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	The Films of Vincente Minnelli
		Minnelli has them stand so that nearly all the small pictures on the wall behind them, are visible in gaps between their bodies.
		Minnelli was a painter himself, and his ideals as an artist were all centered in France: the Impressionists, the Post-Impressionists, the Fauves, the Ballets Russes, the Surrealists.
		Minnelli's The Pirate (1948) also opens with the heroine looking at a series of paintings that tell the back-story of the film, and there is a similar suggestion that one is involved in a world described by painting.
	members.aol.com /MG4273/minn.htm (23618 words)

	Vincente Minnelli - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vincente Minnelli (February 28, 1903 – July 25, 1986) was the professional name of Lester Anthony Minnelli who was born in Chicago, Illinois, United States, the youngest surviving child of Mina Le Beau (a French American) and Vincent Charles Minnelli (an Italian American), musical conductor of Minnelli Brothers' Tent Theater.
		However, Minnelli's films are today considered some of the finest of the 20th century, being a part of the great era of the M-G-M musical that also included.
		His widow sued Minnelli's daughter Liza Minnelli over a controversy relating to Liza Minnelli declining to pay the bills on her Beverly Hills home which Liza Minnelli (allegedly under the influence of her then husband David Gest) wished to sell and then move her stepmother into alternative accommodation, Lee however refused, later appearing to reconsider.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vincente_Minnelli (489 words)

	Vincente Minnelli
		Minnelli’s calm technique is mostly absorbed in Technicolor composition, but responds at once with a dolly-in and dissolve on young Alonzo’s smiling appreciation of Esther’s ruses.
		Minnelli’s naturalistic approach to the musical purposely confines Kelly to hoofing for the entire film before the ballet, and builds up great amounts of force behind the notion that, at any moment, the film may irrupt into song and dance.
		Minnelli ultimately adds a Giorgione flash to Ames and Gibbons’s monumental sets, to the accompaniment of those running deer from The Yearling, after which is heard the little musical figure that accompanies the melody of You Only Live Twice.
	cmulrooney.tripod.com /minnelli.html (2192 words)

	Chicago Reader Movie Review
		In one of the few essays claiming that Minnelli had a substantial theme, the late critic Stuart Byron argued in 1973 in December that the director's subject was freedom, expressed in images that have spatial depth.
		Minnelli and the theatrical couple of Manuela and Serafin never really abandon their love of illusion -- but they must understand that it is an illusion.
		As in many of Minnelli's other multicharacter dramas, and some other Hollywood melodramas, the narrative of the film is based on cyclical repetition: characters often repeat others' mistakes -- in particular, children repeat the mistakes of their parents.
	www.chicagoreader.com /movies/archives/2004/0104/040102.html (2164 words)

	Vincente Minnelli - Biography
		Yet what many movie- and theatergoers, especially the younger generations, aren’t especially aware of is Vincente Minnelli’s passion for musical theater and that his repertoire of films transformed the art of filmmaking and forever heightened the impact of movie musicals on an audience.
		Minnelli’s story is an ascension to greatness; starting at the very bottom, slowly working his way up, always knowing he wanted a life in the arts.
		Minnelli began his career in the costume department of the Chicago Theatre before heading to Broadway during the Depression where he worked as a set designer and costumer.
	www.wangcenter.org /vminelli.html (437 words)

	Vincente Minnelli
		Minnelli has characterised his adolescence as one in which he was prone to “flights of fancy”, attracted to literature and art, dreamily sketching in solitude (11).
		Minnelli's own characterisation of himself as a dreamy adolescent seems intended to draw parallels with some of the protagonists of his own films who likewise are prone to dream states or subjective visions.
		Minnelli's own publicly stated fascination with inconsistent personalities (19) makes explicit the degree to which his characters are caught within contradictory drives, between “total fulfilment” and repressive or destructive tendencies, the latter of these the result of social and cultural pressures as much as they are innate psychological problems.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/04/minnelli.html (6517 words)

	Queer Modernism: The Cinematic Aesthetics of Vincente Minnelli
		Vincente Minnelli was one of the few New York transplants who brought not merely his talents in theatrical stage and costume design, but also a creative eye and sensibility that soon rearranged the mise-en-scene of the Hollywood genres that were to become his creative forté--the MGM musical and melodrama.
		Minnelli, as the twentieth-century American dandy, sought refuge from the vulgarities of this over-masculine world by using his affinity for art--a queer modernist art--in order to ironize, to situate within and against, and to confuse masculinist cultural demands.
		Minnelli's leap into New York's cultural scene provided him with, at once (and these are linked), the pleasure of visual excess, and the opportunity to test and challenge his multiple questions of sexual and gender identity that any "queer" midwestern boy brings with him to the big city.
	www.eiu.edu /~modernity/gerst--html (8254 words)

