Month-long Vincente Minnelli film retrospective opens in Lausanne

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Wednesday, 7 September, 2011

Month-long Vincente Minnelli film retrospective opens in Lausanne

The Swiss Film Archive based in Lausanne kicks off its new season with a major retrospective dedicated to the work of legenAmerican filmmaker Vincente Minelli. Husband of Judy Garland and father to Liza Minnelli, he is perhaps best known for his musicals, like An American in Paris, Gigi, and The Bandwagon, which were innovative for its time. The Swiss Film Archive is screening all of Minnelli’s works, from comedies to dark dramas, until the end of September. WRS’s Marc Menichini asks Joe McElhaney, a film professor at Hunter College in New York who has written a book on the Hollywood icon, if one could say Vincente Minnelli brought a certain sophistication to the musical genre: