Singin' in the Rain - Wellington Film Society

Singin' in the Rain
Stanley Donen/Gene Kelly
USA
1952, G.

(In memory of Michael Thomas). 40th anniversary print.

In 1952, Sight & Sound polled the world's leading film critics to compile a list of the best films of all time. The magazine has repeated this poll every ten years, to show which films stand the test of time in the face of shifting critical opinion. The most recent, in 2002, was its largest poll to date. Included in the top ten was Singin' In the Rain, with this citation: "Impossible to watch without a smile on your face, this affectionate tribute to the glory days of Hollywood is pleasure distilled into 120 minutes. With Gene Kelly dance sequences that take your breath away and a great score by Brown and Freed, this is the film musical at its best." - Sight & Sound, 2002.

"Singin' in the Rain has been voted one of the greatest films of all time in international critics' polls, and is routinely called the greatest of all the Hollywood musicals. I don't think there's any doubt about that. Singin' in the Rain comes first because it is not only from Hollywood, it is about Hollywood. It is set at the moment in the late 1920s when the movies first started to talk, and many of its best gags involve technical details. A restored print of the movie, made from the original three-strip Technicolor process with its brilliant reds and yellows, is going into national release to celebrate its 40th anniversary. Looking at it again shows that the movie still has every ounce of its original charm, but then that didn't come as a surprise to me, since I've seen it at least once a year since the first time I saw it." - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

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