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Post by roverpup on May 3, 2018 15:50:01 GMT
Sound of Music is one of the few film musicals that I can say I like (Wizard of Oz and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum being the others on this very short list). When we were in Vienna Austria they played Sound of Music 24/7 on the hotel TV!!
Oliver... I love Dickens on the page, but in musical form - no! Oliver stands as the ONE movie that Dan and I paid to get into and walked out of. Funny though, I really like movies about musicians with songs in them - like Coal Miner’s Daughter, Bound for Glory, or Walk the Line. And movies about classical composers - Amadeus or Immortal Beloved... they are something I could watch forever and ever! And even though I dislike Country and Western music one of my favourite movies is a 1980 film called Hank Williams: The Show He Never Gave, starring Sneezy Waters.
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Post by sgev1977 on May 3, 2018 16:01:33 GMT
Cabaret is a WONDERFUL film adaptation of a musical.
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Post by dreamsincolour on May 3, 2018 17:13:05 GMT
Cabaret's a great film indeed too! Such wonderful music and Liza Minelli was surely born to play Sally Bowles! She and Joel Gray on stage were just magnificent! And although I've seen it described as too trite (or the equivalent), I could watch that scene with the beautiful boy singing beautifully in the cafe before the Nazi ugliness was revealed, while the old man cringes in his chair, and get shivers every time.
I don't think it's one of the greats but I have a very soft spot for "Paint Your Wagon" too, with Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin, but that's possibly got something to do with having gone to see it with my mother one day when I was little.
Musical films always seem to me to be better when you haven't seen the stage show first. I still love the Rocky Horror film and must have gone to a late night showing at least 10 times back in the day (where most of the audience is in costume and everyone sings along - fantastic fun), but in truth I was terribly disappointed in it to begin with because I saw the stage show first and that was just amazing and the film was a dreadful letdown in comparison. JCS too was SO much better on stage, and I thought the film of it was terrible. Oddly enough, I saw the film again relatively recently and when you expect it to be dated and mannered, it was actually quite interesting and had held up better than I expected.
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Post by mllemass on May 3, 2018 17:42:35 GMT
I had a friend in high school who loved The Sound of Music, but I had never seen it. When I finally did watch it, I could see why she liked it so much. As time passed, I caught it a few more times when it was on tv. Then one time I didn't switch it off when it was over, and I discovered that there was more to the movie than I had seen before! I always thought it ended at the wedding, so I would switch it off. Little did I know that there was another hour to see!
And I took Latin when I was in high school. It really wasn't as nerdy as it sounds! One of the perks was attending the annual Latin Convention, where Latin students from our city's high schools came together to compete in different Latin-related events. (I still have my first-place ribbon for Translations!). At the end of the day, they had the awards ceremony and then they would show us A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. I remember us finding it hysterically funny.
And yes, attending the Rocky Horror Picture Show was a huge deal when I was in high school and well into my twenties. I still have the soundtrack album and the movie on VHS!
And then there are the musicals I've seen in person : Cats, the Phantom of the Opera, Les Misérables, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Mamma Mia (all in Toronto). And in New York I saw La Cage aux Folles, Miss Saigon, the Will Rogers Follies, Beauty and the Beast. And I saw Cats again in London!
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Post by sgev1977 on May 4, 2018 18:26:18 GMT
According to GoldDerby, PBS submitted BC and The Child in Time for Emmys! So BC will compete against himself for the nomination! www.goldderby.com/article/2018/emmys-2018-pbs-masterpiece-categories-little-women-the-child-in-time-news/I wonder why they let something like The Hollow Crown out of competition the way they did. If I remember well, Jeremy Irons was nominated for the first season so I'm guessing there was a good opportunity for BC that year (at least he would competed with Sherlock. Maybe that was the case! They didn't wanting to him competing with himself when they produce both series!)
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Post by mllemass on May 4, 2018 18:47:47 GMT
The Hollow Crown wasn't elegible for the Emmys because PBS released it on video before it aired on tv.
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Post by sgev1977 on May 4, 2018 20:23:19 GMT
Yes, I know and I was glad because I could bought the DVD earlier but I wonder why they did that. If they wanted awards it was a good opportunity!
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Post by igs on May 5, 2018 6:45:33 GMT
Awww, Sound of Music. It's my mother's favorite movie so I must have seen it about a thousand times when I was a kid, I'm pretty sure I knew all the songs by heart at one point (maybe I still do, haven't watched it in a while.) I've always loved musicals, they don't tend to work as well filmed as they do on stage but I still have a soft spot for them. Dancer in the Dark - which I'm pretty sure I've mentioned before as being an outlier in my general hatred of Lars von Trier - is in my TOP3 movies of all-time, I'm always up for an original film musical rather than another adaptation of a stage musical. I would hope La La Land inspired faith in the genre a bit!
I'd love to see JCS but I don't know where that'd be available for me.
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Post by sgev1977 on May 15, 2018 15:49:03 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on May 18, 2018 0:56:19 GMT
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