The Bad and the Beautiful
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Director: Vincente Minnelli
1952 / 118min / 35mm
The late Kirk Douglas is in bully-beautiful-bastard form, playing an amalgam of infamously hard-driving producers David O. Selznick and Val Lewton in Minnelli’s toxic Tinseltown tale. Actress Lana Turner, writer Dick Powell, and director Barry Sullivan all recollect how they’ve been double-crossed by Douglas’s dirty-dealing Jonathan Shields, who helped to make each of them and broke them down in turn. The ingenuity of the triptych flashback structure is matched by that of Minnelli’s fluid moving camera, insidiously elegant.
Distributor: Park Circus
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