Cabaret - 30th Anniversary Special Edition DVD

Advantages: Well shot; dark; great songs; great performance by Liza Minelli; great special features
Disadvantages: Doesn't come cheap

...and fluffy stuff, think again! Cabaret the film is the result of a long evolutionary process, being loosely based on two short stories written in the 1930s by Christopher Isherwood, ‘Sally Bowles’ and ‘Goodbye to Berlin’. It then became a stage musical, with songs written by John Kander and Fred Ebb (who also wrote Chicago), and finally it made it onto the silver screen in 1972, courtesy of director Bob Fosse. However, compared ...
...Cabaret has a far darker, more sinister, sleazy tone. Cabaret is set against the backdrop of the rise of Nazi Germany and centres on the character of Sally Bowles (Liza Minelli), an American cabaret singer at the Kit Kat Klub. When Englishman Brian Roberts (Michael York), arrives in Berlin with the intention of teaching English, he encounters Sally while looking for a place to stay and rents a room in the same building. Despite the fact that Brian ... Read review

Advantages: Great singing and dancing
Disadvantages: Bonus footage is a little tedious

...this was Andrew is German, Cabaret is set in Berlin, its only £1.50. Cabaret was originally a collection of short stories by Christopher Isherwood. It was then produced as a play called 'I am Camera' then turned into a broadway musical where it was renamed 'Cabaret' and finally Bob Fosse brought it to the screen where it won eight Acadamy Awards. A very young Liza Minelli stars as 'Sally Bowles', an American who has moved to 1930s Berlin and is ...
...Subtitles Having never seen Cabaret before I was enthralled by the musical, mainly due to its serious undertones. Regarding Andrew, well it turns out this is his favourite musical ever it being the only musical he likes. He was very pleased that I had scoured the earth for this (!) so pleased in fact that he went and bought me a very expensive jewellery box. So now Im looking at the jewellery box feeling very guilty that I only spent £1.50............I ... Read review

Advantages: Different from other musicals.. and great songs!
Disadvantages: Quite dark in some places

...life of working in a cabaret bar and her life outside the cabaret in 1930's Berlin. It also deals with the rise of Nazism in Germany. An English scholar, Brian, comes to Berlin to teach English and moves in to one of the rooms in Sally Bowles' building. The two fall for each other but Sally is unfaithful, and we find out that Brian has also been unfaithful with the same man. Sally reveals that she is pregnant but she doesn't know who the father ...
...matter and he wants the baby no matter what, and says that she should come back to England with him. Sally realises she couldn't lead that kind of life and has an abortion. Then Brian leaves to go back to England and Sally stays Berlin. Great, great, great songs! And Liza Minelli's acting in this is well deserving of her Oscar win of best actress in a leading role. The choreography is also brilliant, I really enjoyed watching the performances in ... Read review