Cabaret

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Summary: Film and History, or the other way around...
Review: This film is possibly the best musical i have seen. The film is almost the antithesis of the pathetic no-brainer musicals of the 1950s and60s. This was not a choice viewing, but one for a uni course so i didn't watch it because i wanted to!! But I was surprised at the quality of the actors involved and the overall directing of the film. All of the issues dealt with were done with sensitivity, such as the homosexuality, the Nazi opposition to the Jewish population and the identity changing of some people to hide their family and past. The direction of the film by Fosse is brilliant and the work done on interweaving the Nazi uprising with the Caberet performances done by Sally Bowles and the MC are superb. If I were to pick out a scene that captivated me it would have to be when the young boy is singing and it scrolls down to reveal the Nazi uniform... chilling. I now understand why this movie is a cult.

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Summary: Blockbuster Film-Version of Broadway Smash
Review: Berlin 1930. The city is a haven for society's outcasts, foreigners, transvestites, prostitutes. The focus is on "Sally" (brilliantly portrayed by Liza Minnelli), a life- (and men-) loving American night club singer with secret dreams of settling down and living a more respectable life. She befriends a young unemployed translator and "shacks up" with him. Together they (and others) witness the changing winds brought on by the emerging power of the Nazis. -- The musical numbers are fantastic, most memorable the "Money" song and Liza Minnelli's solos. "If You Could See Her Through My Eyes" is a thinly vailed commentary on the Nazi's hatred towards Jews. The vulgarity of the night club milleu adds to the realism of a tragic chapter in German (and World) History. This film is a masterpiece deservedly honored with 8 Oscars! -- If you ever get a chance to see a stage production of "Cabaret", by all means SEE IT. Some of the effects are even more stunning when seen live on stage. This is one of Broadway's finest musicals ever.*****

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Summary: The World is a Caberet
Review: This classic film (VHS) can be seen over and over again. Each time, nuances that you might have missed the previous time appear on screen. Notice how the number of Nazi uniforms increase at the club. Notice how Joel Grey's make-up appears more and more grotesque. Notice the old man who doesn't rise to sing with the young Nazi. Is he just wiser because he's older or is he Jewish? Notice how the division between German Jews and other Germans becomes more defined. The gestures, costumes and lyrics that Joel Grey uses become more anti-Nazi as the movie progresses. And yet,the entertainment will make you laugh and cheer despite the obvious politics involved. Joel Grey and Lisa Mannelli are magnificent on stage. By the time you've seen this great movie several times, you realize that Liza is the typical person who doesn't want to see the evil growing around her.The gay scenes are done tastefully and with a lack of unnecessary detail. This is a real classic!!

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Summary: Welcome to the Cabaret!
Review: Cabaret is great masterpiece.It has Liza Minnelli in it, Judy Garland's daughter. The film captures Liza's brilliance in singing legendary songs such as "Mein Heir" and "Cabaret." I think "Cabaret" should be considered an all-time classic. Even though it was only shot 29 years ago. A must for all broadway film lovers.

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Summary: Cabaret
Review: .... ONE GREAT AND BEAUTIFUL FILM!!... and, one that has stood the test of time for almost 30 years now, just to have modern technology "BLOW" the sountrack, what a shame. I feel particularly sorry for those who might have sold their laserdisc version anticipating this DVD. The Widescreen Magazine review of the sound track is kind.

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Summary: Completely Unimpressive
Review: I've never seen the show live or heard any other recordings so I can't say if it's Cabaret it'sself or just this movie that's bad. I found this film to be so boring and the music so annoying that I turned it off after 40 minutes. If you're a fan of Cabaret then you might like this (I really wouldn't know) but all in all this is a really tiresome film with only a few worthwhile moments

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Summary: MUSICAL TRAGEDY
Review: The transfer from Broadway stage to cinema is artistically precise in this dark musical celebrating the joys of decadence in a 1930s French cabaret as the World War II Holocaust looms on the horizon. Brilliant.

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Summary: That 's Liza with an Oscar!
Review: This film is so damn atmospheric it's creepy. Fosse was becoming known as a great director at the time this film was made and rightfully so. The opening number alone is pure bliss. And even though characters were added and songs replaced it doesn't diminish this film from the stage production in the least. Liza is truly a damn good actress who was never truly appreciated. Her performance is so heart-tugging that it makes your hair stand on end. But the basis for this film isn't romance but the deconstruction of it. From the begining the images are striking and harsh even when a beautiful number is sung the lighting/dancing is never truly expressed and that is what life is and Fosse knew it all along-that no matter how free you say you are with your persona nobody wants their life out in the open for all to see. Life is cabaret and that's where we all live, inside one. Lit just enough so we let people peer in but dark enough to hide our most telling emotions. A must own! The lessons Sally Bowles (Minnelli) learns and lives through whilw working in the sexualy charged Kit Kat Klub are only matched by the growing power of the Nazi party that is grwoing around her in 1931 Berlin!

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Summary: Cartoonish Hollywood misfire
Review: This movie/musical bears little if any relationship or resemblance to Weimar Berlin & its Cabaret culture & music. Its roots are far more in the silly 1950s westerns with the gaudy saloon dancers or 1960s gems like Thoroughly Modern Millie. Maybe someday they'll have the courage & intelligence to do it right. It's doubtful.

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Summary: life is a cabaret ol chum
Review: excellent musical! should have won an oscar... no wait it did. anyway liza minelli and jole gray light up the screen with a seedy and seemy germany. the story is dark and disturbing touching on antisemitism, and homosexuality. but the score is absolutely amazing, drab and livly at the same time it really shows the termoils that were ripping germany apart. and the film also shows how easy it was to be taken in by nazi retoric. buy it rent it what ever just watch this movie!