Welcome to our epic list of the best movie musicals of all time. If you like great music tied into the story of a movie with great acting, you’ll love this thorough list. 50. Dancer in the Dark (2000) Directed by Lars von Trier Signature Song: “I’ve Seen It All” Who says people in a …
John, Paul, George, Ringo, and Brian? Beatles fans will forever debate who the Fifth Beatle was. Some will argue it was George Martin, who was responsible for so many of the sonic flourishes and orchestrations on all The Beatles albums. Pete Best was originally the band’s drummer before being kicked out for Ringo (good call). …
There was something in the air when Jean-Luc Godard took up the political banner of the late 1960s and shifted his filmmaking focus in terms of storytelling style and stories told, and in a general sense of formal reevaluation and reinvention.
Deadline reported Wednesday that Ron Howard, director of Rush, A Beautiful Mind and The DaVinci Code, will helm a documentary on the early years of The Beatles. The film will focus on the years of 1960 to 1966, taking viewers through their formative days playing skiffle and at The Cavern Club in Liverpool all the …
The release of The Jungle Book on Blu-ray today has become, as when Saving Mr. Banks was unveiled a couple months ago, an unplanned forum on a most thorny issue for the Disney uber-fan: was Walt Disney a racist/sexist/anti-Semite, and if so, was he a super-racist/sexist/anti-Semite, or just your average, garden-variety racist/sexist/anti-Semite? Even though the …
Variety reports: “Disney and director Robert Zemeckis are negotiating to remake Yellow Submarine, the 1968 psychedelic animated film based on the music of The Beatles… The studio has been quietly brokering a complicated rights deal that would give Zemeckis access to 16 original Beatles songs for a movie he will direct in the performance-capture 3-D …