Starring Cary Grant, James Stewart, and Katharine Hepburn, it’s hard to imagine The Philadelphia Story being anything less than a bona fide classic. A 1940 romantic comedy based on a play by the same ...
The author of "Jungle Red: The Making of MGM's 'The Women'" tells IndieWire why she wanted to explore the making of the 1939 ...
The Cukor clock is ticking in Switzerland as the 66th Festival del Film Locarno presents — in collaboration with the Cinematheque Suisse, Turin’s National Cinema Museum, and the Film Society of ...
In an exclusive excerpt from his new book "George Cukor’s People: Acting for a Master Director," film scholar Joseph McBride argues that one of the director's biggest flops was actually one of his ...
This article includes links that may result in a small affiliate share for purchased products, which helps support independent LGBTQ+ media. The following is an excerpt from the new book George ...
Who was George Cukor? His claims to fame include working on, but not directing, “The Wizard of Oz” (1939) and being fired from “Gone With the Wind” (1939) perhaps—the issue is debated—because Clark ...
The WSWS recently spoke to film historian, critic and biographer Joseph McBride in a video call about his new book George Cukor’s People: Acting for a Master Director, a study of the Hollywood ...
Perhaps the most astute assessment of George Cukor’s moviemaking career, which spanned 51 years (1930–1981), was delivered by the auteur himself. “There are lots of creative directors who can seize a ...
The Dumas story of a tubercular courtesan is a classic only in its unrelenting morbidity, but Cukor makes it work, accenting the oozing romantic fatalism with marvelously fresh open-air sequences and ...
Throughout "George Cukor's People," he makes the case for Cukor as a major auteur by showing how delicately Cukor directed his actors, and then by extension extrapolated a visual grammar from their ...
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