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For those in the New York City Area BAM will be showing MGM musicals from the 1950's and 1960's and a few even later. Astaire, Kelly, and Reynolds are the most prominently featured.
Many but not all in 35MM.
http://www.bam.org/film/2016/thats-entertainment-mgm-musicals-part-ii
Nov 18—Dec 8, 2016
Part of BAMcinématek
No studio did musicals better than MGM: theirs were bigger, splashier, more tuneful, and more innovative than any others. This second in a two-part series charts the evolution of the MGM musical from its heyday in the 1950s—when producer Arthur Freed, directors Vincente Minnelli and Stanley Donen, and star-choreographers Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire pushed the form to new expressive heights—through the 1960s, as changing tastes seemed to signal its decline, to the 1970s and ‘80s, when the genre was revitalized by filmmakers with a fresh, postmodern approach.
CO-PRESENTED BY WARNER ARCHIVE
FILM
An American in Paris
Nov 18—Nov 20, 2016
A GI-turned-starving-artist (Gene Kelly) woos a lovely French girl (Leslie Caron) to Gershwin’s tuneful score in Vincente Minnelli’s beloved, tour-de-force Technicolor classic.
FILM
Royal Wedding
Sat, Nov 19, 2016
Fred Astaire dances opposite a hat rack and—miraculously—on the ceiling in Stanley Donen’s sparkling, London-set romance.
FILM
Brigadoon
Sun, Nov 20, 2016
Vincente Minnelli fashions Lerner and Loewe’s Broadway hit—about a mythic Scottish village that appears for only one day every century—into a poignant evocation of the struggle between fantasy and reality.
FILM
Summer Stock
Mon, Nov 21, 2016
In her last film for MGM, Judy Garland, clad in iconic black fedora and tuxedo jacket, goes out in a blaze of glory performing her celebrated rendition of “Get Happy.”
FILM
I Love Melvin
Tue, Nov 22, 2016
A rarely screened B-delight, Don Weis’s short and sweet New York musical re-teams the ever-buoyant Debbie Reynolds and Donald O’Connor after Singin’ in the Rain.
FILM
The Affairs of Dobie Gillis
Tue, Nov 22, 2016
This blast-from-the-atomic-age-past campus comedy plays like Ferris Bueller for the ’50 and features the legendary Bob Fosse in one of his earliest film appearances.
FILM
Bells Are Ringing
Wed, Nov 23, 2016
An effervescent Judy Holliday stars as a meddling New York City telephone operator in this offbeat charmer, the last musical produced by MGM’s famed Freed Unit.
FILM
Singin’ in the Rain
Nov 24—Nov 26, 2016
Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, and Donald O’Connor star in this classic movie musical, featuring several legendary musical numbers, including Kelly’s tour-de-force “Broadway Melody Ballet.”
FILM
Kiss Me Kate
Fri, Nov 25, 2016
Wall-to-wall Cole Porter tunes and the dancing of a hotshot young Bob Fosse light up this zingy, inventive musical take on The Taming of the Shrew.
FILM
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Sat, Nov 26, 2016
Stanley Donen’s thrillingly kinetic frontier foot-stomper explodes with some of the most astoundingly athletic dancing of all time.
FILM
Gigi
Sun, Nov 27, 2016
Vincente Minnelli’s Oscar-winning musical stars Leslie Caron as the descendent of a long line of French courtesans.
FILM
High Society
Nov 27—Nov 28, 2016
The Philadelphia Story gets a high-gloss, Technicolor musical makeover, featuring Grace Kelly, Bing Crosby, and Frank Sinatra; songs by Cole Porter; and appearances by Louis Armstrong and his band
FILM
The Belle of New York
Mon, Nov 28, 2016
Fred Astaire dances on air in this fantastical Freed Unit confection set in turn-of-the-century Manhattan.
FILM
Invitation to the Dance
Tue, Nov 29, 2016
Gene Kelly’s wordless, artily ambitious passion project—which tells three stories entirely through dance—is a rare example of a big-budget, studio-financed experimental film.
FILM
Silk Stockings
Wed, Nov 30, 2016
Fred Astaire goes out with a bang in his final MGM musical, a clever reworking of the Lubitsch classic Ninotchka, which features a witty, Cole Porter-penned spoof of rock ‘n’ roll.
