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Best Movie Musicals

Posted: 10/4/06 at 12:13am

I'm doing a project in my film studies class right now, and i'm looking for really good musicals to show parts of. Any suggestions?

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Updated On: 10/4/06 at 12:13 AM

re: Best Movie Musicals

Posted: 10/4/06 at 2:00am

Singing in the Rain
Oliver
Sound of Music
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
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re: Best Movie Musicals

Posted: 10/4/06 at 2:11am

Cabaret
Hair
Oliver!
The Sound of Music
1776
West Side Story
My Fair Lady
The King and I

The best.

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re: Best Movie Musicals

Posted: 10/4/06 at 3:15am

I think it's fair game to include any that won Best Picture or were nominated for Best Picture (so add Chicago, Gigi, An American in Paris, Moulin Rouge, etc.)

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re: Best Movie Musicals

Posted: 10/4/06 at 3:16am

Don't know if it's the best, but I love An American in Paris.

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re: Best Movie Musicals

Posted: 10/4/06 at 3:30am

I would also like to add "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" to the group

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re: Best Movie Musicals

Posted: 10/4/06 at 3:44am

Hedwig is DEF worth mentioning, and I would also want to add Dancer in the Dark.

And, imho, Evita had something to do with the resurgence of musical theatre on film---Moulin Rouge gets the credit.

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re: Best Movie Musicals

Posted: 10/4/06 at 4:20am

Then there's my favorite movie of all time, which for some reason totally escaped me before: All That Jazz. Brilliant film.

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#10

re: Best Movie Musicals

Posted: 10/4/06 at 7:23am

"Star Struck". "This is Spinal Tap". "Can't stop the Music".

#11

re: Best Movie Musicals

Posted: 10/4/06 at 8:30am

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

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#12

There is the perfection of THE SOUND OF MUSIC, WEST SIDE STORY, THE MUSIC MAN and MARY POPPINS. Everything else is inferior. No matter what AFI or some other trumped-up pannel of "expertts" says. Doesn't mean there aren't some entertaining films among the others.

#13

re: Best Movie Musicals

Posted: 10/4/06 at 8:43am

Wow... four good ones and the rest are crap?

Nice philosophy.

I don't agree with that at all.

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#14

re: Best Movie Musicals

Posted: 10/4/06 at 12:59pm

I don't agree with it, either. That isn't what I said.

#15

re: Best Movie Musicals

Posted: 10/4/06 at 1:54pm

There is an AFI list somewhere. "Meet Me in St. Luis" is one of my personal favorites. The film is just stunning, the camera just loves Judy.

#16

re: Best Movie Musicals

Posted: 10/4/06 at 9:06pm

Wizard of Oz
The Band Wagon
Good News
Kiss Me Kate
Showboat
Oklahoma
My Fair Lady
Oliver

Maybe not the best, but ones I enjoy

#17

re: Best Movie Musicals

Posted: 10/4/06 at 10:15pm

West Side Story.

#18

re: Best Movie Musicals

Posted: 10/5/06 at 1:44am

West Side Story and My Fair Lady

And hell, why not Reefer Madness? It's a new classic.

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