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CABARET (1972) Cert 15
Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem, Marisa Berenson, Joel Grey. Directed by Bob Fosse.
Kicking off a Summer Season of Must-See Movie Classics at The Screening Room: Bob Fosse's incomparable Cabaret.
No other musical from the 1970s has had such immense and lasting impact on popular culture. The stage adaptation of the movie remains a perennial fixture in theatres around the world, and even now is still playing in London's West End, more than 50 years after the film was released. (Fosse's subsequent companion piece Chicago casts an equally long shadow).
Yet the original movie of Cabaret still stands head and shoulders above any subsequent versions, not just for its fabulously edgy musical numbers but also for its bold depiction of Germany in the 1930s as that country began its steep descent into Nazi tyranny. This, truly, is a musical with brains as well as brilliance; one of those rare musicals aimed at adults, rather for a family audience.
Arguably no other actress has caused such a sensation as Liza Minnelli, who effortlessly steals every moment she appears on screen as flighty, flirty nightclub singer Sally Bowles, negotiating a precarious pathway through the underbelly of Weimar Republic Berlin. Michael York is the shy Englishman adrift in an unfamiliar city who falls under her bewitching spell. Meinen Damen und Herren, Ladies and Gentlemen, wilkommen, bienvenue, welcome... im Cabaret, au Cabaret, to Cabaret!
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