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The main problem is director Tom Hooper, who films each musical number, almost without exception, in close - up.

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25 year old Vanessa Hudgens is an American actress and singer who rose to fame in her teens starring in the High School Musical films.

This peculiar low - budget children's musical fantasy was directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis, who was best known for horror films like Blood Feast.

The filmmakers went into this project insisting that all the actors do their own singing, and while «crooners» like Pierce Brosnan and Colin Firth (let alone Stellan Skarsgård, who is very, very brave to have done his own singing) are not going to go down in history as much more than barely competent, star Meryl Streep, who has already proven her musical chops theatrically and previously in such films as Postcards from the Edge, is marvelous, if a bit too country - yodelish for this patently pop score.

And both films focus on a young boy who follows his musical dreams at the risk of disappointing his family.

I'm not sure how people who are not musical obsessives will react to the film — it takes the form very seriously — but for those with any decent amount of showtune-itis in their blood, Les Misérables is, I'm surprised to find myself saying, something of a must - see.

I've said it before, but for those who haven't read my reviews previously, I'll preface this one by stating I generally dislike film musicals.

Elvis Presley's second film, based on his own rise to stardom, casts the King as Deke Rivers, a Southern boy who becomes an overnight sensation thanks to his vast musical gifts.

And with musicals specialist Rob Marshall, someone who literally doesn't know how to direct a movie, the film's lacking even the visual flair of Gore Verbinski's prior entries.

Greta Gerwig who wrote and directed «Lady Bird,» which won Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, noted that «it's been such an incredible year for women in film both as actors and also writers and directors and producers and people who are really coming to the forefront to tell their stories about the world as they know it from where they are standing, and I think that the response to these projects and the support that these projects have gotten and the way that audiences are going to see them or watching them in their homes, I think all of this just makes it so much easier for the next crop of filmmakers who want to tell stories about women.»

The film takes place in 1980s Dublin, and follows 14 - year - old Conor (Ferdia Walsh - Peelo) who uses his musical talent to try and woo Raphina (Lucy Boynton).

Reeve Carney - Singer and Actor Reeve Carney, who played the part of Peter Parker in U2's Broadway musical Spiderman preforming live at The Workmans Club, Dublin.Reeve is also in Dublin filming Horror series Penny Dreadful playing the part of Dorian Gray - Dublin, Ireland - Sunday 2nd March 2014 (19 Pictures)

In the time that has followed she has made at least two more feature film appearances a year, playing a variety of roles such as the trophy wife in the comedy Potiche (Ozon, 2010), a mother who rekindles a thirty year old romance in the musical, Les bien - aimé / Beloved (Honoré, 2011) and Queen Cordelia in the most recent instalment of Astérix and Obélix: Au service de sa majesté / God Save Britannia (Tirard, 2012).

Will Gluck, who directed the light comedies Easy A and Friends with Benefits, brings his audience - friendly talent on board for this musical, though it is interesting that the film only really comes to life through some of the musical numbers and not through the spoken dialogue or comic characterizations.

The movie just seems a bit too high - gloss for such a tortured soul, and despite the best efforts of Tom Hiddleston, the film is not worthy of someone who left the musical legacy of Hank Williams.

Movies on the radio: Phillips and film historian Desiree Garcia, who played Madeline in Damien Chazelle's «Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench,» join «Filmspotting» host Adam Kempenaar for a «La La Land» show including their favorite musical numbers in movie history.

Telsey + Company's L.A. office — based Tiffany Little Canfield, who cast the new «Mary Poppins,» has a long history of musical series and films (in addition to the SAG award — winning «This Is Us»), so hers might be the room to get into.

Fans of the tender Irish indie film Once — described by some as a «musical for people who don't like musicals» — can rest easy.

IFMCA member James Southall said that «The Shape of Water» was «yet another from the top drawer of Desplat,» and went on to describe him as «one of the most consistently impressive film composers of the last couple of decades,» who has «managed to be so successful without having to water down his highly - distinctive musical voice at all».

And the fault must rest squarely on director and co-screenwriter Kirsten Stewart («In America»), who can't seem to decide whether she's making a narrative film or some sort of musical tone poem, and the biggest victims are the characters, who are largely non-existent.

The film often riffs on George Bernard Shaw's «Pygmalion,» the musical adaptation, «My Fair Lady,» and most of all the 1938 movie version, which featured a sly romantic ending and, of course, Leslie Howard, another Brit heartthrob who could act.

Neither film is the historical biography you expect: Barnum's bootstrap entrepreneurship is romanticized into a family - friendly movie musical starring Hugh Jackman, strutting about among an America's Got Talent array of motley performers who represent some trendy demography.

Anyone who has seen the lavish stage musical and also loved it (and that two - part distinction is essential) will find much to be thankful for in director Tom Hooper's lavish film adaptation.

For novices, the film (based on the award - winning Broadway musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel) tells the tale of unjustly - imprisoned Jean Valjean (Jackman), who seeks redemption once he is released.

Les Misérables certainly looks strikingly different than most of the other Broadway musical - turned films released in recent years, thanks to some picturesque visuals and unusual camera angles conjured up by director of photography Danny Cohen (who received an Oscar nod for his similar work on King's Speech).

Snubbed even by the Golden Globes, who have their own comedy or musical categories, Logan Lucky has been on home video since November, itching as one of last year's best films you haven't seen.

He has a motormouth crackhead for a brother, a mom who acts as his manager and seven blond - headed sisters who seem to be on a break from a musical being filmed on the next soundstage.

