Word: technicolorful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lines. Two years ago, to skirt a decision between All About Eve and Sunset Boulevard, the Academy chose Born Yesterday. And last year An American in Paris became the darkhorse victor over A Streetcar Named Desire, A Place in the Sun, and Death of a Salesman. Gene Kelly's technicolor crepe suzette was a fine musical comedy--it was also inferior to the other three. Also last year unpopular Marlon Brando lost out to Humphrey Bogart as a matter of sentiment rather than performance...
...Story of Three Loves (MGM) is rich, triple-scoop helping of boy-meets-girl aimed at the matinee carriage trade. Dressed up with Technicolor, an assortment of stars and a variety of Continental backgrounds, the picture presents more than two hours of romance in three loosely linked episodes...
...Technicolor extravaganzas go, Moulin Rouge is the best I have seen. Director John Huston has captured bawdy, naughty Paris at the turn of the century, and he portrays equally well back street cafes and fashionable clubs. Yet I think Technicolor was the wrong medium. The blaring red, white, and blue type of photography considerably weakens whatever artistic subtlety the film has. Although sometimes Hustson subdues the color with dawn light or smoky pallor, many scenes seem ridiculously gaudy...
...only reason for using Technicolor was to exploit Toulouse-Lautrec's paintings, it should not have been used. The paintings flash across the screen for at least five minutes, boring the non-cultured and leaving the art appreciators gasping. Further, I do not think the use of greens and mauves in haggard faces conveys either realism or artistry...
...Without Technicolor, Moulin Rouge could have been an excellent film. But the glittering colors becloud rather than claborate its sensitive pathos...