
Gigi
- Sun, Feb 16
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Director: Vincente Minnelli Run Time: 116 min. Format: Digital Release Year: 1958
Starring: Eva Gabor, Hermione Gingold, Leslie Caron, Louis Jourdan, Maurice Chevalier
Screenwriter: Alan Jay Lerner from the novella by Colette
Producer: Arthur Freed
Vidiots is thrilled to welcome film historian, author, podcaster, and Founding Member Karina Longworth for a series of film screenings that tie into the new season of the hit podcast You Must Remember This – The Old Man is Still Alive.
Vincente Minnelli directs this gorgeous Metrocolor Parisian musical starring the effervescent Leslie Caron as a young girl growing into her own and learning to fit into high society as her friendship with eternal bachelor (played by Louis Jourdan) begins to blossom into something more. With music from the team that brought us My Fair Lady, gorgeous set pieces, costumes, breathtaking backdrops, and the natural talent and charisma of the magnificent Caron, this candy-colored confection won 9 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director for Minnelli.
The Old Man is Still Alive tells the story of 14 directors — including Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hawks, John Huston and more — whose careers began in the early decades of Hollywood, who were still making movies in the 60s and 70s and even 80s. In many cases, these directors, many of them Oscar winners or the men behind undeniable classics like It’s a Wonderful Life, My Fair Lady, Sunset Boulevard, Gigi and Psycho, attempted – or were forced – to engage with massive changes in technology; sudden-seeming shifts in attitudes towards race and gender; and a new generation of studio executives and audiences who could be skeptical that an old man had anything to offer in a world obsessed with burning down the past and starting fresh. Some railed against the new “degenerate” cinema made by, in Billy Wilder’s phrase, “the kids with beards” and tried to keep doing what they had been doing for 30 years; others were quick to try to get with the times by making films that confronted the generation gap and a transformed society (even dropping acid as “research”); others fell somewhere in between.
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