Monday
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And now presenting the Cabaret girls...
Monday, July 30, 2018 at 1:31AM 
...each and every one a wirgin.
Life is a CABARET is life, old chums.
A three day retrospective at The Film Experience (Aug 1st-3rd)
Monday, July 30, 2018 at 1:31AM
Reader Comments (18)
YES! I won a cabaret DVD a few years ago from TFE and this happens right when I get home from a long trip away. Perfect way to spend August!
Can't wait! Love it.
now we're talking about a musical that deserves multiple posts - not that mamma mia thing :)
divine decadence! my favourite film!
@ cal roth, Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again > Cabaret. Someone here needs to tell the truth.
One of the best movie musicals ever made.
Cabaret is certainly one of the greatest musicals ever, but one thing hasn't aged well. It certainly was a shock at the time to actually see gay/bisexual/transvestite characters in a mainstream Hollywood movie, especially a musical, which had for too long had become wholesome "family" entertainment. But what dates it somewhat is its tourist-y "gawk at the freaks" attitude, and the self-congratulatory air of being naughty (but not too naughty - we don't even see Helmut Griem and Michael York doing anything), things that, thank heavens, can now be treated as casually as they should. Just remember, this was the same year as Pink Flamingos.
Scratch Helmut Griem. I meant Fritz Wepper, o' course
Yay!
Ugh. At the risk of boring everybody to death, now find out it was Helmut Griem after all, so ignore the first correction.
One of my favorite films ever. Watched it when I was like 15 and felt like, finally... a movie really got me. lol. So dark, so gay, so tragic. Liza is so great in this, so is Joel. Everyone really. And Marisa Berenson should've been nominated too.
Sign me in, old chum.
Ohhh, I want a table right up front for this retrospective. Dare I say, Fosse made the movie better than the original stage musical.
The presentation itself is a wonderful and exciting show! I cannot miss out such a performance!
Tom M - I really think he did.
about as fatale as an after-dinner mint!
Oh! Now that is a great musical. Wilkommen, bienevue.
Whenever I see a modern musical film I imagine how it would have been done in the old studios system (technicolor, matte painting, anacronic marvelous costumes/art directon, all that), like Fiddler On The Roof released in 1971, for example. Impossible to be done with Cabaret. The Bob Fosse masterpiece only works in this dark decade where you can barely see the actors eyes or face, everybody seems so hopeless dressing brown or grey and the make up seems always out of place - and visually they don't treat fairly the actresses, even the gorgeous actresses like Faye Dunaway or Jane Fonda. And the incredible Liza Minnelli - she, like Streisand and Streep are stars of the new times. You can't imagine them pairing up with Gable, Grant or Cooper. In that b&w world or technicolored beautifully fake world. You can try but doesn't work. They are like us. They are real.