FILM
It’s Always Fair Weather
Thu, Dec 1, 2016
Sensational production numbers—including Gene Kelly tapping in roller skates—are combined with a surprisingly cynical edge in one of the most fascinating musicals of the 1950s.
FILM
The Band Wagon
Dec 2—Dec 3, 2016
Fred Astaire is an actor making a comeback in a ludicrously avant-garde production of Faust in this show-stopping musical masterpiece, which features some of the finest song and dance numbers ever dreamed up.
FILM
The Boy Friend
Sat, Dec 3, 2016
Mod icon Twiggy stars in renegade auteur Ken Russell’s delirious homage to the musicals of the 1920s and 30s, with production numbers that play like Busby Berkeley fantasias for the post-psychedelic age.
FILM
Pennies From Heaven
Sun, Dec 4, 2016
Steve Martin is a Depression-era sheet music salesman who escapes into a Tin Pan Alley fantasy world in this alternately dazzling and poignant deconstruction of the Golden Age musical.
FILM
Victor/Victoria
Sun, Dec 4, 2016
Blake Edwards’ brilliant boudoir farce boasts sparkling dialogue, Henry Mancini music, and Julie Andrews as a 1930s cabaret performer who cooks up a gender-switch scheme that makes her the toast of Paris.
FILM
Goodbye Mr. Chips
Wed, Dec 7, 2016
Peter O’Toole received one of his seven Academy Award nominations for his portrayal of the mild-mannered British schoolteacher who carries on an improbable, decades-long romance with a music hall showgirl.
FILM
That's Entertainment! III
Thu, Dec 8, 2016
This behind-the-scenes glimpse of MGM’s dream factory is a musical fan’s treasure trove, featuring commentary by the stars themselves as well as reels of rare outtakes and previously unseen footage.
FILM
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Thu, Dec 8, 2016
An Oscar-nominated Debbie Reynolds is buoyant as the titular social climber, whose moxie takes her from backwoods Colorado orphan to turn-of-the-century Denver society lady to heroine of the Titanic disaster.
Many but not all in 35MM.
http://www.bam.org/film/2016/thats-entertainment-mgm-musicals-part-ii
Nov 18—Dec 8, 2016
Part of BAMcinématek
No studio did musicals better than MGM: theirs were bigger, splashier, more tuneful, and more innovative than any others. This second in a two-part series charts the evolution of the MGM musical from its heyday in the 1950s—when producer Arthur Freed, directors Vincente Minnelli and Stanley Donen, and star-choreographers Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire pushed the form to new expressive heights—through the 1960s, as changing tastes seemed to signal its decline, to the 1970s and ‘80s, when the genre was revitalized by filmmakers with a fresh, postmodern approach.
CO-PRESENTED BY WARNER ARCHIVE
FILM
An American in Paris
Nov 18—Nov 20, 2016
A GI-turned-starving-artist (Gene Kelly) woos a lovely French girl (Leslie Caron) to Gershwin’s tuneful score in Vincente Minnelli’s beloved, tour-de-force Technicolor classic.
FILM
Royal Wedding
Sat, Nov 19, 2016
Fred Astaire dances opposite a hat rack and—miraculously—on the ceiling in Stanley Donen’s sparkling, London-set romance.
FILM
Brigadoon
Sun, Nov 20, 2016
Vincente Minnelli fashions Lerner and Loewe’s Broadway hit—about a mythic Scottish village that appears for only one day every century—into a poignant evocation of the struggle between fantasy and reality.
FILM
Summer Stock
Mon, Nov 21, 2016
In her last film for MGM, Judy Garland, clad in iconic black fedora and tuxedo jacket, goes out in a blaze of glory performing her celebrated rendition of “Get Happy.”
FILM
I Love Melvin
Tue, Nov 22, 2016
A rarely screened B-delight, Don Weis’s short and sweet New York musical re-teams the ever-buoyant Debbie Reynolds and Donald O’Connor after Singin’ in the Rain.
