The Cukor clock is ticking in Switzerland as the 66th Festival del Film Locarno presents — in collaboration with the Cinematheque Suisse, Turin’s National Cinema Museum, and the Film Society of ...

The Dumas story of a tubercular courtesan is a classic only in its unrelenting morbidity, but Cukor makes it work, accenting the oozing romantic fatalism with marvelously fresh open-air sequences and ...

Who was George Cukor? His claims to fame include working on, but not directing, “The Wizard of Oz” (1939) and being fired from “Gone With the Wind” (1939) perhaps—the issue is debated—because Clark ...

The WSWS recently spoke to film historian, critic and biographer Joseph McBride in a video call about his new book George Cukor’s People: Acting for a Master Director, a study of the Hollywood ...

Practically everything ever written about the venerable George Cukor has focused on his facility with style. Little wonder, then, that in this compilation of 21 interviews, Cukor is urged to reminisce ...

George Cukor probably would have dismissed the auteur theory of film, which gives most credit to the director. For him, movies were a collaborative art. He's credited with directing over 50 pictures, ...

Perhaps the most astute assessment of George Cukor’s moviemaking career, which spanned 51 years (1930–1981), was delivered by the auteur himself. “There are lots of creative directors who can seize a ...

Warning: There are spoilers ahead for Hollywood. Cukor would invite over “the chief unit,” those friends and colleagues he knew he could trust not to out him. He told Architectural Digest in 1978 that ...

The festival, now under the artistic direction of Carlo Chatrian, also named its new programming team. By Eric J. Lyman ROME – The Locarno Film Festival announced Monday that My Fair Lady director ...

This is the second part of an interview with Joseph McBride, author of George Cukor’s People. The first part of the interview and a comment on the book were posted January 8. David Walsh: You’ve ...