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...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...
...Susan, Audie eventually 1) annihilates a group of real-estate operators who are trying to grab the ranch of Susan's father (Paul Kelly), 2) rounds up Kelly's cattle and drives them to market against obstacles, natural and otherwise, 3) clinches with Susan in a Technicolor fadeout. In its resolutely conventional blend of sagebrush and six-shooters, Gunsmoke manages not to violate in any detail the venerable horse-opera formula established by The Great Train Robbery 50 years...
Peter Pan. J. M. Barrie's fantasy about "the boy who would not grow up," in a freewheeling, feature-length, Technicolor cartoon adaptation by Walt Disney (TIME...