Podcasts TV There's Sometimes a Buggy March Special Subject March Minnelli Madness THE LONG, LONG TRAILER (1954); THE COBWEB (1955); SOME CAME RUNNING (1958); and HOME FROM THE HILL (1960)

March Special Subject March Minnelli Madness THE LONG, LONG TRAILER (1954); THE COBWEB (1955); SOME CAME RUNNING (1958); and HOME FROM THE HILL (1960)

Published: March 17, 2023, 6:08 a.m.

[[New Improved edition \u2013 with restored Home From the Hill content!]]

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It's March Minnelli Madness as we watch three melodramas directed by Vincente Minelli, plus one nightmarish comedy:\xa0The Long, Long Trailer\xa0(1954), starring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz;\xa0The Cobweb\xa0(1955), starring Richard Widmark and Lauren Bacall (among other big names);\xa0Some Came Running\xa0(1958), based on the novel by James Jones and starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Shirley MacLaine; and\xa0Home from the Hill\xa0(1960), starring Robert Mitchum as an ironic patriarch and a curiously radiant George Peppard as his illegitimate son. We talk about Minnelli as a scrutinizer of masculinity and sexual mores, about certain auteurist concerns that we discover on the fly, and about Minnelli's version of 1950s consumer culture satire. Then, in Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto, we discuss the Minnelli melodrama-adjacent\xa0From Here to Eternity\xa0(1953), based on James Jones's first and less eccentric novel, with Frank Sinatra in a very different role.\xa0

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Time Codes:

0h 0m 45s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 THE LONG, LONG TRAILER (1954) [dir. Vincente Minnelli]

0h 26m 52s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 THE COBWEB (1955) [dir. Vincente Minnelli]

0h 41m 29s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 SOME CAME RUNNING (1958) [dir. Vincente Minnelli]

1h 17m 08s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 HOME FROM THE HILL (1960) [dir. Vincente Minnelli]\xa0

\xa01h 37m 50s:\xa0 \xa0\xa0\xa0 Fear & Moviegoing In Toronto \u2013 FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (1953) by Fred Zinnemann

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