{"id":10034,"date":"2015-08-06T20:30:04","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T01:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=10034"},"modified":"2015-07-27T08:39:16","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T13:39:16","slug":"cabaret-1972-bob-fosse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/10034","title":{"rendered":"Cabaret (1972, Bob Fosse)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oscar for best actress, obviously, and also seven more (director, cinematography, supporting for Joel Grey) but picture went to <em>The Godfather<\/em>.  I don&#8217;t know Liza Minnelli from much &#8211; just this and <em>Arrested Development<\/em> &#8211; but she&#8217;s perfect in both.  The movie though, eh, not my favorite nazi musical.  Could&#8217;ve stood to be more musical, blurrier and more insane a la <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/9302\">All That Jazz<\/a><\/em> (I guess Fosse hadn&#8217;t had his drug-addled breakdown yet).<\/p>\n<p>Brash dancer Minnelli gets a new roommate, closeted scholar Michael York.  Both roomies have affairs with wealthy Max (Helmut Griem of <em>The Damned<\/em> and <em>Les rendez-vous d&#8217;Anna<\/em>) and help to hook up two of York&#8217;s English students (Fritz Wepper of <em>The Bridge<\/em> and Marisa Berenson, wife of Barry Lyndon).  The nazi stuff is less foregrounded than I would&#8217;ve thought &#8211; they&#8217;re slowly going from a violent street cult to the dominant political party in the background of a story full of sympathetic gays and Jews.  Fun times while they lasted, though.  Interesting to watch this right before <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/9940\">Phoenix<\/a><\/em>, eliding the whole war in between.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oscar for best actress, obviously, and also seven more (director, cinematography, supporting for Joel Grey) but picture went to The Godfather. I don&#8217;t know Liza Minnelli from much &#8211; just this and Arrested Development &#8211; but she&#8217;s perfect in both. The movie though, eh, not my favorite nazi musical. Could&#8217;ve stood to be more musical, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[343,400,1854,122,1978,80,248],"class_list":["post-10034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1930s","tag-1970s","tag-bob-fosse","tag-germany","tag-liza-minnelli","tag-musical","tag-nazis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10034"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10095,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10034\/revisions\/10095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}