	Biography for Vincente Minnelli (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		His father Vincent was a musical conductor of the Minnelli Brothers' Tent Theater and his only child to survive infancy spent his childhood on the road.
		Vincente Minnelli is one of the few directors, if not the only one, whom color seems to have been invented for, and usually included in every of his features a dream sequence.
		Named his daughter Liza Minnelli after the Gershwin song "Liza." He had directed the number for Ziegfeld Follies (1946), but it was cut from the final version of the film.
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0591486/bio (927 words)

	glbtq >> arts >> Minnelli, Vincente
		Dapper Vincente Minnelli was one of Hollywood's greatest directors, renowned for his skilled use of color and light and his precise attention to detail.
		Minnelli's campy vision and lavish productions were well suited to the 1940s and 1950s, but his style did not long survive the end of Hollywood's structured studio system.
		Minnelli was born on February 28, 1903 in Delaware, Ohio into a family of traveling entertainers.
	www.glbtq.com /arts/minnelli_v.html (857 words)

	Interviews \| Vincente Minnelli
		Minnelli’s years (1940-1943 as musical number specialist; 1943-1963 as director) overlapped those briefly, but while he was assigned to his share of studio dreck, the vast majority of his important projects (regardless of budget), proceeded unhindered by corporate malfeasance (and much less than they would in today’s Hollywood).
		Minnelli came down dressed as you see him in the picture and was extraordinary kind and gracious to an unknown and somewhat scruffy (I did my best but it was the Seventies, I was in my early 20s – you know) young man with an unhealthy interest in film.
		Minnelli died in 1986 at the age of 83 and the obituaries largely referred to him as the director of An American in Paris and Gigi.
	www.henrysheehan.com /interviews/mno/minnelli.html (7728 words)

	Vincente Minnelli (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Vincente Minnelli directed some of the most celebrated entertainments in cinema history, including MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (1944), FATHER OF THE BRIDE (1950), AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (1951), THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL (1952), THE BAND WAGON (1953), LUST FOR LIFE (1956) and GIGI (1958).
		Minnelli's first jobs in show business were as costume and set designer; the sophistication he would bring to the American stage and film musical was always redolent of Vogue or Vanity Fair, and it is no accident that he once directed a charming comedy entitled DESIGNING WOMAN (1957).
		Minnelli was born into a theatrical family; his parents and his uncle operated a tent show that toured the Midwest.
	theoscarsite.com /whoswho/minnelli_v.htm (547 words)

	TSPDT - Vincente Minnelli
		We must certainly categorize Minnelli as something more than a decorative artist, for the stylistic devices of his films are informed with a remarkably resilient intelligence.
		Even if we are finally to conclude that, throughout his work, there is a dominance of style over theme, it ultimately serves only to confirm his contribution to the refinement of those techniques by which Hollywood translates meanings into style and presents both as entertainment.
		Only Minnelli believes implicitly in the power of his camera to transform trash into art, and corn into caviar.
	theyshootpictures.com /minnellivincente.htm (627 words)

	Vincente Minnelli
		Once assigned by critic Andrew Sarris to the far side of auteur paradise for believing "more in beauty than in art," MGM's Vincente Minnelli was celebrated nonetheless for bringing new levels of sophistication to the movie musical in the 1940s and 1950s.
		Minnelli returned to musicals when Freed chose him to helm the ambitious An American in Paris (1951).
		Recut by MGM against Minnelli's wishes, it was slammed by critics and shunned by audiences.
	www.djangomusic.com /actor_bio.asp?pid=P103002 (1210 words)

	Vincente Minnelli @ Filmbug
		Vincente Minnelli is the stage name for Lester Anthony Minnelli (February 28, 1903 - July 25, 1986) who was born in Chicago, Illinois.
		Although an accomplished film director of the 1940s and 1950s, he is best known as the father of Liza Minnelli from his six-year marriage to Judy Garland.
		He was the only surviving child of Vincent Minnelli, the conductor of the Minelli Brothers' Tent Theatre.
	www.filmbug.com /db/34560 (184 words)

	MoMA.org \| 2003 Film and Media Exhibitions \| 12 by Vincente Minnelli (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Minnelli got his start in Hollywood as a set and costume designer, and the opulent scale and elaborate décor of his films led critics at the time to perceive the director as a mere stylist.
		For Minnelli, Emma Bovary’s tragic career as a frustrated and misguided nineteenth-century housewife was not the result of willful sinning but rather the consequence of her conservative environment, rigid upbringing, and hopelessly romantic illusions.
		Minnelli’s chef d’oeuvre is essentially a sophisticated twist on the familiar premise of “let’s put on a show.” Paired with sexy dancer Charisse, Astaire plays a washed-up movie idol snagged to appear in a campy musical.
	www.moma.org /exhibitions/film_media/2003/minnelli.html (926 words)

