Console best movie i've ever seen.

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Raymond Sierra The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

jacobs-greenwood This Bob Fosse-directed musical – based on the Tony Award winning Harold 'Hal' Prince-directed Broadway production – features career performances from Liza Minnelli and Joel Grey, both of whom won Academy Awards for their work: Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor, respectively. Grey had also won a Tony, as did Prince, for the movie, and Fosse took home the gold.Minnelli plays Sally Bowles, an American singer - that wants to be an actress - of the seedy Kit Kat Klub in pre-World War II Berlin, a city of decadence and immorality shortly before the Nazi Party rises to power. She befriends Brian Roberts (Michael York), a poor British writer who's just come to town, and the two agree to share a flat. She's lonely, but their relationship is platonic, at least at first. Grey is the flamboyant Emcee at the nightclub.Another friend of Sally's is Fritz Wendel (Fritz Wepper), who's desperately trying to learn proper English – from Brian – and falls for a wealthy Jewish heiress, Natalia Landauer (Marisa Berenson). Shortly after Sally and Brian fall in love with each other, a rich married playboy named Maximilian von Heune (Helmut Griem) 'adopts' them "for kicks", and that's when their relationship troubles begin.The film won Oscars for its Art Direction-Set Decoration, Cinematography, Editing, Musical Score (featuring the title song, "Willkommen" and "Money, Money", among others), and Sound and was nominated for Best Picture and Adapted Screenplay. #5 on AFI's 25 Greatest Movie Musicals list. "Cabaret" is #18 on AFI's 100 Top Movie Songs of All Time. Added to the National Film Registry in 1995.

Prismark10 Those all time best films list will have The Godfather listed in one of the top 5 positions. The Godfather won 3 Oscars that included the Best Picture category. Cabaret won 8 Oscars including Best Director for Bob Fosse.You might think that back in the day that Academy voters would be elderly and conservative. They gave the top Oscars that year to a violent grandiose gangster thriller and the first X Rated musical.Cabaret adapts the stories of Christopher Isherwood with a heavy dose of the late 1960s counterculturalism and Bob Fosse's unique dancing choreography.It is set in a Hedonistic part of Germany of the 1930s. There is rampant hyperinflation, economic misery but the Kit Kat Club set in the seedy part of the city has an anything goes attitude where you can forget the troubles around you. Trouble is rising, the Nazis are growing in strength and this film shows it. Ordinary people suddenly finding their message palatable and suddenly sing nostalgic songs with the Hitler Youth.Those of the upper class who thought the Nazis will get rid of the communists realised that it was too late. Who would get rid of the Nazis. The film deals with antisemitism and the vicious thugs who beat up those who stand in their way.Micheal York plays Brian the young English middle class man who has come to Berlin to teach and meets the decadent Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli), a decadent, free spirited American would be actress whose father is a diplomat. She is somewhat needy for attention, especially if the men are wealthy.She befriends who we discover is gay and later both have an affair with a wealthy German Baron.There is also another side plot of one of Brian's student, a gigolo falling for a rich heiress who is Jewish.The central plank of the film is the cabaret numbers at the Kit Kat Club itself introduced by the Emcee (Joel Grey) who also performs the gaudy, bawdy numbers and sketches including women wrestling in mud. We get big show numbers like 'Money Makes The World Go Round' and 'Bye Bye Mein Herr' that depicts the depravity experienced by some in 1930s Berlin. A shock to Brian who finds himself sharing a urinal with a transvestite one night.However the cabaret adapts to the changing face of Germany while the Emcee makes caustic messages through the song and dance routines such as the man who has fallen in love with an ape. The cabaret is really like the chorus in a Greek play. Minnelli and Grey won Oscars for their roles which included song and dance. For Minnelli this was the star making role for her allowing her to step out of the shadows of her famous parents. Yet York gets overlooked, he brings the right amount of vulnerability to his role. It really his coming of age story and we can see that in the end as he gets on the train as a changed man.

LeonLouisRicci No matter what Your Opinion of this Musical-Drama Gem, it Stands Alone amidst a Genre with its Ultra-Stylish Expressive Entry that is Like No Other. Bob Fosse made Few Movies (his heart was definitely in the Theatre) but Almost All of them are Excellent.This One may be the Most Excellent. It's fine Cast are Alluring and Fosse's Camera says in no uncertain terms "I am Camera" and will not be Denied. The Editing is Distinctive as it Links the "Real Life" Political and Social Concerns of the Day with the Rise of the Nazis in 1930 Germany. The on Stage Numbers seem to profoundly Defy the "Brown Shirts".That Defiance is Intercut as the Film Peppers back and forth between the Stage and the Street Brutality frequently and is Powerful the way it Hammers the Surreal with the Real. Almost All of the Musical Numbers are Displayed Distinctively as Reflections of the Undeniable that something Devastating is Happening to the Country and its People.Its People are in a Decadent Mood and the Cabaret is where They go to Display and Play. Liza Minnelli is the Fulcrum the Film finds its Message and its Story. She is Simply "Divine" as the Playfully and Aloof Sally Bowles as She Parties like there is No Tomorrow. Speaking of Tomorrow...If the Song "Tomorrow Belongs to Me" doesn't send Chills to Your Sensibilities and Receptors, You're not paying Attention and are Heartless. In Fact, many of the Songs are Sublime Recreations of the Human Condition and are Classic Pop Culture Contaminants that Entertain and Posses. The Film is Possessed and Joel Grey as the Devil Incarnate Winks at the Audience as He Unveils Their Sins and Relishes that the Nazis are even more Corrupt than the Patrons.

Irishchatter I have to say, I thought the storyline was all the place because i didn't know much German and it was difficult for me to understand on what the characters were saying really. The only person I understood more in the film was Liza Minnelli because i find that she spoke more clearer then the rest of them. It wouldn't make any difference if she was Amercian or not, she was more on the ball. Although I found the storyline really boring, the music really stood me out. I honestly loved 'Maybe This Time' since it is a very well known song and of course it was covered many times by different artists including the TV show 'Glee'. I wouldn't call this a best musical movie I've ever seen but I applaud the music that was involved in it!