And a lot of great repeats, from French crime (Bob le flambeur repeating throughout the week on Sundance) and
Golden Age musicals (On the Town and Singin» in the Rain) to Italian neo-surrealism (Nights of Cabiria, and yes, I made up that term, it's not a real thing) and mind - bending Lynch masterpieces (INLAND EMPIRE).
An ugly footnote to a romantic, melancholy masterwork that has aged better than many of
the Golden Age musicals it riffs on.
There are a refreshing number of Newly Featured titles this week, from
Golden Age musicals to classic noir to Kurosawa masterpieces to modern crime thrillers.
The various elements often seem to clash:
Golden Age musical and the»30s - or»60s - style left - wing labor drama, the young cast careening and leaping to songs like «Seize the Day» while the writers try to fill a broad canvas with social detail.
Not exact matches
The critically - acclaimed Amazon drama Transparent — created by Jill Soloway and inspired by her own father's transition at
age 75 — won the 2015
Golden Globe for best TV series,
musical or comedy, thereby increasing its odds to score an Emmy (or two) come September.
The comedic duo is teaming up to star in a movie
musical based on the book Everything Is Coming Up Profits: The
Golden Age of Industrial
Musicals.
«Nashville» features more than an hours worth of
musical performances, and even though they're not the polished
musical numbers of Hollywood's
golden age, they are refreshingly real.
«The
Golden Age of
Musicals» Details: 1937 - 57, Film Chest Media Rated: Not rated The lowdown: A five - disc set featuring 17 musicals — all public domain and all previously released
Musicals» Details: 1937 - 57, Film Chest Media Rated: Not rated The lowdown: A five - disc set featuring 17
musicals — all public domain and all previously released
musicals — all public domain and all previously released on DVD.
But Post, who broke into directing in 1950, managed to build a résumé that could have belonged to a
golden -
age Hollywood journeyman like Michael Curtiz, who in 1935 knocked out a labor drama, a workplace romance, and an action picture in rapid succession, along with a Perry Mason programmer, a gangster comedy, and part of an Al Jolson — Ruby Keeler backstage
musical that somehow burned through three directors.
, an exhaustive / exhausting retrospective making - of blending talking heads old and new that finds the principals comparing the picture to everything from Birdman of Alcatraz to the
Golden Age of the Hollywood
Musical.
The
golden age of movie
musicals saw four Best Picture winners as the Academy fell in love with the likes of Julie Andrews, and directors like George Cukor and Robert Wise got their big Oscar wins.
There's also more than enough reason to convert jazz haters as well as Hurwitz effortlessly segues from O.G. improvisation to the electronically hip in this engaging slice of
musical LA dream life and its myriad
musical styles, turning a seemingly lost
golden age of
musical storytelling into the hippest tune around.
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture -
Musical or Comedy (Lady Bird) Already nominated for three
Golden Globes at the
age of just 23, Saoirse Ronan isn't merely one of her generation»
The Coens seem to be having a grand old time, amusing themselves with
musical numbers and other homages to
Golden Age Hollywood — while simultaneously undercutting the whole industry as trivial and silly.
(2004) • The Hoax • Primal Fear (Hard Evidence Edition) • Bee Movie (A Very Jerry 2 - Disc Edition) The Muppets» Wizard of Oz • Step Brothers (2 - Disc Unrated Edition) • Dark Water (Unrated) • Elizabeth: The
Golden Age Once Upon a Mattress (2005) • My Scene Goes Hollywood: The Movie • Labyrinth (Anniversary Edition) • Pete's Dragon Bride & Prejudice • Sling Blade • Sin City (2005) • Tsotsi (2006) • Enchanted April • Tarzan: The Broadway
Musical (Soundtrack CD) The Happiest Millionaire • The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band • High School
Musical • High School
Musical 3: Senior Year
Filmed in aqueous greens and blues, its period design dripping with kitschy nostalgia and retro - futurism, «The Shape of Water» takes its cues from
Golden Age Hollywood, including
musicals, Bible epics and 1950s creature features, as well as the sleekly optimistic advertising imagery of the early 1960s: Elisa's best friend and next - door neighbor, Giles (Richard Jenkins), is a commercial artist working on a campaign for Jell - O, the shaky symbolic repository for the time period's most uncertain hopes and anxieties.
The synthesized
musical score hearkens Final Fantasy's
golden age on the Super Nintendo, consciously staying true to its roots.
The Gentleman is a feel - good rhythm adventure game drawing inspiration from the
golden age of Hollywood
Musicals.
In addition to her
musical pursuits, Kamala has been a voice actor on Comedy Central's Superjail and Cartoon Network's
Golden Age, and holds a PhD in Cognitive Psychology from the New School for Social Research.
The National's own
musical pair, of ladies standing and sitting at the virginal, are joined in trio by The Guitar Player from Kenwood House; alongside these will be 17th - century sheet music and a selection of instruments, all there to encourage us to meditate on the meaning of music to the Delftish master in the Dutch
Golden Age.
She can be described as obsessive about Gilded
Age mansions and
musicals from the
Golden Age of Hollywood.