Cabaret
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Movie Reviews of Cabaret
Movie Review: One great musical
Summary: 5 Stars
I had not seen "Cabaret" since it first came out, and so I wondered how it would survive after all this time. I need not have worried. It is a classic, with some truly shattering performances. Joel Grey is amazing as this kind of ambivalent court jester who comments on history, sociology and human foibles by his presentations in the Kit Kat Club. It is at the same time witty,decadent and horrific.It is one of those performances which one remembers through one's life, as is Liza Minelli's. If ever an Oscar was deserved it was this one. Ms Minelli manages to create in her rendering of Sally Bowles an image of the thirties and at the same time producing a person of depth with an underlying tragedy who gains our complete sympathy while we deplore her life style.It is a beautiful performance. I think if I was to produce a "must see" shortlist "Cabaret" would be right in there.Bob Fosse directed some wonderful, if disturbing , works of great power.Movie Review: Only the best
Summary: 5 Stars
I first saw Cabaret on Broadway in April 1968, wit the original Broadway Cast. I thought that it was fantastic. We talked about it for several days after seeing the production.We enjoyed the play so much that when the movie was released in 1972 we were in no hurry to see it knowing that it couldn�t compare with the play. After several friends encouraged us to see it we gave in, took a drive to the local multiplex, bought the tickets and reluctantly entered the darkened theater expecting to be proven right in that no movie could possible be better then the Broadway play. How wrong we were, the move was so far superior to the play it was like it was two different stories. Happily some of the songs that didn�t work on Broadway were left out and the movie cast did great credit to all of the music in the show. In my eyes nobody but Liza Minnelli could play Sally Bowes. Joel Gray was good on Broadway but he was fantastic in the movie.Movie Review: It was a fine affair but now it's over...
Summary: 5 Stars
I saw Cabaret after seeing the recent film version of Chicago, and though I expected another lavish Fosse fantasy, what I saw was a very different film altogether. Chicago is a glamorous, glorified portrait of decadence without consequence, but Cabaret reveals the garish, disappointing underside of it all. The girls, the costumes, even the orchestra is not exactly beautiful. But they are honest. This divine decadence is literally all smoke and mirrors, it is all gaudy makeup over a dirty and desperate Germany in 1931.
While I'm not a huge fan of Liza Minnelli, she is perfect as wild child Sally Bowles. Michael York is equally wonderful as the innocent and effeminate Brian Roberts. I kind of wished that the film explored the ambiguous sexuality of the characters more than it did, but given the time the film was released, it is remarkable that the film has the frankness that it does.
Movie Review: A product of an era - and a great one.
Summary: 5 Stars
An admirable, and incredibly hard hitting view of nazi Germany wrapped in a glossy layer of songs, spangles and slapstick. This was a breakthrough in so many ways - acknowledging the Holocaust, the horror for the everyday people of Germany, using satire and music to bring home a chilling message about the disintegration of social values. Then we also deal with homosexuality, drug use, abortion and many other 'tabu' subjects These were things Hollywood wasn't too keen to explore, so TEN stars for the groundbreaking this film achieved.
That said, I would encourage anyone to get to a live production. See the show as it was originally written (the film adaptation makes a completely different story really). It is a far more compelling, funny and then heart breaking experience. And not one that COULD be captured on film.
Two faces, same coin...
Movie Review: THE BEST
Summary: 5 Stars
As for musical-drama concerned... THIS IS IT! The producers of Chicago should have seen this(indeed they did - every major moment in that film is "stolen" from Cabaret) and put REAL musical stars in the film.When u have Joel and Liza u are not let down... I give flowergreetings to the entire cast and crew... The filmversion of Cabaret has a lot of "new songs"(Maybe This Time, Mein Herr, The Money Song) and the plot follows the 1955-movie "I AM A CAMERA" more than the stage musical. Since then; the Liza-songs have found themselves in numerous revivals of this stageplay since this 1972-masterpiece. The film is still frightening and raw......Trivia: The scene in which Liza meets Marisa they talk about diseases... On video, here in Europe at least, that was cut....