Most favored Bob Fosse’s All That Jazz, which won four Oscars and another five nominations. The emphasis for the next three decades would be on musical drama and fantasy.Ĭritics were split over which film was the best musical of 1979. Charlie Martin Smith and Don Stroud were outstanding as members of his band. Gary Busey won a richly deserved Oscar nomination for his electrifying portrayal of Holly. The best musical of 1978 was The Buddy Holly Story, about the short life of the legendary rock ‘n’ roll singer from Lubbock, Texas, who was killed in a plane crash in 1959 at the age of 22. Co-produced by Scorsese and The Band’s Robbie Robertson, the film also contained performances by such artists as Van Morrison, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Emmylou Harris and Muddy Waters. This one, because it had a hot-name director helming it, was given major distribution and played to packed houses. There had been concert films before, but with the notable exception of 1970’s Woodstock and one or two others, they usually played small theatres for a week or two if they got distribution at all. Never mind that the dancers’ feet were cut off for most of the musical numbers, it was the chance to see a more contemporary musical with John Travolta fresh from his Oscar-nominated performance in Saturday Night Fever starring opposite 1970s pop star Olivia Newton-John.Ī better example of contemporary music on screen was Martin Scorsese’s The Last Waltz, a documentary of the last concert given by The Band. Artistically it catered to the undemanding, easily entertained masses. If A Little Night Music was an artistic and commercial failure, Grease which was also released in 1978, was at least a commercial success. I left off in 1978 with the dismal screen adaptation of another Sondheim classic, A Little Night Music, which was pretty much the death knell of the traditional Broadway-to-Hollywood musical that soared so majestically for more than two decades with such sublime entertainments as The King and I, West Side Story, My Fair Lady, The Sound of Music, Oliver! and Cabaret.
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With the opening of Tim Burton’s film version of Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd this past weekend, it’s time for my third and final dissertation on the evolution of the movie musical. I recommend that you hang about before clicking buy, as it wont be to long before this ends up in many an e-tailers bargain bin.Merry Christmas to all! And to all a good movie on DVD!
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The high point of the platter is the Dolby digital Plus 5.1 soundtrack that is very dynamic and makes full use of all five speakers and the subwoofer. He can, however, deliver a mean high kick and its when hes throwing his weight around that he is at his best.Īs a package, this High Definition DVD lacks anything in the way of special features and the picture quality is spoilt completely by black crush. Jean-Claude cannot act, He cant deliver lines, his timing is way off and he fails to command any presence onscreen.
This was made at the height of his career a career that had many lows following his fall from grace and his fight with substance abuse. I strongly disagree and would argue that if you really wanted to see what he could do, then some of his earlier work is better. Some may say that Timecop is JCVDs finest hour.
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