Cabaret
starring: Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem, Joel Grey, Fritz Wepper
directed by: Bob Fosse
directed by: Bob Fosse
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A FEMALE GIRLIE CLUB ENTERTAINER IN WEIMAR REPUBLIC ERA BERLIN ROMANCES TWO MEN WHILE THE NAZI PARTY RISES TO POWER AROUND THEM
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Winner of eight Academy Awards, including Best Director (Bob Fosse), Best Actress (Liza Minnelli), and Best Supporting Actor (Joel Grey), Cabaret would also have taken Best Picture if it hadn't been competing against The Godfather as the most acclaimed film of 1972. (Francis Ford Coppola would have to wait two years before winning Best Director, for The Godfather, Part II.)Brilliantly adapted from the acclaimed stage production, which was in turn inspired by Christopher Isherwood's Berlin Stories and the play and movie I Am a Camera, this remarkable musical turns the pre-war Berlin of 1931 into a sexually charged haven of decadence. Minnelli commands the screen as nightclub entertainer Sally Bowles, who radiantly goes on with the show as the Nazis rise to power, holding her many male admirers (including Michael York and Helmut Griem) at a distance that keeps her from having to bother with genuinely deep emotions. Joel Grey is the master of ceremonies at the Kit Kat Klub who will guarantee a great show night after night as a way of staving off the inevitable effects of war and dictatorship. They're all living in a morally ambiguous vacuum of desperate anxiety, determined to keep up appearances as the real world--the world outside the comfortable sanctuary of the cabaret--prepares for the nightmarish chaos of war. Director-choreographer Fosse achieves a finely tuned combination of devastating drama and ebullient entertainment, and the result is one of the most substantial screen musicals ever made. The dual-layered Special Edition widescreen DVD includes an exclusive 25th-anniversary documentary, Cabaret: A Legend in the Making, a 1972 promotional featurette, a photo gallery, production notes, the theatrical trailer, and more. --Jeff Shannon
A FEMALE GIRLIE CLUB ENTERTAINER IN WEIMAR REPUBLIC ERA BERLIN ROMANCES TWO MEN WHILE THE NAZI PARTY RISES TO POWER AROUND THEM
Amazon.com essential video:
Winner of eight Academy Awards, including Best Director (Bob Fosse), Best Actress (Liza Minnelli), and Best Supporting Actor (Joel Grey), Cabaret would also have taken Best Picture if it hadn't been competing against The Godfather as the most acclaimed film of 1972. (Francis Ford Coppola would have to wait two years before winning Best Director, for The Godfather, Part II.)Brilliantly adapted from the acclaimed stage production, which was in turn inspired by Christopher Isherwood's Berlin Stories and the play and movie I Am a Camera, this remarkable musical turns the pre-war Berlin of 1931 into a sexually charged haven of decadence. Minnelli commands the screen as nightclub entertainer Sally Bowles, who radiantly goes on with the show as the Nazis rise to power, holding her many male admirers (including Michael York and Helmut Griem) at a distance that keeps her from having to bother with genuinely deep emotions. Joel Grey is the master of ceremonies at the Kit Kat Klub who will guarantee a great show night after night as a way of staving off the inevitable effects of war and dictatorship. They're all living in a morally ambiguous vacuum of desperate anxiety, determined to keep up appearances as the real world--the world outside the comfortable sanctuary of the cabaret--prepares for the nightmarish chaos of war. Director-choreographer Fosse achieves a finely tuned combination of devastating drama and ebullient entertainment, and the result is one of the most substantial screen musicals ever made. The dual-layered Special Edition widescreen DVD includes an exclusive 25th-anniversary documentary, Cabaret: A Legend in the Making, a 1972 promotional featurette, a photo gallery, production notes, the theatrical trailer, and more. --Jeff Shannon
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- "Liza Becomes An Icon In This Film"
Before the release of "Cabaret", Liza Minnilli was known as a curisoity by the general public: people knew her as Judy Garland's daughter who had an impeccable voice with stage presence, but she wasn't known as her own person-she was attached to the image of a daughter of a showbiz legend. When "Cabaret" came out everything in Liza's life changed: she became her own person, well regarded by film and music critics as a wonderful entertainer who could hold her own on stage and in film. She became ... Read More
Rating: - Wilkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome...
Cabaret (Bob Fosse, 1972)
I watched Bob Fosse's Cabaret for the first time in almost thirty years last night, and what jumped out at me was the state of education in America today. Which doesn't make sense when you're talking about a film set in 1931 Germany, I grant you. But the first time I saw it, back in late 1980, I was in seventh grade, and it was shown in music class. Yes, a class of seventh-graders sat, quietly, spellbound, for two hours, watching Cabaret. Imagine if the movie ... Read More
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- Brilliant interpretation of pre-Nazi Berlin
I have heard of this film for ages but never got around to watching it. I'm glad I did though, if for no other reason that the music, which I enjoyed immensely. While capturing the decadence of Weimar Germany the director also, perhaps unwittingly, captured the backlash against such decadence of ordinary Germans when a Hitler Youth member begins to sing a patriotic song, "Tomorrow Belongs to Me," which brings everyone to their feet singing. People were tired of negativity and moral decay and wanted ... Read More
Rating: - best
this is hands down my favourite movie OF ALL TIME. i must add, i was not alive when it first came out, so it is not of my generation...but a good movie will be a good movie forever. and this certainly has stood the test of time.
it is absolutely the most well designed, well written, and well played piece of cinema i have ever ever ever seen. though originally adapted from the stage musical, it fleshes out a central story which makes its plot much less disjointed...a good number of songs ... Read More
Rating: - Fantastic
This is a great movie. And this is a good solid viewing version of it.AB
- "Liza Becomes An Icon In This Film"Before the release of "Cabaret", Liza Minnilli was known as a curisoity by the general public: people knew her as Judy Garland's daughter who had an impeccable voice with stage presence, but she wasn't known as her own person-she was attached to the image of a daughter of a showbiz legend. When "Cabaret" came out everything in Liza's life changed: she became her own person, well regarded by film and music critics as a wonderful entertainer who could hold her own on stage and in film. She became ... Read More
- Wilkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome...Cabaret (Bob Fosse, 1972)
I watched Bob Fosse's Cabaret for the first time in almost thirty years last night, and what jumped out at me was the state of education in America today. Which doesn't make sense when you're talking about a film set in 1931 Germany, I grant you. But the first time I saw it, back in late 1980, I was in seventh grade, and it was shown in music class. Yes, a class of seventh-graders sat, quietly, spellbound, for two hours, watching Cabaret. Imagine if the movie ... Read More
- Brilliant interpretation of pre-Nazi BerlinI have heard of this film for ages but never got around to watching it. I'm glad I did though, if for no other reason that the music, which I enjoyed immensely. While capturing the decadence of Weimar Germany the director also, perhaps unwittingly, captured the backlash against such decadence of ordinary Germans when a Hitler Youth member begins to sing a patriotic song, "Tomorrow Belongs to Me," which brings everyone to their feet singing. People were tired of negativity and moral decay and wanted ... Read More
- bestthis is hands down my favourite movie OF ALL TIME. i must add, i was not alive when it first came out, so it is not of my generation...but a good movie will be a good movie forever. and this certainly has stood the test of time.
it is absolutely the most well designed, well written, and well played piece of cinema i have ever ever ever seen. though originally adapted from the stage musical, it fleshes out a central story which makes its plot much less disjointed...a good number of songs ... Read More
- Fantastic This is a great movie. And this is a good solid viewing version of it.AB