FILM
The Affairs of Dobie Gillis
Tue, Nov 22, 2016
This blast-from-the-atomic-age-past campus comedy plays like Ferris Bueller for the ’50 and features the legendary Bob Fosse in one of his earliest film appearances.
FILM
Bells Are Ringing
Wed, Nov 23, 2016
An effervescent Judy Holliday stars as a meddling New York City telephone operator in this offbeat charmer, the last musical produced by MGM’s famed Freed Unit.
FILM
Singin’ in the Rain
Nov 24—Nov 26, 2016
Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, and Donald O’Connor star in this classic movie musical, featuring several legendary musical numbers, including Kelly’s tour-de-force “Broadway Melody Ballet.”
FILM
Kiss Me Kate
Fri, Nov 25, 2016
Wall-to-wall Cole Porter tunes and the dancing of a hotshot young Bob Fosse light up this zingy, inventive musical take on The Taming of the Shrew.
FILM
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Sat, Nov 26, 2016
Stanley Donen’s thrillingly kinetic frontier foot-stomper explodes with some of the most astoundingly athletic dancing of all time.
FILM
Gigi
Sun, Nov 27, 2016
Vincente Minnelli’s Oscar-winning musical stars Leslie Caron as the descendent of a long line of French courtesans.
FILM
High Society
Nov 27—Nov 28, 2016
The Philadelphia Story gets a high-gloss, Technicolor musical makeover, featuring Grace Kelly, Bing Crosby, and Frank Sinatra; songs by Cole Porter; and appearances by Louis Armstrong and his band
FILM
The Belle of New York
Mon, Nov 28, 2016
Fred Astaire dances on air in this fantastical Freed Unit confection set in turn-of-the-century Manhattan.
FILM
Invitation to the Dance
Tue, Nov 29, 2016
Gene Kelly’s wordless, artily ambitious passion project—which tells three stories entirely through dance—is a rare example of a big-budget, studio-financed experimental film.
FILM
Silk Stockings
Wed, Nov 30, 2016
Fred Astaire goes out with a bang in his final MGM musical, a clever reworking of the Lubitsch classic Ninotchka, which features a witty, Cole Porter-penned spoof of rock ‘n’ roll.
FILM
It’s Always Fair Weather
Thu, Dec 1, 2016
Sensational production numbers—including Gene Kelly tapping in roller skates—are combined with a surprisingly cynical edge in one of the most fascinating musicals of the 1950s.
FILM
The Band Wagon
Dec 2—Dec 3, 2016
Fred Astaire is an actor making a comeback in a ludicrously avant-garde production of Faust in this show-stopping musical masterpiece, which features some of the finest song and dance numbers ever dreamed up.
FILM
The Boy Friend
Sat, Dec 3, 2016
Mod icon Twiggy stars in renegade auteur Ken Russell’s delirious homage to the musicals of the 1920s and 30s, with production numbers that play like Busby Berkeley fantasias for the post-psychedelic age.
FILM
Pennies From Heaven
Sun, Dec 4, 2016
Steve Martin is a Depression-era sheet music salesman who escapes into a Tin Pan Alley fantasy world in this alternately dazzling and poignant deconstruction of the Golden Age musical.
FILM
Victor/Victoria
Sun, Dec 4, 2016
Blake Edwards’ brilliant boudoir farce boasts sparkling dialogue, Henry Mancini music, and Julie Andrews as a 1930s cabaret performer who cooks up a gender-switch scheme that makes her the toast of Paris.
FILM
Goodbye Mr. Chips
Wed, Dec 7, 2016
Peter O’Toole received one of his seven Academy Award nominations for his portrayal of the mild-mannered British schoolteacher who carries on an improbable, decades-long romance with a music hall showgirl.
FILM
That's Entertainment! III
Thu, Dec 8, 2016
This behind-the-scenes glimpse of MGM’s dream factory is a musical fan’s treasure trove, featuring commentary by the stars themselves as well as reels of rare outtakes and previously unseen footage.
FILM
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Thu, Dec 8, 2016
An Oscar-nominated Debbie Reynolds is buoyant as the titular social climber, whose moxie takes her from backwoods Colorado orphan to turn-of-the-century Denver society lady to heroine of the Titanic disaster.
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