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Groundbreaking Films
#25re: Groundbreaking Films
Posted: 1/14/08 at 2:11am
I have always wanted to see SALO. Unfortunately, it's not available on DVD.
Most of the obvious ones have been said. I will add GONE WITH THE WIND.
What about SCHINDLER'S LIST?
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
#26re: Groundbreaking Films
Posted: 1/14/08 at 1:23pm
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
RetroBoy
Broadway Star Joined: 10/1/07
#27re: Groundbreaking Films
Posted: 1/14/08 at 2:01pm
Liverpool, you need to stop coming across as a bitter, frustrated, maladjusted individual. My question was not directed at you.
What are you going to do next, tell me to kill myself?
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
RetroBoy
Broadway Star Joined: 10/1/07
#29re: Groundbreaking Films
Posted: 1/14/08 at 2:08pmPhyllis your picture isn't coming through on your post.
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#30re: Groundbreaking Films
Posted: 1/14/08 at 2:11pm
There it is.
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
“I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>>
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RetroBoy
Broadway Star Joined: 10/1/07
#31re: Groundbreaking Films
Posted: 1/14/08 at 2:13pm
damn! that picture post is big i can see midler's pores in it.
love that movie though, but again i have to ask, how was it groundbreaking?
roquat
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/25/05
#32re: Groundbreaking Films
Posted: 1/14/08 at 2:49pm
CABARET. One of the first (and few) movie musicals to use the songs to comment on the story, in a satiric and Brechtian manner. It revived movie musicals, making them seem sharp and contemporary and even dangerous again; it cleared away the stale old "organic" Rodgers and Hammerstein tradition ("It was as if there were something the matter with song and dance, as if they had to be excused by being worked into 'a life situation' or one of those damn dream ballets"--Pauline Kael) and it introduced the world to Liza Minnelli's gargantuan talent. There would have been no CHICAGO without it.
I'd also say PENNIES FROM HEAVEN, which was an much more ambitious attempt at the same style, although it failed commercially. It's amazing.
I ask in all honesty/What would life be?/Without a song and a dance, what are we?/So I say "Thank you for the music/For giving it to me."
RetroBoy
Broadway Star Joined: 10/1/07
#33re: Groundbreaking Films
Posted: 1/14/08 at 3:01pmI agree with most of your thoughts on CABARET except that the world was already aware of Liza Minnelli's gargantuan talent prior to her turn as "Sally Bowles" in CABARET. She had already made numerous appearances on her mother's television show, she got got acclaim for her role in FLORA THE RED MENACE and already was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for her role of "Pookie Adams" in THE STERILE CUCKOO. If anything CABARET and her Oscar win just solidified her status.
#34re: Groundbreaking Films
Posted: 1/14/08 at 3:30pmmunkustrap178, Salo was released by Criterion and while they don't sell it anymore you can get used copies of it from Amazon.com but I think they're $35 at the least.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#36re: Groundbreaking Films
Posted: 1/14/08 at 4:02pm
I've seen SALO in French....it's uh...yeah....
I was going to say JAWS as well, but beaten to the punch.
I'd add:
PSYCHO: Story structure, marketing campaign
OF HUMAN BONDAGE: Bette throws vanity out the door and paves the way for actresses playing unsympathetic, "ugly" roles
DR. STRANGELOVE: Black humor meets political satire...and unlike THE GREAT DICTATOR, this time, WE are the villains
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