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Posts Tagged "ballet"
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On Your Toes *** (1939, Vera Zorina, Eddie Albert, Alan Hale Sr, Frank McHugh) – Classic Movie Review 3631
Director Ray Enright’s disappointingly flat-footed 1939 Warner Bros film version of the great 1936 Broadway hit musical by George Abbott, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart unfortunately lacks the spark and most of the music of […]
Shall We Dance ***** (1937, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blore, Harriet Hoctor, Jerome Cowan, Ketti Gallian, William Brisbane) – Classic Movie Review 2952
Director Mark Sandrich’s delicious vintage 1937 musical Shall We Dance once again pairs the perfect song and dance team of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, who decide that indeed they shall dance. And this time […]
Limelight ***** (1952, Charles Chaplin, Claire Bloom, Nigel Bruce, Sydney Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Norman Lloyd) – Classic Movie Review 2549
Producer-writer-director-star Charles Chaplin’s 1952 drama with music Limelight is a beautiful film, incredibly poignant, extremely sentimental and nostalgic, but almost unbearably moving both for itself and as an encapsulation of the star’s life. The pairing […]
The Tales of Hoffmann ***** (1951, Moira Shearer, Robert Helpmann, Robert Rounseville, Ludmilla Tchérina, Ann Ayars) – Classic Movie Review 1761
Writer/producer/director team Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger set about in 1951 to try to repeat the success of their all-time great dance film The Red Shoes (1948) and cast Moira Shearer, Robert Helpmann, Leonide Massine, Ludmilla Tcherina […]
The Company *** (2003, Neve Campbell, James Franco, Malcolm McDowell) – Classic Movie Review 1593
Scream’s Neve Campbell (who also co-wrote the original story and co-produced) proves a surprise super dancer in director Robert Altman’s 2003 gossipy account of the day-to-day life of a fictional ballet company (played by members […]
Hans Christian Andersen *** (1952, Danny Kaye, Zizi Jeanmaire, Farley Granger) – Classic Movie Review 1535
The opening credits of this fanciful 1952 Samuel Goldwyn-produced vehicle for Danny Kaye say it all: ‘Once upon a time there lived in Denmark a great storyteller named Hans Christian Andersen. This is not the story […]
Scary Movie 5 * (2013, Ashley Tisdale, Simon Rex) – Movie Review
None of the cast members from the previous films returns in this appallingly slack and shoddy fourth sequel to the 2000 movie that was ironically advertised way back then as ‘no mercy, no shame, no […]