Vincente Minnelli: a Story of Taste and Style0

Vincente Minnelli is remem­bered as one of American cinema’s most dis­tinc­tive and cre­ative visual styl­ists. His lav­ish use of color and, in the 1950s, widescreen, was praised by French crit­ics who deemed him a mas­ter of “mise-en-scèné.” A gen­er­a­tion of younger American film­mak­ers, includ­ing Martin Scorsese (whose 1977 New York, New York star­ring Vincente and Judy Garland’s daugh­ter Liza Minnelli, con­tains many touches in homage to Minnelli) has cited him as an influ­ence. His best-known screen work was done in the musi­cal genre, where he also worked as a stage direc­tor before going to Hollywood. Discover his work with Michael Davies.