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...American in Paris. The famous musical made by Vincents Minelli in 1951, and winner of five Academy Awards. Gershwin music, Lerner screenplay, and performance by Gene Kelly, Oscar Levant and Nina Fochs. I find it a little overdone, but some people are into this sort of thing...
...imagery of her life has always been more like a shooting star, burning out fast but brilliant. This movie lies at the zenith of her arc, anyway, and she's a wonder, starched and rosy-cheeked and singing Trolley Song with an energy that makes her creditable daughter Liza Minelli look like a radiator. The 1944 color in this Vincente Minelli (the same) period piece is gaudy, sumptuous and eerie-looking relative to the hushed or sheeny tones we're used...
Cabaret. with Liza Minelli, Joel Grey, Michael York. Another movie about German decadence, but this one plays cleaner than most. Which isn't saying much. Its Germans are on the whole a piggish disreputable bunch. There is your bisexual decaying aristocrat, your mother loving young men, the soldiers who seem to like each other better than the women. Joel Grey is terrific, and Minelli's "Money, Money" would make just about anything worthwhile. Cinema Kenmore Square...
...cabarets--which have an air of being recent revivals--the striptease shows have taken poses from Liza Minelli (her film is immensely popular on the Kurfurstendamm) and one establishment has the latterday name of "Lola Montez." There are still touches of the bizarre: a poster advertises topless dancers parading engagingly as boxers--gloves, helmet, Everlast. The political cabarets have become almost purely theaters, and the shows are tame; one has closed down to become a children's theater. One laughs at jokes about the Nazis; nowhere is there anything resembling Gunter Grass' famous description in The Tin Drum...
Cabaret. with Liza Minelli, Joel Grey, Michael York. Another movie about German decadence, but this one plays cleaner than most. Which isn't saying much. Its Germans are on the whole a piggish disreputable bunch. There is your bisexual decaying aristocrat, your mother loving young men, the soldiers who seem to like each other better than the women. Joel Grey is terrific, and Minelli's "Money, Money" would make just about anything worthwhile. Cinema Kenmore Square...