Heller in Pink Tights (Cukor, 1960): BFI Southbank, NFT1, 6.10pm
This 35mm presentation (also screening on August 5th) is part of the Sophia Loren season at BFI Southbank. Full details here. Tonight's screening is introduced by season curator Adrian Wootton.
Time Out review:
George Cukor's one stab at the Western genre was a typically personal response
to the conventions, playing much of the adventure for comedy, and
centering the plot around a touring theatrical troupe. As in so many of
his films, the relationship between life and theatre is explored as the
company, performing to ramshackle communities in an untamed frontier,
act out heroic tales of love, passion and honourable death, surrounded
by an altogether less romantic reality in which people struggle simply
to survive. As in A Star Is Born and Les Girls, George Hoyningen-Huene's colour designs are magnificent, and under the expert
eye of Cukor, even Sophia Loren and Anthony Quinn give superb performances.
Geoff Andrew
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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