Gene Kelly was at the height of his powers in 1951, starring in musicals for MGM, and choreographing some of them. Here, Vincent Minelli directs, but the dancing is by Kelly. Leslie Caron makes her film debut, and the rest of the cast has a decidedly continental vibe. The film is “inspired” by George Gershwin’s 1928 musical of the same name, but the writing credit here goes to Alan Jay Lerner, aka half of the celebrated Lerner and Lowe musical composing team. An American in Paris won a boatload of Oscars, including Best Picture.

An American in Paris

Shelly Brisbin with Micheline Maynard and David J. Loehr

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The Movie: review/commentary on a single classic film

The Self-Referential LTS

Next time, we’ll watch

A group of misfit adventurers climb through a book-shaped portal and into a suspiciously lovely spa on a quest to find a Dwarven librarian.

Candlekeep - The Price of Beauty, Part 1

Tony Sindelar with Aleen Simms, Annette Wierstra, James Thomson, Mikah Sargent and Monty Ashley

Edited by Warren Frey.

If you love the X-Men do we ever have a movie for you. So long as you only love Wolverine. This movie starts off with a bang in the holodeck and then quickly gets to work killing a bunch of our heroes either literally or just by erasing their personalities. Sometimes even both! Read along with us as we cover the last (?) of the X-Men movies.

Dan Moren, John Moltz and Guy English

We return with a two-part Bad Batch episode, where our heroes find themselves in hot water yet again. Your Star Wars pals Dan, Kat, and Tony discuss the architecture of monasteries, clone attitudes, and the future of Star Wars animation.

Dan Moren, Tony Sindelar and K Benesh

The Podcast! The Podcast! John Holt discusses the ill-fated cruise that is Joseph Conrad’s novelette Heart of Darkness (1899).

John McCoy with John Holt