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Holistic Guidance - Cabaret
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Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem, Joel Grey, Fritz Wepper
Directed By: Bob Fosse
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790782225
Format: Closed-captioned
ISBN: 0790782227
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2003-08-19
Running Time: 124
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1972-02-13
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Editorial Reviews:
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Willkommen bienvenue welcome to Cabaret. The winner of eight Academy Awards it boasts a score by the legendary songwriting partnership behind another film that would energize the movie musical genre with equal razzle-dazzle 30 years later: Chicago's John Kander and Fred Ebb. Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli) and an impish emcee (Joel Grey) sound the clarion call to decadent fun while outside a certain political party grows into a brutal force. Cabaret caught lightning (and won Oscars) for Minnelli Grey and director Bob Fosse who shaped a triumph of style and substance. Come to this Cabaret old chum. You'll never want to leave.Running Time: 110 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:Â MUSICALS/MUSICALS UPC:Â 085392798629
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Summary: Only the best
Comment: I first saw Cabaret on Broadway in April 1968, wit the original Broadway Cast. I thought that it was fantastic. We talked about it for several days after seeing the production.We enjoyed the play so much that when the movie was released in 1972 we were in no hurry to see it knowing that it couldn’t compare with the play. After several friends encouraged us to see it we gave in, took a drive to the local multiplex, bought the tickets and reluctantly entered the darkened theater expecting to be proven right in that no movie could possible be better then the Broadway play. How wrong we were, the move was so far superior to the play it was like it was two different stories. Happily some of the songs that didn’t work on Broadway were left out and the movie cast did great credit to all of the music in the show. In my eyes nobody but Liza Minnelli could play Sally Bowes. Joel Gray was good on Broadway but he was fantastic in the movie.
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Summary: Don't remake Cabaret!
Comment: I remember when they bring Cabaret to Broadway or the West End like they recycle musicals but to me, Cabaret with Liza Minnelli and Joel Grey are the epitome of perfection in the film. You don't mess with perfection or come close to it with these two brilliant performers on stage. Liza gave the role of a lifetime as Sally Bowles, a London singer, who they Americanize her in this film. Fine because it works and nobody sings or belts out the songs better than Liza does. In this film, it is dark Berlin where Nazism and anti-Semitism is on the rise since World War I has ended leaving Germany to pay for it and the onset of World War II. The chilling scenes of Nazism and the rise of it's evil power is done simply in the song, "Tomorrow Belongs to Me," with the unsuspecting Germans not realizing about the true meaning of the song. Sally Bowles has led quite sad life despite her upbeat personality. I don't think Liza ever played a role as suitable or close to her personality as Sally Bowles. Liza is not just Judy's daughter but Liza Minnelli is her own person. She can make you cry and laugh with one breath and you want more. The ending is somewhat vague as if it presents what will come to Germany. I get shivers and chills down my spine when the music has ended and the film is done as if knowing what lies head isn't horrifying enough.
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Summary: spirited and lively entertainment
Comment: One of the better musicals and great Fosse choreography. Joel Grey is stupendous as the MC and his musical skits are great entertainment. Liza Minnelli is supreme as Sally Boles.
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Summary: A Perfect Example Of Why We Go To The Movies
Comment: Christopher Isherwood, the author of THE BERLIN STORIES, where the character Sally Bowles came from in the first place, is quoted in the documentary "Chris and Don" as saying that Liza Minnelli wasn't right for this movie because she was far too good since Sally Bowles was an amateur performer and there was nothing that resembled an amateur about Minnelli's performance. She gives a performance here that is perfect and deserves to be seen again and again. She comes alive in every scene (her mother would have been proud of her) and won an Oscar for best actress along with Joel Grey (Best Supporting Actor) and Bob Fosse for Best Director. If you are counting, there were five more Oscars awarded to this movie on Oscar night as well. The cinematography is by Geoffrey Unsworth; the music by John Kander and Fred Ebb.
Watching this film for the first time since I saw it in 1972, I noticed how much Michael York's character here is similar to the one he played in "Something for Everyone," released a few years before "Cabaret." Hal Prince, who produced this film was the director of that fine movie and Kander is responsible for the soundtrack.
The story of course is all about the "divine decadence," as Sally would say, in Berlin in the years leading up to the outbreak of World War II. When a young blond angelic German lad sings "Tomorrow Belongs To Me" and is joined by a whole host of others as the song swells in volume, we get a chilling preview of what will take place soon in Germany and the rest of Europe.
"Cabaret" is quite simply a perfect movie.
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Summary: Should have a title other than "Cabaret"...
Comment: Cabaret, the on-stage musical, is one of the most enthralling and moving musicals to be ever found on Broadway. It's message and theme are both important and beautiful. The only problem is that when they attempted to adapt it to the screen, the took a beautiful show, and ripped it apart. The plot, characters, and a few songs (Mein Herr, Money) are completely distorted and absolutely different than the original show. This movie should have had a different title other than "Cabaret" because this is not the same as the magnificent show. I gave it two stars only because the movie itself is not all terrible. This movie and the show should be viewed as two completely different entities, they truly have nothing in common.
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