I've already written about Frédéric Back: A Life's Drawings...
A view on PR from Silicon Valley (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
Leslie Caron with puppets Renaldo the Fox and Carrot Top in the 1953 MGM musical Lili . The inaugural Santa Monica Puppetry Festival kicked off today in Santa Monica, California and runs through Sunday. The festival is paying tribute to actress Leslie Caron and 1953 MGM puppet-themed musical Lili (better known as Carnival - the title of the film's stage adaptation) with a special screening of the movie...
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
DVD Video Review: Winner of nine Oscars, and now re-released for its fiftieth anniversary, Gigi is one of the last great musicals of the MGM Freed Unit. Also on the two-disc set is the non-musical 1949 French film of Colette's story. Review by Gary Couzens.
Pretty Boring (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
Katie on Eli Stone Pictures have come out of Katie upcoming guest role on the little-watched ABC series "Eli Stone." It is about a hot lawyer who has hallucinations, one of them being Katie, who plays another lawyer, in little musical vignettes. Looks like Katie has sortuv got a Leslie Caron meets Judy Garland look going on. That lighting is straight out of "An American in Paris." Hopefully we will...
Metroblogging San Francisco (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
This Saturday the 27th, the San Francisco Film Society and the Presidio Trust are co-presenting the seventh annual Film in the Fog. This year they’re screening Vincente Minnelli’s 1951 film, An American in Paris, starring Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron. It’s a free outdoor screening on the lawn at the Main Post Theater in the [...]
New York Post (Free subscription) | 09/16/2008
TWO Oscar-winning musicals starring Leslie Caron make their debuts on high-definition Blu-ray today, as well as in two-disc special editions with sparkling new transfers on standard DVD. The 77-year-old French-born actress offers her reminisces in...
DVDVerdict (Free subscription) | 09/16/2008
Reviewed by Ben Saylor Quote: "'The ravages of time' (to borrow a phrase from the DVD insert) have failed to wither away the charms of the film's cast, nor made its music or visuals any less enjoyable."
Home Video News - MovieWeb.com (Free subscription) | 09/15/2008
Here's your chance to take home the latest version of this Best Picture winner.
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Musicals rarely tried this visibly hard to become high art.
The Sheila Variations (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
Next book on my "entertainment biography" shelf: Evenings With Cary Grant: Recollections in His Own Words and by Those Who Knew Him Best, by Nancy Nelson I can imagine that this is pretty much a book only for hardcore fans....
The New Yorker - Arts and Culture (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
Criterion releases a trio of exquisite nineteen-fifties literary adaptations by Max Ophüls: “The Earrings of Madame de…,” from a novel by Louise de Vilmorin; “La Ronde,” based on Arthur Schnitzler’s play; and “Le Plaisir,” featuring three stories by Guy de Maupassant (Sept. 16). Musicals, pre- and postwar, are coming . . .
Whatsonstage.com (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
Chaim Topol (also known as just Topol) returned to the London stage last week (14 August 2008, previews from 6 August) to take on the role of bemused narrator Honore in the first major London revival of Lerner and Loewe musical Gigi, which run...
