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“Cabaret” (1972) directed by Bob Fosse
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It is a fabulous film and cleverly charts the rise of fascism. Bob Fosse's choreography is great but what makes it for me are the songs, everyone forgets the great writing team Kander and Ebb.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kande...
^ The songs are indeed absolutely splendid
Just read the link Roisin - I had no idea about their other credits. What a talented team eh?
Hey Y'all - Nigeyb and Roisin I loved the movie Caberet since I was a little girl ! It is a definite classic ! As a little girl I used to sing the songs and dance in front of the mirror to the songs ! My Mama was always watching the old films and it was a ritual with us together . She would tell me old Hollywood stories about all of the stars that I still remember now about who was whose daughter and old scandalous stuff for those days ! It is all typical Hollywood now but to a wee girl I thought I was really hearing something I should not be hearing ! That is why I still love a good musical on film ! I loved and still do love Moulan Rouge ! Awesome ! That is one of the best in years ! What do you think? We just do not have musicals anymore in film !
Miss y'all ! So busy here right now . I hope to settle soon and catch up to all of you . I hope you are both well ! So much going on ! Please stay safe my dear friends . I do not agree with our US President right now and his crazy no action plans ! It makes me angry that he does not follow what the people of our country wish to do right now. We want to be united with the world and stand together as fingers on one hand to fight these barbaric uncivilized beings that keep attacking our way of living . I am ashamed that he will not step up and allow us to help more ! Congress is constantly fighting him and so are his military advisors . I stayed awake all night long the night Paris was hit And I stayed awake all last night when the football games were threatened and the French battled it out to capture those in that terrorist cell they found . I am so concerned because all in Europe are so close together and those barbaric people can escape and go from country to country so fast . Our time is coming next . I just want you to know my thoughts and prayers are with you all and I hope we have peace soon !
Live Free, Laugh, Love Peace and Hope and always Read ... Dawn
Roisin wrote: "It is a fabulous film....what makes it for me are the songs, everyone forgets the great writing team Kander and Ebb."Yes, yes, yes...!
Dawn wrote: "Hey Y'all - Nigeyb and Roisin I loved the movie Caberet since I was a little girl ! It is a definite classic ! As a little girl I used to sing the songs and dance in front of the mirror to the songs"
Thanks Dawn. Those songs are really strong and memorable.
By the by Roisin and Dawn I just can't get "Two Ladies" out of my head at the moment...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPOia...
Two Ladies - Joel Grey (Cabaret, 1972)
Hi Nigeyb and Dawn,Moulin Rouge, yes that was fun.
The song Two Ladies is very good, very funny.
Kander and Ebb are a wonderful writing team. They are interesting because they sometimes take difficult subjects and convey those stories in a great way through song. Sadly I missed the Scottsboro Boys show in London. I have seen Cabaret on the stage which was amazing.
Thought provoking stuff!
At the moment I am belting out "Mein Herr" when alone in the car....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfFWO...
Cabaret - Mein Herr (1972)
^ A great song to sing along to. Go on. Give it a try. The clip above has the lyrics too.
Nigeyb wrote: "At the moment I am belting out "Mein Herr" when alone in the car....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfFWO...
Cabaret - Mein Herr (1972)
^ A great song to sing along to. Go on. Give it a try...."
I still have a very scratched LP of the soundtrack to Cabaret that I used to play repeatedly and sing along to! My favourite as an angst-ridden teenager was 'Maybe This Time'.
I also used to wear black eyeliner and green nail varnish...
Ruth wrote: "My favourite as an angst-ridden teenager was 'Maybe This Time'. I also used to wear black eyeliner and green nail varnish... "
Classic stuff Ruth. Thanks.
Meant it is a beautiful song, quite moving too.As for the black eyeliner and green nail varnish, most of my friends still wear these 30 years on. : )
Meant it is a beautiful song, quite moving too.As for the black eyeliner and green nail varnish, most of my friends still wear these 30 years on. : )
Just have to say Liza Minelli is still a Class Act too over here ! Even though not seen much , She still has those legs ! Hahaha ! I will bet they are insured! Hahaha! ~ Dawn
She is or was a great singer. I don't think her health has been that great.
Maybe This Time has just been one of the songs they danced to on Strictly!
: )) I don't watch it. Who was dancing to it?
Anton du Beke and Katie Derham. She was very elegant but she was no Sally Bowles.
I have no idea who they are. : ) However, I will have a peak on iplayer.
A lot of fun for the participants. Quite nice routine. The song from Chicago, that routine was quite good and another Kander and Ebb show.
Ivan wrote: "It's one of my favorites films. But then everything connected with this - it's as if it's infiltrated my life - the original novel (and so many others by Isherwood), the play I Am a Camera, the musical, the book and film of Christopher and His Kind: A Memoir, 1929-1939 - there are only a few other works I can name that have become an almost integral part of who I am - at least on an artistic level. "^ Ivan's back. Xmas is complete.
I'm fairly sure I have seen this, but my memory for films is never very good. Isn't there a folk song which turns into a Nazi anthem?
Val wrote: "Isn't there a folk song which turns into a Nazi anthem? Yes indeed Val ...... Tomorrow Belongs To Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN7r0...
That is the image I remember from the film, thanks Nigey.
That scene is quite clever. A dog leaves down the aisle, possibly in disgust. There is an elderly man despairing while the younger Germans stand to attention to sing the song.
Has anyone heard of Anton Kuh? Clive James writes glowingly about him in Even As We Speak
Anton Kuh 'was one of the Viennese coffee-house wits whose mastery of the brief critical essay reached its apotheosis in the last nervous years before the Anschluss. He did bits and pieces: a parody here, a feuilleton there, a cabaret act around the next corner. Among his little triumphs was a prosodic analysis of Hitler's oratorical style that would have earned him the reward of death by torture if the Nazis had ever caught him.'
James continues about Anton Kuh, who just got out in the nick of time and left for New York where he died forgotten in 1940.
https://austrianresearchuk.wordpress....
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Kuh
“Cabaret” (1972)
I saw “Cabaret” (1972) a few times in the 1970s and loved it back then. I hadn’t seen it since. I’m delighted to report it was even better than I had remembered. I’m not really very keen on musicals however “Cabaret” is not a typical musical.
Sally Bowles was surely the role Liza Minelli was born to play and her performance of the title song is the very definition of show stopper. Despite it’s memorable tune, and apparently life reaffirming lyrics, it is really a defiant howl of despair as Germany slips into the ever tightening grip of Nazism.
The darkness of Nazism is brilliantly evoked through hints and vignettes that leaves the viewer in no doubt something very, very bad is in the air, The only song not sung in the Kit Kat Club is the chilling “Tomorrow Belongs To Me” where we see ordinary Germans gradually seduced by the movement’s twisted appeal.
And, of course, Joel Grey is endlessly compulsive as the leering, seedy master of ceremonies who keeps the mirth and merriment moving along no matter what may be happening elsewhere.
Completely brilliant.
5/5