The Moving Image Source Calendar is a selective international guide to retrospectives, screenings, festivals, and exhibitions.
Descriptions are drawn from the calendars of the presenting venues.
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Richard Quine at Columbia
August 8-16, 2008 at
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
, Los Angeles
The little-known Richard Quine, who started his career as a child actor and dancer, became a contract director at Columbia in 1950 where he attracted a stock company of gifted artists that included the actors Kim Novak (with whom he was romantically linked for five years), Jack Lemmon, Judy Holliday, Mickey Rooney, Ernie Kovacs, and the writer Blake Edwards, who referred to Quine as his mentor. Over the next 10 years, Quine directed a series of satiric comedies, romantic comedies, farces, musicals, thrillers, and the exquisite melodrama Strangers When We Meet, which may be his greatest achievement. The writer-director Lindsay Anderson wrote of Quine's early films that "they are not merely well-directed films; there is a wry, disenchanted quality about them which betrays the presence behind the camera of an individual, a human being and a rather sensitive one."
Featured Works:
Presenting Lily Mars (Norman Taurog, 1943); Pushover (Richard Quine, 1954, pictured); Drive a Crooked Road (Richard Quine, 1954); My Sister Eileen (Richard Quine, 1955); The Solid Gold Cadillac (Richard Quine, 1956); Operation Mad Ball (Richard Quine, 1957); The Invisible Boy (Herman Hoffman, 1957); Bell, Book and Candle (Richard Quine, 1959); Strangers When We Meet (Richard Quine, 1960); The Notorious Landlady (Richard Quine, 1962); Robin and the Seven Hoods (Gordon Douglas, 1964)