FILM MARATHON: Movie Musicals #11: Victor Victoria [1982]

Posted by on August 19, 2011 · 2 Comments 

“I’d sleep with you for a meatball” You’re down on your luck, famished, and unable to get a job despite having a voice like no other. What do you do? Victoria Grant (Julie Andrews) is asking herself that very question when we see her auditioning for Chez Lui—a dump populated by gangsters and hotheads that’s […]

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FILM MARATHON: Movie Musicals #4: The Music Man [1962]

Posted by on October 25, 2010 · Leave a Comment 

“You have trouble folks, right here in River City” Could Harold Hill be the best con man in cinema history? A man never for a loss of words, Robert Preston’s rendition of The Music Man puts forth a gentleman of great art, tastes, and disarming charm who is both loathsome and irresistible once you find […]

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FILM MARATHON #3: Movie Musicals (Broadway & Original)

Posted by on September 20, 2010 · Leave a Comment 

The reason I started doing my marathon series was to finally start seeing films I’ve neglected and needed to see. Doing the filmography of Terrence Malick couldn’t have turned out better with some of the greatest works of cinema I’ve ever seen. Days of Heaven easily vaulted itself into my top 10 of all-time and […]

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