Sentences with phrase «backlot musical»
Newsies is a revisiting of the Old Hollywood backlot musical, complete with rousing and utterly interchangeable songs and several athletically choreographed dance sequences.
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«It's a musical comedy that takes place on a Hollywood backlot, so you pass through all these pictures that are in production there,» Burwell explained, but he goes on to clarify that it's not actually a «musical comedy.»
For daring to dream of an old - school Hollywood musical with a modern soul, and for applying his talents to some virtuosic backlot spectacle, Directors Guild winner Damien Chazelle will cap his magic year with a Best Director statuette.
Damien Chazelle («Whiplash»), channeling both classic MGM musicals and the French New Wave at its most self - reflexive, somehow makes us believers in a backlot world of gravity - defying romance.
«It's a musical comedy that takes place on a Hollywood backlot, so you pass through all these pictures that are in production there,» he said in the spring.