That's "Ain't There Anyone Here For Love?," actually.Quoting Mara (view post)
I, too, watch musicals.
EDIT: And here you go.
That's "Ain't There Anyone Here For Love?," actually.Quoting Mara (view post)
I, too, watch musicals.
EDIT: And here you go.
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Thor: The Dark World (2013) **½
The Counselor (2013) *½
Walden (1969) ***
A Hijacking (2012) ***½
Before Midnight (2013) ***
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To answer the other half of your question, the film is Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.Quoting transmogrifier (view post)
Cheers, I ask because I remember liking that sequence, though I've only seen it once.
And Mara, I'm a musical fan myself, though I'm more of a sucker for well-done dance set-pieces.
I don't like movies where all lines are sung however - at all. Probably my least favorite cinematic conceit ever.
After watching it again last night, I must submit:
"Thank You Very Much" - Scrooge!
Coming to America (Landis, 1988) **
The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) *1/2
Us (Peele, 2019) ***1/2
Fugue (Smoczynska, 2018) ***1/2
Prisoners (Villeneuve, 2013) ***1/2
Shadow (Zhang, 2018) ***
Oslo, August 31st (J. Trier, 2011) ****
Climax (Noé, 2018) **1/2
Fighting With My Family (Merchant, 2019) **
Upstream Color (Carruth, 2013) ***
That's really weird.Quoting transmogrifier (view post)
Coming to America (Landis, 1988) **
The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) *1/2
Us (Peele, 2019) ***1/2
Fugue (Smoczynska, 2018) ***1/2
Prisoners (Villeneuve, 2013) ***1/2
Shadow (Zhang, 2018) ***
Oslo, August 31st (J. Trier, 2011) ****
Climax (Noé, 2018) **1/2
Fighting With My Family (Merchant, 2019) **
Upstream Color (Carruth, 2013) ***
"No Strings" from Top Hat, where Fred Astaire wakes up/pisses off Ginger Rogers.
The opening of Love Me Tonight. Sounds of the city of the city become music. I assume this was a major inspiration for the factory song in Dancer in the Dark.
I don't know why - the thought of having to sit through Evita or The Umbrellas of Cherbourg again sends chills down my spine.Quoting Spinal (view post)
I almost forgot all about this great number: Hey Boy, Hey Boy from the no-budget sci-fi cult classic, The American Astronaut.
Check it out! Yeah, I'm all about these weird "flying-under-the-radar" musical numbers. But, Hey! somebody's got to do it.
Oh yeah
Skid Row - Little Shop of Horrors
Dentist Song - Little Shop of Horrors
I don't know about "best," but an all-time favorite is the barn dance sequence from Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. You can catch the action here.
Watch it all the way through... it escalates.
Little Shop of Horrors is fantastic. I would have to add Suddenly Seymour and Somewhere That's Green as can't miss.Quoting transmogrifier (view post)
Ellen Green =
Oh, I should've mentioned this one! It's awesome.Quoting Mara (view post)
Also, Russ, good call on "I Love You." While most any sequence from Katakuris deserves a place here in my book, that's probably the one I'd put forward.
I knew you'd know this one. You can't escape your past, Sycophant, it will always catch up with you.Quoting Sycophant (view post)
Another great is Mein Herr from Cabaret.
That's a really good scene.Quoting transmogrifier (view post)
Robert Wise does a hell of a lot with his musical numbers in West Side Story, if memory serves me right. I remember being particularly taken with his camera maneuvering in the "I Feel Pretty" scene.
The Act of Killing (Oppenheimer 13) - A
Stranger by the Lake (Giraudie 12) - B
American Hustle (Russell 13) - C+
The Wolf of Wall Street (Scorsese 13) - C+
Passion (De Palma 12) - B
Oh yeah, Little Shop of Horrors.
Suddenly Seymour
EDIT: I see Mara already has this covered. Oh well, worth mentioning twice.
Recently Viewed:
Thor: The Dark World (2013) **½
The Counselor (2013) *½
Walden (1969) ***
A Hijacking (2012) ***½
Before Midnight (2013) ***
Films By Year
I have a soft spot for Danny Boyle's A Life Less Ordinary, even if it is kind of a mess with an awful lot of horribly miscast Cameron Diaz packed in. The highlight of the whole thing might be the completely out of left field Beyond the Sea duet Diaz and Ewan McGregor perform somewhere in the middle of the film. Not as nice out-of-context, but still pretty darn sweet
"On the Street Where You Live" - My Fair Lady
I think I've only seen one movie where this is the case, and it is awesome.Quoting transmogrifier (view post)
That's a good one, should try to watch it again this Christmas - you haven't seen The Umbrellas of Cherbourg?Quoting Antoine (view post)
With all of the great musicals I've seen, I don't know why the first film I thought of was Dancer in the Dark. I especially like the number set in the factory.Quoting soitgoes... (view post)
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It's like, how much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None more black.
The last ten minutes of Happy Feet - the whole "tap vs. chant" sequence, the "communication" sequence, and so on. The "Boogie Wonderland" sequence deserves some mention, as well.
Also --
While the film itself is pretty subpar, 1989's Tap is really an excuse to get every one of the Elders of Tap together in one room, along with Gregory Hines - and, it is glorious. You've got your Jimmy Slyde, your Sandman Sims, your Bunny Coles, your Sammy Davis, your Fayard Nicholas, and one of the Condos Brothers, to boot. And, even a young Savion Glover, here and there.
Speaking of Hines, that scene with him and Barishnakov in White Nights comes to mind.