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Re: The best musical each year...
« Reply #50 on: October 19, 2019, 08:44:43 PM »
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Re: The best musical each year...
« Reply #51 on: October 19, 2019, 08:50:04 PM »
Saw Rocky Horror for the first time as part of a double bill with Young Frankenstein (see above!) - preferred the latter.
i hope he was old enough to get in 😝

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« Reply #52 on: October 19, 2019, 08:51:35 PM »
i hope he was old enough to get in 😝
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« Reply #53 on: October 19, 2019, 08:53:18 PM »
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Re: The best musical each year...
« Reply #54 on: October 19, 2019, 08:54:37 PM »
Saw Rocky Horror for the first time as part of a double bill with Young Frankenstein (see above!) - preferred the latter.
I take it that it was a late night double feature?

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« Reply #55 on: October 19, 2019, 08:56:21 PM »
i don't care
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« Reply #56 on: October 19, 2019, 08:56:55 PM »
I take it that it was a late night double feature?
I think it was a bolt-on

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« Reply #57 on: October 19, 2019, 08:59:27 PM »
I take it that it was a late night double feature?
It was in the mid 80s in Aberystwyth - they did double features, late nights ... not so much. They probably wanted Life of Brian on the programme, but it was still banned, and would be for years to come!!

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« Reply #58 on: October 19, 2019, 09:23:00 PM »
Coming back to a previous post about people bursting into song being artificial - I can kind of see their point. Some films notably "Cabaret" get around this by setting nearly all the songs within a theatrical setting. The funny thing for me is however, that the most effective and affecting song in Cabaret was the one song set outside the Kit Kat Club, that song being "Tomorrow Belongs to Me". It still makes me shudder to think of that scene.
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« Reply #59 on: October 19, 2019, 09:27:39 PM »
Coming back to a previous post about people bursting into song being artificial - I can kind of see their point. Some films notably "Cabaret" get around this by setting nearly all the songs within a theatrical setting. The funny thing for me is however, that the most effective and affecting song in Cabaret was the one song set outside the Kit Kat Club, that song being "Tomorrow Belongs to Me". It still makes me shudder to think of that scene.
It's a brilliant piece of songwriting as it 'feels' like it could be original. Kander and Ebbs are hugely underestimated imffho.

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« Reply #60 on: October 19, 2019, 09:42:29 PM »
It's a brilliant piece of songwriting as it 'feels' like it could be original. Kander and Ebbs are hugely underestimated imffho.
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Re: The best musical each year...
« Reply #61 on: October 19, 2019, 09:49:39 PM »
In my far from humble opinion.

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Re: The best musical each year...
« Reply #62 on: October 19, 2019, 10:00:30 PM »
In my far from humble opinion.
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« Reply #63 on: October 19, 2019, 10:09:22 PM »
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Best musical ??
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As a film musical my favourite is Singin in the Rain, then The Jungle Book, then Cabaret.

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« Reply #64 on: October 19, 2019, 10:11:43 PM »
As a film musical my favourite is Singin in the Rain, then The Jungle Book, then Cabaret.
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« Reply #65 on: October 19, 2019, 10:14:16 PM »
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« Reply #66 on: October 19, 2019, 10:19:30 PM »
It's me being right so often makes me wrong for so many other people.
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Re: The best musical each year...
« Reply #67 on: October 19, 2019, 10:21:04 PM »
Well it's the web site of the BFI. It was always going to be film musicals. I've seen 11 including the Wicker Man which is really not a musical IMO.
I thought the inclusion of 'The Wicker Man' was bizarre. I saw it many years ago, and don't remember any songs, though there was apparently one sung by kids round a Maypole. They might as well have included 'Reds', for the Russian workers singing the 'Internationale'.
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Re: The best musical each year...
« Reply #68 on: October 19, 2019, 10:21:24 PM »
I would just like to confess, at the risk of being vilified, that I cannot stand 'The Sound of Music', though it is easily avoided.

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« Reply #69 on: October 19, 2019, 10:23:40 PM »
keep telling it to yourself if it makes you feel good
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Re: The best musical each year...
« Reply #70 on: October 19, 2019, 10:24:42 PM »
I thought the inclusion of 'The Wicker Man' was bizarre. I saw it many years ago, and don't remember any songs, though there was apparently one sung by kids round a Maypole. They might as well have included 'Reds', for the Russian workers singing the 'Internationale'.
You missed the Britt Ekland song?

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« Reply #71 on: October 19, 2019, 10:25:43 PM »
I would just like to confess, at the risk of being vilified, that I cannot stand 'The Sound of Music', though it is easily avoided.
I've never seen 'The Sound of Music' - the film. The nearest I've got is watching a school production of the musical a couple of years ago.

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Re: The best musical each year...
« Reply #72 on: October 19, 2019, 10:33:31 PM »
I thought the inclusion of 'The Wicker Man' was bizarre. I saw it many years ago, and don't remember any songs, though there was apparently one sung by kids round a Maypole. They might as well have included 'Reds', for the Russian workers singing the 'Internationale'.
It has great music - a soundtrack CD was available.
Ah, but I was so much older then ... I'm younger than that now

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« Reply #73 on: October 19, 2019, 10:37:42 PM »
It has great music - a soundtrack CD was available.
I suspect it still is:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wicker-Man-S-T-Magnet/dp/B07GW6G2NG/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3M1ZY1136ZDAI&keywords=wicker+man+soundtrack&qid=1571520966&sprefix=wicker+man+sou%2Caps%2C169&sr=8-1

But just because a film soundtrack is available doesn't mean the film was a musical - most films release their soundtracks - most aren't musicals.

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Re: The best musical each year...
« Reply #74 on: October 19, 2019, 10:40:08 PM »
I've never seen 'The Sound of Music' - the film. The nearest I've got is watching a school production of the musical a couple of years ago.
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