Moulin Rouge: La Goulue popular French club, Moulin Rouge. Their audience is reduced to silhouettes in order to focus attention on the performers and evoke the Japanese art then in vogue. The triple repetition of the club's name draws the focus down to the central figure of the poster, La Goulue herself. The stark white of her petticoats, depicted with just a few lines on the white paper, epitomizes Toulouse-Lautrec's boldly simplistic style, a sharp break from the text-heavy posters of the day. The Moulin Rouge had opened two years earlier, in 1889, and instantly established itself as a Montmartre landmark. It was renowned
Moulin Rouge (1952 film) he was taxed too much. "Moulin Rouge" received seven Academy Award nominations and won two: The film was not nominated for its color cinematography, which many critics found remarkable. Leonard Maltin, in his annual Movie and Video Guide declared: "If you can't catch this in color, skip it." The film received three BAFTA Nominations for The film won the Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer - Colette Marchand In an interview shortly after his successful film version of "Cabaret" opened, Bob Fosse acknowledged Huston's filming of the can-can in "Moulin Rouge" as being very influential on his own film