That approach includes focusing the spotlight on Evans» character (who leads a rebellion aboard a futuristic train that houses much of humanity in the film's wintery dystopian setting), in order to better utilize his star power as a selling point - in addition to emphasizing the movie's action beats, as accompanied by the expected dramatic musical cues in the post-Inception age of trailers.

Mel Brooks, who made jaws drop with the audaciously tasteless «Springtime for Hitler» musical number at the climax of his 1968 slapstick comedy The Producers, will be on hand at Los Angeles's Aero Theatre this Saturday, May 5, to discuss both that film and Charlie Chaplin's wartime burlesque The Great Dictator, which are showing as a double feature.

Hardcore fans of the show may be annoyed by the musical pieces, so this film is strictly for «South Park» fans who like musicals.

Smartly, the filmmakers — who include screenwriters Jenny Bicks and Bill Condon (the latter directed the live - action Beauty and the Beast and Dreamgirls and wrote the film version of Chicago)-- also know how to keep a four - quadrant family musical from sinking into Chitty territory by employing devices that also will please the Broadway crowd, particularly the Bob Fosse - like opening number as well as sensational choreography throughout.

The decision by Sam Mendes, who helmed the critically acclaimed recent James Bond film Skyfall, to switch to a West End stage musical for his next venture also reinforces this.

Guest director Joshua Oppenheimer, whose wrenching «The Act of Killing» debuted at TFF in 2012, has put together an eclectic program that includes Werner Herzog's 1970 «Even Dwarfs Started Small» (with Herzog in attendance), Jon Bang Carlsen's intriguing and obscure «Hotel of the Stars» (1981), an hour - long Danish documentary about extras who live in a shabby apartment hotel in Hollywood; the only movie directed by Charles Laughton, 1955's exquisitely - shot «The Night of the Hunter,» starring a brilliant, terrifying Robert Mitchum, and fortuitously playing in his centenary year; «Salam Cinema,» Mohsen Makmalbaf's 1995 record of auditions by aspiring actors; a new print of Frederick Wiseman's long - banned, corrosive «Titicut Follies» (1967), filmed in a notorious Massachusetts hospital for the criminally insane; and Jacques Demy's glorious, gorgeous musical, «The Umbrellas of Cherbourg» (1967), starring the glorious, gorgeous Catherine Deneuve.

In an original and electrifying film loaded with live musical performances, Streep stars as Ricki Rendazzo, a guitar heroine who made a world of mistakes as she followed her dreams of rock - and - roll stardom.

But the only sense of wonder the film instils is this: if we have to wait so long between movie musicals, who on earth thought it would be a good idea to wait for this one?

Those who don't own that disc and the other sampled films may be pleased to get 1 -2-minute musical numbers from all three Shrek films, Flushed Away, Over the Hedge, Madagascar, and Shark Tale.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening November 23, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS August Rush (PG for slight violence, mild profanity and mature themes) Freddie Highmore stars as the title character in this escapist fantasy about a promising musical prodigy who runs away from an orphanage to New York City to find his parents (Keri Russell and Jonathan Rhys Myers) only to end up living with a Fagin - like wizard (Robin Williams) and lots of other kids in a makeshift shelter in an abandoned theater which was once the Fillmore East.

It just so happens both films chose to depict the life of a musical artist who was taken from the world far too soon.

The story of four sexy college girls who rob a fast food outlet to fund their Spring Break vacation, the presence of tween icons Selena Gomez (Wizards of Waverly Place) and Vanessa Hudgens (High School Musical) belies the film's seriously twisted approach, albeit one that's made immediately evident once the movie begins via an extensive slow motion montage of drunken beachside revellers abandoning dignity along with their clothes.

In the film, Murray stars as a down - on - his luck music manager who meets a teenage girl and coaches her on a musical reality show similar to «American Idol.»

European titles include La Grande Bouffe, Marco Ferrerri's most notorious film which unsurprisingly never received a theatrical run in Ireland in 1973 (given that it's about four friends who gather together one weekend to eat themselves to death), and Catherine Deneuve in Les Desmoiselles de Rochefort, Jacques Demy's exuberant love letter to American musicals.

But it's Once director John Carney who will kick - start proceedings with his highly anticipated musical film starring Keira Knightley and Adam Levine, Begin Again.

The actress, who appeared alongside Gary Oldman in his Oscar - winning turn as Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour, has been cast in the film musical All You Need Is Love, written by Richard Curtis and directed by Danny Boyle.

The film follows about a young wannabe musician, Jon (Domhnall Gleeson), who finds himself out of his depth when he joins an avant - garde pop band led by the mysterious and enigmatic Frank (Michael Fassbender), a musical genius who hides himself inside -LSB-...]

The lyrical lad of film - making, in the form of Irish writer - director John Carney (who gave us the wonderfully musical drama in 2007's «Once»), is at it again as he brings the continued inspiration of music and motivation in the engagingly festive coming - of - age musical melodrama Sing Street.

I'd like to dedicate this one to the costume designers who don't do films about monarchs and musicals, the designers who do contemporary films.

Karlson developed the film with John Payne, the former star of musicals and light romantic comedies who remade himself as a tough guy star.

Now, another project is surfacing and it could find him working again with an actor who has anchored his more musical - based films.

Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.

The Greatest Showman (2017) Inspired by the imagination of P.T. Barnum, the film is an original musical that celebrates the birth of show business and tells of a visionary who rose from nothing to create a spectacle that became a worldwide sensation: the Barnum & Bailey Circus.