Friday
Dec022011
"even the orchestra is beautiful..."
Friday, December 2, 2011 at 12:28PM ♪ Leave your troubles outside.
So life is disappointing? forget it.
In here life is beautiful...
The girls are beautiful...
EVEN THE ORCHESTRA IS BEAUTIFUL...
tagged Cabaret, Joel Grey, Muppets, Oscars (70s), musicals
Cabaret, Joel Grey, Muppets, Oscars (70s), musicals
Reader Comments (11)
OMG - the new banner and Welcome photos are A+. (Liza at her best.)
CABARET! Joel Grey. So much love for that movie. And that song. It tells us all we need to know about that character in less than 2-3 minutes. A brilliant, Oscar-winning supporting performance.
OMFG ONE OF THE MOST AMAZING MOVIES I'VE EVER SEEN!!!! One of my favorites.
It really spoke to me, especially as a gay kid going through troubles with that and what it had to say about sexuality and outcasts and art and passion. It was so dark and beautiful. Sally Bowles was so depressingly desperate that she would give up anything for her career and desire to be in the spotlight. The acting from everyone is brilliant too. I just love this movie so much.
The best film adaptation of a broadway musical ever IMHO. Why? Because it transcends it's own musical beginnings and becomes so much it's own creature. "Cabaret" continues to resonate and get referenced so often throughout pop culture and film.
LOOOOOOVE!!!
I declared this december to be Musical December and made big plans of rewatching all of my musical dvds, and it doesn't matter at all that I may have seen 'Cabaret' twice this year already. New Year's Eve will have the big finale with a Julie Andrews night. Cheers!
I just saw Cabaret in the theatre (in Hungary) for the 2nd time in a row with an awesome cast, especially the actor in Joel Grey's role. Love, love, love this musical! The film is so great, and this first song gives me goosebumps and makes me want to dance every time I hear it. Brilliant! :))
You put Barbara Jean on the banner! I f'ing love you.
Agree with Paul - and nearly everything everybody's already said. I love Eva's idea of Musical December - I had my junkie run back in August or September. I watched Cabaret (on DVD) for the first time then - and can't believe I waited so long. A stunner. I didn't always believe Liza (in that she was playing "LIza") but she did so brilliantly within the context, and Michael York's performance I think is very much overlooked and underappreciated. And the sophisticated way they dealt with the sexual themes made today's movies look like sniggering adolescents in comparison. God, I miss truly adult movies. (Watching it was interesting too because I finally got to see those references you made to it in your Moulin Rouge essay years ago Nat, and it all made sense.)
Joel V - on one of the featurettes that accompanied the movie on the DVD, they mentioned that Fosse was not directly "remaking" the play but wanted to go back to the source material as his starting point. (I've not seen the stage play so I don't know how much made the transition from stage to screen).
It occurs to me now that one of the things I loved about getting DVD's (and miss now that we only do instant streaming on Netflix - we had to make a decision thanks to the cost increase), was the featurettes on the classic films. (The interviews that accompanied the DVD of The Way We Were, for instance, proved to be very informative in terms of the process - and the personal politics behind the camera.)
And yes, great banner.
Is it blasphemous to love Alan Cumming's vocal intonations of Cabaret's songs more than Joel Grey's? I just can't come around on Grey's performance anymore after seeing Alan Cumming in the revival.
jtagliere -- Cumming was indeed genius but it's okay to love both ;)