FILM MARATHON #3: Movie Musicals (Broadway & Original)
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...
View ArticleFILM MARATHON: Movie Musicals #2: Show Boat [1936]
“Just one big happy family” Based on Edna Ferber’s novel, the James Whale directed and Oscar Hammerstein II scripted Show Boat concerns the show-biz family of Magnolia Hawks and how her life is forever...
View ArticleFILM MARATHON: Movie Musicals #12: The King and I [1956]
“Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera” You don’t get much more dated than the 1956 musical edition of The King and I. Through all the pomp and circumstance, it’s the trite storyline of a wannabe-modern king...
View ArticleFILM MARATHON: Movie Musicals #13: The Sound of Music [1965]
“They were strawberries! It’s been so cold lately they turned blue!” My enjoyment of Oscar-winning musical The Sound of Music can best be described as the product of subjective expectation. I finally...
View ArticleFILM MARATHON #3: Movie Musicals (Broadway & Original)
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...
View ArticleFILM MARATHON: Movie Musicals #2: Show Boat [1936]
“Just one big happy family” Based on Edna Ferber’s novel, the James Whale directed and Oscar Hammerstein II scripted Show Boat concerns the show-biz family of Magnolia Hawks and how her life is forever...
View ArticleFILM MARATHON: Movie Musicals #12: The King and I [1956]
“Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera” You don’t get much more dated than the 1956 musical edition of The King and I. Through all the pomp and circumstance, it’s the trite storyline of a wannabe-modern king...
View ArticleFILM MARATHON: Movie Musicals #13: The Sound of Music [1965]
“They were strawberries! It’s been so cold lately they turned blue!” My enjoyment of Oscar-winning musical The Sound of Music can best be described as the product of subjective expectation. I finally...
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