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Disco Dancer is a 1982 Bollywood movie starring Mithun Chakraborty. It is notable for having been popular in both India and the Soviet Union during the 1980s. The film tells the rags-to-riches story of a young street performer. Today, the movie has become a cult phenomenon among many generations of Indians who grew up in the 80s and remember the classic I am a Disco Dancer song. The movie was a musical blockbuster and cemented music director Bappi Lahiri’s talents in Bollywood.Read More »
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Babbar Subhash – Disco Dancer (1983)
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Jim Sharman – Shock Treatment (1981)
1981-1990CultJim SharmanMusicalUSAQuote:
Following on from “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”, this musical is set several years later in Brad and Janet Majors’ hometown – which has become a giant TV station; residents are either participants or viewers. They are married now, but their romance has fallen on the rocks. Ostensibly to fix their marriage, Brad is imprisoned on the program “Dentonvale” (the local mental hospital) while Janet is conscripted to become a new star. As Janet is entranced by the high life, she forgets Brad. Who is trying to woo her away?Read More » -
Sergei Parajanov – Pervyy paren aka The First Lad (1959)
1951-1960ComedyMusicalSergei ParajanovUSSRAlso know as “The Top Guy” and “The First Lad” , “Pervyy paren” is Sergei Paradjanov’s first solo film made for Dovzhenko studios! A musical comedy in the tradition of Russian propaganda films (very much in the tradition of Dovzhenko actually), with beautifully lush cinematography, colors and “mise-en-scene” – Not to be missed!Read More »
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Eizô Sugawa – Nihonjin no heso AKA The Japanese Belly Button (1977)
Eizô Sugawa1971-1980ComedyJapanMusicalHelen and her associates stage a confession play in order to remedy stuttering, but things go amiss.Read More »
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Alain Corneau – Tous les matins du monde AKA All the Mornings of the World (1991)
Alain Corneau1991-2000DramaFranceMusicalSynopsis:
It’s late 17th century. The viola da gamba player Monsieur de Sainte Colombe comes home to find that his wife died while he was away. In his grief he builds a small house in his garden into wich he moves to dedicate his life to music and his two young daughters Madeleine and Toinette, avoiding the outside world. Rumor about him and his music is widespread, and even reaches to the court of Louis XIV, who wants him at his court in Lully’s orchestra, but Monsieur de Sainte Colombe refuses. One day a young man, Marin Marais, comes to see him with a request, he wants to be taught how to play the viol.Read More » -
Benjamin Stoloff – Happy Days (1929)
Benjamin Stoloff1921-1930MusicalUSAOriginally titled New Orleans Frolic, the story centers around Margie (played by Marjorie White), a singer on a showboat who goes to make her fortune in New York City, despite being in love with the boat owner’s grandson. Although successful in the city, when she hears that the showboat is in financial trouble she calls all the boat’s former stars to perform in a show to rescue it.Read More »
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Yasujirô Shimazu – Dansei tai josei AKA Men vs Women (1936)
Yasujiro Shimazu1931-1940JapanMusicalRomanceA musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku’s Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.Read More »
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Miguel Gomes – Entretanto (1999)
Miguel Gomes1991-2000MusicalPortugalShort FilmThree youths, an androgynous girl and two boys, circle around each other in love: during rugby training, at a pool party and on the beach. Three-way kisses, mean words and half-serious scuffles. Surreal snapshots almost without words, accompanied by the Kinks and Doris Day.Read More »
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Juliana Rojas – Sinfonia da Necrópole AKA Necropolis Symphony (2014)
Juliana Rojas2011-2020BrazilComedyMusicalIn the city of São Paulo, the routine of gravedigger apprentice Deodato changes when a new working girl arrives at the cemetery. Together, they must re-register the abandoned tombs, but strange events make the apprentice wonder about the consequences of messing with the dead.Read More »