It's Always Fair Weather

I just had my first look at this on DVD with it boasting a restored print and in widescreen CinemaScope. I had only seen this one other time, years ago on a formatted-to-TV VHS print. The visuals are much better,... Full review

Three Army buddies go their separate ways after they return home, but vow to meet at their local hangout in ten years to prove that they're still the best of buds. Doesn't turn out that way. They aren't the same... Full review

Keep in mind that the era of the movie musical was pretty much in the dust when IT'S ALWAYS FAIR WEATHER hit the screens in 1955. Yet the story is an odd hybrid for benign musicals, and a rather dark... Full review

I was fortunate enough to see this film on the huge screen at the restored deco Silver Theatre in Silver Spring, MD (now part of the AFI), so I took full advantage of the Technicolor & Cinemascope (especially the 2-3... Full review

A perfect antidote or bookend to ON THE TOWN this excellent, mature and solid cinemascope musical is an absolute knockout. Made by MGM to placate Kelly for refusing to loan him to Samuel Goldwyn for GUYS AND DOLLS this film... Full review

Just to add to the previous comments who all noted how good this bittersweet mature musical is- I think it just missed being a classic , in spite of all of its fine attributes, because its score is on the... Full review

Just an aside,really:You notice how sparsely Gene Kelly's finest numbers are shot? Long takes,little in the way of cinematic flair? Well,ponder this for a moment-he will often do something truly spectacular at the end of a take,leading one to wonder... Full review

It's Always Fair Weather has a somewhat ironic title, because it's not like most every other M-G-M musical in that things don't always turn out perfectly. I believe that its darker-than-average humour (for that time at least) contributed to its... Full review

engaging It's Always Fair Weather , which marked the third and final pairing of co-directors Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, whose previous efforts (first On the Town and then Singin' in the Rain ) have become legend.....The resulting film was the cynical....Donen, meanwhile, was reluctant to team with Kelly again, having by now struck out on his own with successful films like Royal Wedding .....The film's unique cynicism reflects the unhappy milieu from which it sprang..... ... Full Review

the amiable good humor.... ... Full Review

Even though It's Always Fair Weather , which is playing this week at The American Film Institute's Silver Theater as part of their Cyd Charisse tribute, opened to generally good reviews in 1955 and the witty screenplay by Betty Comden... ... Full Article

Cooked up by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, It's Always Fair Weather could well have been titled On the Town Ten Years Later. Like 1949's On the Town (also a Comden/Green collaboration), this MGM musical follows the exploits of three... ... Full Article