With ambition often comes risk of failure, and De-Lovely is an extremely ambitious film, attempting to celebrate the creations of one of the greatest American composers of popular musicals while simultaneously telling the story of his adult life. The film begins with a bizarre premise evocative of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol: an aging (and [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Musical'
De-Lovely
May 28th, 2006 · 1 Comment
Tags: Biographical · Musical
On the Town
May 15th, 2006 · 2 Comments
This happens a lot: Maggie and I sit down over the weekend to watch a film on DVD only to discover that there does not appear to be a remotely uplifting candidate among the week’s Netflix arrivals. I try to be a good movie jockey and mix it up a bit. Really, I do. But [...]
High Society / My Man Godfrey
April 9th, 2006 · No Comments
To get one step closer to an honorable death (see previous post), one needs to spend a little time in High Society (1956). Not so much a musical, in the start-to-finish singing-and-dancing sense, High Society remakes The Philadelphia Story (1940) with a few musical numbers thrown into the mix. With a cast that includes Bing [...]
Hustle & Flow
April 4th, 2006 · No Comments
There was a small, but strong buzz surrounding Hustle & Flow, and the performance of Terrence Howard as the pimp with an aching to make it as a hip-hop star, well before Three 6 Mafia injected some life into this year’s Oscars with their acceptance of the award for best song, “It’s Hard Out Here [...]
Black Narcissus / Yankee Doodle Dandy
March 25th, 2006 · 2 Comments
I respond well to lists. As such, when my brother-in-law gave me the book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die last Christmas, I spent most of the 7-hour flight home from Dublin placing check marks on the pages of the films I’d seen, and reading, with considerable interest, the reviews of the ones [...]
Tags: Biographical · Drama · Musical
Here are this morning’s Oscar-nominated films, alphabetically. The nominees for foreign language film and documentary feature are compiled at the end of the list. (Short format nominees are listed in a 
