Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
- Wed, Nov 26
Director: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly Run Time: 103 min. Release Year: 1952
Starring: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen, Millard Mitchell
In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen partner struggle to make the difficult transition to talking pictures.
“The most exquisite and exuberant dream of the dream machine in transition, Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly’s ‘Singin’ in the Rain’ includes perhaps one of the greatest examples of how art can at once wildly embellish and find the emotional truth of an artist’s persona. And it is, of course, the greatest film to date about the pitfalls and promises that come along with change in film, though its ideas are so clear and profoundly realized that they have by now become universally relatable.” ~ Chris Cabin, Slant
Screening 11/2 + 11/26