Gigi for Valentine's Day

What better way to welcome Valentine's Day and Oscar season than with one of the most romantic Oscar-winning movies ever made? "Gigi" Introduced by Vincente Minnelli biographer, Mark Griffin 2/14/13 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm Emerson College Paramount Center Bright Family Screening Room "Gigi" (MGM, 1958), winner of nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, this sumptuous musical stars Leslie Caron as a precocious Parisian girl groomed to be a kept woman, who comes to realize she'd rather marry for love instead. Laced with some of Lerner-and-Loewe's finest songs ("Thank Heaven for Little Girls," "The Night They Invented Champagne") and considered to be the last great MGM musical, this luxurious production crowned the career of acclaimed director Vincente Minnelli. "Gigi" will be introduced by Emerson graduate Mark Griffin, author of "A Hundred or More Hidden Things: The Life and Films of Vincente Minnelli" (Da Capo Press). Before the main feature, Griffin will screen a compilation of clips from some of Minnelli's other movies including "Meet Me In St. Louis," "An American in Paris" and "The Band Wagon." Read more in Arts Boston HERE. Sponsored by Department of Visual and Media Arts. For more information please contact: Anna Feder

Library Journal: Mark Griffin's new book on Vincente Minnelli

"..well-written and tasteful work..."
~ Carol J. Binkowski, Library Journal

Read the full Library Journal review of Mark Griffin's new book A Hundred or More Hidden Things: The Life and Films of Vincente Minnelli at this link.

Published by Da Capo Press
Biography / Film
$15.95 | $20.00 (Can.)
ISBN 978-0-78672-099-6
E-BOOK ISBN 978-0-306-81893-6
6 x 9 | 320 pages | 70 B&W photos

Internet Review of Books: Not your usual gossip feast

“Not your traditional tell-all gossip feast…Instead, the book offers the reader a meticulously researched chapter-by-chapter portal to Minnelli’s thirty-three films…One of the pleasures of Griffin’s book, which essentially ends more than thirty years ago with Minnelli’s final film, is the joy of discovery. We can now see for ourselves overlooked masterpieces in film on DVD…Mark Griffin has pointed the way to 33 fascinating other movies worth watching.”
~ Charles L. Hoyt, Internet Review of Books

Read the full review in the Internet Review of Books at this link.

Reviews of New Vincente Minnelli Book

Follow this link and scroll down to read some great quotes about Mark Griffin's new book about Oscar-winning director Vincente Minnelli.

The title of this book which will be released on March 2, 2010 is A Hundred or More Hidden Things: The Life and Films of Vincente Minnelli.

Biographers Robert Hofler and Foster Hirsch have both given this new book the thumbs up.