I'm looking for musicals
MOHABBATEIN (2000) is a good place to start with Bollywood movies. Lots of elaborate musical numbers featuring attractive young men and women and intricate group choreography. It reminded me of all kinds of Hollywood movies (GREASE, WEST SIDE STORY, BYE BYE BIRDIE, etc.).
Elvis Presley: VIVA LAS VEGAS is the best musical he did and one of the few in which he has a female star who’s also a musical performer and treated as a true musical co-star…Ann-Margret.
I enjoy a good musical now and again, here’s some of my favorites and a few I want to see sometime in the future.
Singin’ in the Rain
Meet Me in St. Louis
The Band Wagon
A Star Is Born
Love Me Tonight
Swing Time
It’s Always Fair Weather
An American in Paris
The Red Shoes (not technically a musical, but the ballet sequence is amazing)
Gold Diggers of 1933
Pyaasa
Awaara
Le Million
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Cabaret
West Side Story
Hope this helps a bit.
I’m a big fan of One From the Heart (in a minority there, I reckon). Looking at the still of that video above: did Cameron steal that look for a certain blockbuster?
Bump to a delightfully extensive musical thread and we can offer some more non-American film challenges, from India to even Russia.
(Demy seems to have conquered everyone’s hearts but Donkey Skin is impeccable!)
I haven’t seen many, but my favourites so far are;
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
West Side Story
The Wicker Man (yes it’s a musical!)
Dancer in the Dark
Meet Me in St Louis
the films of guru dutt neo realist ,social conscience bollywood
I liked Bjork’s performance when she wasn’t singing. One or two of those songs made me want to hang myself.
My favorite musicals:
The Blues Brothers
Popeye
Once
Little Shop of Horrors
South Park
And how can everyone forget The Rocky Horror Picture Show?
Bjork’s performance in Dancer in the Dark might be my favourite performance of the 21st century. And her singing is amazing Hou, and you know it is! :P
That does mean von Trier directed my favourite performance of the noughties AND the nineties though! (for the record Emily Watson in Breaking the Waves – best performance I have ever seen!)
Tim Burton’s SWEENEY TODD is the most intelligent live action musical of recent decades.
I’ll add:
PENNIES FROM HEAVEN (Ross’ adaptation of the Dennis Potter television series)
HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (until that unfortunate ending)
SOUTH PARK: BIGGER LONGER AND UNCUT
LOVE ME TONIGHT — lovely, even if I can’t believe anyone would notice Jeanette McDonald when Myrna Loy is in the room.
KISS ME KATE — well, the songs anyway, especially those involving Ann Miller.
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I was thinking about Pennies From Heaven but it’s been too long since I’ve seen it.
Cecil—I actually had to fast forward through two of her songs. But her performance was otherwise brilliant. And I do agree about Watson.
Has anyone seen Kubanskie kazaki (1949)? It’s a Russian propaganda musical that Stalin loved, supposedly.
L’une chante, l’autre pas (One Sings, the Other Doesn’t) – Agnes Varda
Chasing butterflies, i love you for putting Varda & Resnais.
While we’re talking about french musicals… Les chansons d’amour, by Christophe Honoré, is, in my opinion, a very good musical, even though it is not really one because the actors are not dancing, i stil think it is because stuffs seems to be choregraphies (i’m think about the final scene, for example) and the actors are performing the songs. (Which are well written by Alex Beaupain).
Even though it’s not a really good movie, and not a real musical too, Claude lelouch’s Les parisiens is fine. The singing parts are great and the songs are really really good. (the lyrics especially, written by Boris Bergman, who’s been Alain Bashung’s lyric writer for a very very long time). And you just have to fall in love with songs like “Crépuscule sur le Boulevard” (means Sunset on the Boulevard) because it is obvious that this song is named after Billy Wilder’s Sunset blvd.
And, i’ve seen on some previous posts people talking about Les parapluies de Cherbourg, a very good musical, but nothing about Les Demoiselles de Rocherfort, which is a great Jacques Demy musical too.
I don’t think there are any Musical lists yet. I may have to remedy this!
Without a doubt Singin’ in the Rain is the best one to see…if you haven’t, amazing film!!
Les Chansons d’amour
The Wayward Cloud
8 femmes
Guillaume Lauras