The movie is a remake, of course, of Al Jolson’s 1927 “The Jazz Singer,” which was the first commercially successful talking picture. The remake has played with time in an interesting way: It sets the story in the present, but it places the characters in some kind of time warp. ...
The Jazz Singer (1927) Willard Louis Matthew Garner Babbitt (1924) Louise Fazenda Madame Mathilde The Bat (1926) Gardner James Philip Garth Hell-Bent fer Heaven (1926) Jane Winton The Leading Lady Sunrise (1927) Holmes Herbert Erwen (as Holmes E. Herbert) Dr. Jekyll and Mr...
The plot would be. Act I About two years afterKing TritongaveAriel, his youngest daughter, a human body so she could marry the love of her life,Prince Eric, Ariel has officially become the princess consort of Eric's kingdom and has given birth to a beautiful baby girl,Melody, the first...
“Wild Animals” is a fuck you that places a smoky jazz piano next to a chaise longue. “I never got to tell you just how I feel,” she sings. She’s almost laughing. Bet you can guess what happens next. –Sophie Kemp Further Reading: “R&B Experimentalist Liv.e Sings Through the...
Set in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, the movie chronicles the lopsided friendship that develops between a gay singer Mario (Manuel Bandera), his straight crush (Angel de Andres Lopez), and the beautiful folk singer who holds them all together (Angela Molina) through the morass of ...
1. IntroductionMoulin Rouge! is the third film from Baz Luhrmann, a genius director who is known for his obsession with theatrical styles. His other most famous works includes Romeo + Juliet, Australia and the latest The Great Gatsby. He is believed to be largely influenced by Italian grand ...
Chadwick Boseman's final movie role was in this Netflix original, which is based on the Tony-nominated August Wilson play. Viola Davis stars as Ma Rainey, a powerhouse blues singer in 1927 Chicago who holds up a recording session to butt heads with her white manager, and Boseman plays a ...
Released just two weeks before “The Jazz Singer,” F.W. Murnau’s turbulent love-triangle drama marked the pinnacle of silent expressionism, including dramatic lighting (a signature of German directors at the time, imported here to Hollywood), elaborate tracking shots and impressive in-camera eff...
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You generally have to wait more than a decade for a new James Cameron movie to come along, but luckily everything that the director makes is worth talking about. So, while the plot of his 2009 record-breaker is a tad forgettable – a human soldier falls in love with a giant blue alien...