Many of the late, great director’s films remain unavailable to watch online, but that still leaves plenty of gems
Phrases like “end of an era” are routinely thrown about when a luminary in their field dies at a ripe old age, but for film lovers, the sentiment hit harder than usual with the passing of Stanley Donen last month. At 94, 20 years on from his final, made-for-tv film (Love Letters), the director of Singin’ in the Rain truly seemed about the last of the golden age masters. As artful a craftsman as ever existed of pure, candy-bright Hollywood entertainment, he outlived almost all the stars whose images he fixed most gorgeously on celluloid.
Did the flurry of Donen obituaries prompt a spike in searches for Singin’ in the Rain across digital viewing platforms, among people nostalgic to revisit the preeminent showbiz musical’s watertight joys? I should hope so: streaming...
Phrases like “end of an era” are routinely thrown about when a luminary in their field dies at a ripe old age, but for film lovers, the sentiment hit harder than usual with the passing of Stanley Donen last month. At 94, 20 years on from his final, made-for-tv film (Love Letters), the director of Singin’ in the Rain truly seemed about the last of the golden age masters. As artful a craftsman as ever existed of pure, candy-bright Hollywood entertainment, he outlived almost all the stars whose images he fixed most gorgeously on celluloid.
Did the flurry of Donen obituaries prompt a spike in searches for Singin’ in the Rain across digital viewing platforms, among people nostalgic to revisit the preeminent showbiz musical’s watertight joys? I should hope so: streaming...
- 3/11/2019
- by Guy Lodge
- The Guardian - Film News
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