Advantages: excellent music, Disadvantages: cant find any but let me know if you find any
...to be a fan of pink floyd but it sure does help i also bought my dad this movie and he loved it as well as we both love pink floyd.The main story behind this movie is a burnt out rock star sitting silently in his hotel room awaiting the night's show. On the verge of a mental break down, he spirals into a drug-induced vortex of memories, premonitions and nightmares.Pink's madness is illustrated with living flashbacks of his life... He has visions ... ...as pink , final word from me on this film is you have too see it even if your not a pink floyd fan but i suspect by the end of the film you will grow to love pink floyd and want to watch it over and over again ...
Advantages: This will make you smile, and cry. Disadvantages: you will get sick of it after 1000 plays.
...and sat with her through the entire movie.
I have to admit this re-release of the classic is so much better on dvd. You get surround sound to "the hills are alive with music". The picture is sharper and with subtitles on you can use it for kareoke! - final I can sing "do ray me" backwards.
If you like any Juile andrew movies this has got to be a must, the singing is supurb, being one of the best musical films ever made.
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Advantages: A star - studded cast, value for money format. Disadvantages: ?
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***THE STORY***
Cabaret brings 1931 Berlin (The Weimer Republic era) to life inside and outside the Kit Kat club ( A female girlie club). Starry eyed American Sally Bowles romances 2 men while the Nazi party rises to power to become a brutal force in the streets outside. Whilst inside impish "emcee" (Joel Grey) and Sally sound the call for decadent fun. Into this world comes British language teacher (Michael York) who falls for Sally's charm ... ...***MY OPINION***
Cabaret is more than a musical, it is a tough, satirical, acrid and provoking show, I found it racy and very sexy. As a background to the entertainment some insights into life in pre Nazi Germany as the Nazi party rise to power. An eerie, glowing tinderbox full of grinning souls and desperate laughter. I really enjoyed it and will probably watch the DVD again. The central characters are well played by York, Minnelli and Grey. York ...
JeffreyB 31.12.2005 ·Read full review
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Review of Cabaret (DVD)
Advantages: A great musical for the family Disadvantages: Eliza's screech!!!!!!!!!
My Fair Lady is a musical that I really love to watch. It was produced in 1964 and stars Audrey Hepburn in the lead role of Eliza Doolittle but is still an enjoyable watch today. My Fair Lady is quite simply a rags to riches story whereby Eliza Doolittle, a cockney flower girl, is spotted by the supremely assured phoneticist Henry Higgins. The reason behind his noticing of her is her somewhat coarse cockney accent, which does raise quite a few laughs ... ...adds a certain something but my favourite songs simply have to be "Why can't the English?" and "Wouldn't it be Loverly", which are performed right at the beginning of the film. My reasoning for this is that these two musical performances showcase the differences between the speech of the two lead characters in a humorous and quite frankly brilliant way. Of Course the cast itself are also very important and again seem to have been superbly picked ...
Advantages: Fantastic dance scenes. Disadvantages: Some of the music
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I would like to say this is a modern day Romeo and Juliet and I suppose it is, if you think back to when Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet, but in fact the film is now 44 years old and it was nominated for 11 Oscars which it won 10 of. West Side Story (Stage show), premiered at the Rivoli Theatre in New York in 1957, where it had a very successful run of 77 weeks. After its successful time on the stage, the movie went into ... ...be the Golden Anniversary of West Side Story and I should imagine they will re-release a special edition to celebrate it. Originally the movie version was only going to take 3 weeks to make, but instead it took months and Premiered in October 1961. Why did it take so long, well, Jerome Robbins who was one of the two directors on the movie, was a perfectionist when it came to the dance routines, he pushed all the cast beyond their own expectations ...
