Moses und Aron
Danièle Huillet’s and Jean-Marie Straub’s Moses und Aron (1975) is the duo’s dialectical masterpiece. Their joint career was spent exploring the limitations of the cinema and mapping out its possibilities…. Read more »
Tag: musical
Autumn Girl
Katarzyna Klimkiewicz’s Autumn Girl (2021) is an imagined week in the life of the legendary Polish actress and cabaret singer Kalina Jędrusik (Maria Dębska). Though set in the early sixties,… Read more »
Son Of Dracula
Legend has it that in 1972 Ringo Starr called up his friend Harry Nilsson and pitched him the idea of doing a musical film that spoofed the Universal Monster movies… Read more »
Neptune’s Daughter
Neptune’s Daughter (1949) is a technicolor musical from MGM starring the inimitable Esther Williams. Neptune’s Daughter re-teamed MGM’s “Million Dollar Mermaid” with leading men Red Skelton and Ricardo Montalban along… Read more »
Tick, Tick… Boom!
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s film Tick, Tick… Boom! (2021) is an adaptation of David Auburn’s adaptation of Jonathan Lason’s stage musical of the same name. Miranda’s debut is about what one would… Read more »
Texas Carnival
Texas Carnival (1951) is another in the cycle of comedy musicals Esther Williams made at MGM. This would be her third film playing opposite of MGM funny man Red Skelton…. Read more »
The Smiling Lieutenant
The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) is one of Ernst Lubitsch’s most important pre-code operetta films because it marks the beginning of his collaboration with Miriam Hopkins. While Hopkins is very good… Read more »
Human Highway
Against the backdrop of imminent nuclear war with Russia, on a lonely stretch of road by a nuclear power plant there sits a quiet diner and gas station. In this… Read more »
Du Barry Was A Lady
Arthur Freed’s production of Du Barry Was A Lady (1943) reimagines the Cole Porter musical of the same name as a vaudeville variety show meant to showcase the talents under… Read more »
High Society
Before working at MGM, beginning in 1943, Charles Walters was one of the leading choreographers on Broadway. He had a good working relationship with Cole Porter which made him a… Read more »
