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Director Henry King’s 1938 musical is a grand old-time show, with an ancient but serviceable plot about two songwriters (Tyrone Power and Don Ameche) battling for the love of an upcoming singing attraction (Alice Faye). […]
The pairing of Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby and a great batch of Irving Berlin songs, including the debut of the Oscar-winning best song ‘White Christmas’, are the filling in the cake of the 1942 […]
Based on Horace McCoy’s 1935 novel, director Sydney Pollack’s 1969 study of disparate group of characters desperate to win a gruelling 1932 Depression-era dance marathon is both incredibly atmospheric and evocative as well as thoughtful […]
Director Adrian Lyne’s quintessential 1983 musical drama Flashdance stars Jennifer Beals as Alex Owens, a Pittsburgh steel worker welder by day and by night a flashy exotic dancer who wants to get into ballet school […]
French movie director Jacques Demy’s 1967 musical follow-up to his 1964 Cannes Palme d’or-winning hit The Umbrellas of Cherbourg [Les parapluies de Cherbourg] is another devastatingly charming, light-hearted, carefree operetta. It is overloaded with energy, dynamism and […]
Writer-director Leonard Schrader’s 1990 eerie and exciting dance-inspired thriller stars Mathilda May as a newly wed young European woman who assumes a false identity in 1920s Argentina and finds herself caught up in a lurid […]
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 […]