Cabaret
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Movie Reviews of Cabaret
Movie Review: Weimar Republicans
Summary: 5 Stars
Of course I hate musicals (it's a guy thing; you wouldn't understand) but the musical Cabaret is my favorite film. It nearly tells us how ordinary Germans let Hitler happen.
Among other miseries, democracy gave post-WWI Germany Liza Minnelli & the Kit Kat Cabaret, emblematic of a nation that lost its way and lost its honor. Cabaret, the symbol and the film, is a swamp and cesspool of decadence and decline. Minnelli is perfectly cloying and annoying, someone who counterfeits the act of acting in a movie that's about the sick surface of things. All ze girls are beautiful, except Minnelli. Joel Grey is beautiful, a mascara'd marriage of Goebbels and Mapplethorpe. Everything here is beautiful in its own way if beauty and purpose are discounted as uncounted casualties of blood, iron, vomit, poison, trenches, and lost war. Inside the Cabaret everything is beautiful, dark, and sick; a democratic republic is eating itself, ripping itself apart.
Then in a magic moment the din and the sin are gone. Outside, at a biergarten very far from Minnelli and Grey, there is sunlight and pure song. Ordinary, defeated, torpid Germans hear and glimpse renewal: a blond boy, ultimate-Aryan blond, singing at first alone and then with dozens and then hundreds as the camera pans down from his blindingly blond head to the red-and-black banner on his arm. And tomorrow belongs, and tomorrow belongs to me.
Movie Review: Don't remake Cabaret!
Summary: 5 Stars
I remember when they bring Cabaret to Broadway or the West End like they recycle musicals but to me, Cabaret with Liza Minnelli and Joel Grey are the epitome of perfection in the film. You don't mess with perfection or come close to it with these two brilliant performers on stage. Liza gave the role of a lifetime as Sally Bowles, a London singer, who they Americanize her in this film. Fine because it works and nobody sings or belts out the songs better than Liza does. In this film, it is dark Berlin where Nazism and anti-Semitism is on the rise since World War I has ended leaving Germany to pay for it and the onset of World War II. The chilling scenes of Nazism and the rise of it's evil power is done simply in the song, "Tomorrow Belongs to Me," with the unsuspecting Germans not realizing about the true meaning of the song. Sally Bowles has led quite sad life despite her upbeat personality. I don't think Liza ever played a role as suitable or close to her personality as Sally Bowles. Liza is not just Judy's daughter but Liza Minnelli is her own person. She can make you cry and laugh with one breath and you want more. The ending is somewhat vague as if it presents what will come to Germany. I get shivers and chills down my spine when the music has ended and the film is done as if knowing what lies head isn't horrifying enough.Movie Review: Steaming hot 33 years on!
Summary: 5 Stars
This really is an incredible film which manages to capture the decadant permissiveness of Berlin and it's cultural diversity, leading as it inevitably does, to the raise of facism.
The songs march from fun to anxiety, the dance numbers are tight, clipped, toned and fascinating and stamped indelibly with the Fosse seal. Minnelli is frothy and energeticly in denial of reality and real emotion, York is stifled, stumbling and yet intellectual aware while Gray guides us through the path of decadance he embodies so well for Berlin of the 1920's, while steering us to sights and sounds we fail to be aware of amidst the fun. His over painted face belies the truth of the misery ahead but he slips out titbits for those brave or wise enough to take.
There are stunning and graphic scenes of the horrors of war and nazism brought to us through the eyes of artists and bohemians from many genres who actually witnessed the change in Berlin.
The opening number includes an exact recreation of a famous Otto Dix potrait, hidden amongst the audience.
Steamy, sexy, glossy, full of energy and yet menacingly
forboding. Says more about the real cost of dictatorship than any straight war film I have ever seen. Brilliant and classic!
Movie Review: One of the greatest films of all time.
Summary: 5 Stars
Hands down, this is my favorite musical film (and I love musical films). Christopher Isherwood's autobiographical "Berlin Stories" were adapted for the stage by John Van Druten as "I Am a Camera" and then as a musical by Hal Prince-John Kander-Fred Ebb-Joe Masteroff. When the musical finally brought to the screen in 1972 by dance master Bob Fosse, you might have thought the material would have been exhausted. Think again. Bob Fosse was a genius. His direction is absolutely inspired (so good that he won the Oscar). Jay Presson Allen's screenplay is a marvel - Isherwood couldn't have asked for a more faithful adaptation. Every detail - art direction, sound, costumes, photography and film editing are superb. Liza Minnelli (so wonderful in "The Sterile Cuckoo") won the Oscar for Best Actress. Joel Grey likewise won the Oscar (he also won the Tony for the same role). Michael York's performance is perfection. The question of his character's homosexualty is breathtaking in it's honesty (especially for 1972), and who wouldn't fall in love with York - he's unbelievably pretty. I love every frame of this brazen and original film musical.Movie Review: Wow
Summary: 5 Stars
When I first saw this musical in my 10th grade english class as part of our american film unit, I was somewhat reluctant towards liking this movie. We ended up watching it again and evaluating it closer in order to really hit on the topics in the movie. After seeing it for the second time the movie started to stick with me. The continuous replay of the movie in my mind forced me to buy the DVD. While I watched it again I realized what a great piece of art this is. The movie shows one of the most troubled times in the world, and teaches us how to better ourselves from such a tradjedy. Each musical number is perfectly placed in order to build character developement and move the plot along. There are so many non-narritive elements in the movie that create a clear viewing of the true characters. This is truly a great american classic. You gain so much more out of watching this video than just a 2 hour enjoyment spree. Every part of the movie is perfectly crafted in order to develope the stories morals. I cannot speak enough about this movie. I believe everyone should see this movie.