	Vincente Minnelli -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Though his early work was for the Broadway stage, Minnelli, working with Arthur Freed and Gene Kelly, created successful film dramas, comedies, and musicals.
		Although initially known as the daughter of two famous show-business personalities, singer Judy Garland and director Vincente Minnelli, Liza Minnelli developed into an entertainer acclaimed worldwide for her own talent as an actress, singer, and dancer.
		Hispanic American entertainer José Vincente Ferrer de Otero y Cintron was born in Santuce, Puerto Rico, on Jan. 8, 1912.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9052866 (543 words)

	The Biography Channel - Vincente Minnelli Biography
		Lester Anthony Minnelli was born into a family of touring entertainers, performing with his brothers from the age of three, much like his first wife Judy Garland, who toured with her sisters at the same age.
		His first screen work was staging isolated musical numbers for Judy Garland in Busby Berkeley's 'Strike Up the Band' (1940) and 'Babes on Broadway' (1941), and he soon began directing features, his first being the all-fl musical 'Cabin in the Sky' (1943).
		Vincente Minnelli is famed as an outstanding director of musicals, known for their lavish visual style, striking use of colour, surrealist sequences, use of ballet and clever integration of songs with the narrative theme.
	thebiographychannel.co.uk /biography_home/220:0/Vincente_Minnelli.htm (381 words)

	Academy to Celebrate Career of Vincente Minnelli
		The event is presented in honor of the centennial of Minnelli's birth.
		Born to a family of touring entertainers, Minnelli began performing at the age of three with the "Minnelli Brothers Dramatic Tent Show." Later a costume and set designer for the theater, he began directing on Broadway in 1935.
		Tickets for the Academy's Centennial Tribute to Vincente Minnelli are available to the public for $5, but quantities are limited.
	www.oscars.org /press/pressreleases/2003/03.04.14.html (220 words)

	Clock by Vincente Minnelli at Video Hills.com
		Minnelli's sentimental, spirited and touching wartime romance was a small picture by MGM standards, but Garland's star power and the backdrop of bustling Manhattan (actually Hollywood sound stages) give the picture a dynamic, worldly feel.
		(Minnelli, of course, married Judy as soon as the film wrapped!) Great support work from James and Lucille Gleason as a milkman and wife round out this sweet film about love on a very tight schedule.
		Director Vincente Minnelli brought his designer's eye to the film, turning (by his own avowed intention) New York City itself into the third main character in the drama.
	www.video-hills.com /Clock-6301967070.htm (873 words)

	Vincente Minelli (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Wanting to pursue an artistic career, he worked at the costume departement of the Chicago Theater, then on Broadway during the depression as a set designer and costumer, adopting a latinized version of his father's fisrt name when he was hired as an art-director by the Music Hall, then at Radio City.
		Minnelli also exhibited a flair for light comedy, directing the popular 1950 Spencer Tracy-Elizabeth Taylor starrer,Father of the Bride its 1951 sequel,Father's Little Dividend plusDesigning Woman (1957) andThe Reluctant Debutante (1958).
		In 1976 he came out of retirement to direct daughter Liza and Ingrid Bergman inA Matter of Time the result was deemed a botch, and Minnelli denounced the studio-edited cut of the film, which was his last.
	www.movietreasures.com /main/Vincente_Minelli/vincente_minelli.html (707 words)

	Vincente Minnelli (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Cabin in the Sky (1943) - Vincente Minnelli.
		Father of the Bride (1950) - Vincente Minnelli / Spencer Tracy, Elizabeth Taylor.
		Gigi (1958) - Vincente Minnelli / Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier.
	www.asdfplus.com /Posters/zb-Dir3/MinnelliV.htm (89 words)

	Vincente Minnelli -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Minnelli combined daring use of colour with imaginative camera work, producing elegant and visually sophisticated movies.
		Minnelli married Garland in 1945, and their only child, Liza Minnelli, became a successful actress and singer.
		In 1950 Minnelli and Kelly collaborated on An American in Paris (1951 release), an Academy Award-winning, innovative movie relying heavily on dance.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9052866 (800 words)

	Rotten Tomatoes Forums - Vincente Minnelli (BPSJ) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		As for Vincente Minnelli, he is not too hard to find, and TCM just played a marathon of his films, so I'll be voting and commenting throughout the week.
		Re: Vincente Minnelli...I've certainly seen enough to vote this week but I hope to catch a couple more at least.
		It is my favorite musical from Minnelli, and a great film, both visually and from a thematical point of view (the opposition real life/dreamed and out of time life).
	www.rottentomatoes.com /vine/showthread.php?t=213255 (2426 words)

	Vincente Minnelli Current Month TV Schedule
		Click here for MeeVee's next 12 days of Local television schedules for Vincente Minnelli.
		Vincente Minnelli directed this tale of an aging movie star who agrees to trip the light fantastic on Broadway.
		Vincente Minnelli's screen version of the stage musical about a divine battle for a gambler's soul.
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