Post 3: My favorite movie

I can honestly say that i'm an avid movie fanatic. Over the last couple of years i've broadneded my horizons, exploring foreign cinema, musicals, indie movies, classics, comedies and so on in all kinds of genres, so it's hard for me to decide which one it's my favorite.

I think my personal favorite is "Cabaret" (1972), a musical drama film, directed by Bob Fosse, and starring Liza Minnelli, Michael York, and Joel Grey.  It's based on the Christopher Isherwood novella ‘Goodbye to Berlin’, and the Druten play ‘I am a Camera’. The show is set in a nightclub in 1930s Berlin just as the Nazi party begin to rise to power. It is based in nightlife at the seedy Kit Kat Klub, and revolves around the 19-year-old English cabaret performer Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli) and her relationship with the young American writer Cliff Bradshaw (Michael York).

I love Sally Bowles, which is a fantastic character. She's very bohemian, careless and always wants to enjoy the present and everything. She sleeps arounds and drink too much but she likes her life. She's desperate to become a movie star, something that she will probably never be.

Cabaret has also something to say about the rise of National Socialism. While other musicals are froth and bubble, Cabaret is actually terrifying while being catchy at the same time. The songs aren't just musical numbers dropped in for audience members who like a good tune, they have an important thing to say about the history.

It’s complex and interesting and beautiful and ugly all at the same time. None of the characters are two-dimensional, and nothing that happens in the story has less than three implications. Everything in the film contradicts something else in it. The first line uttered in it is something like “Leave your troubles outside,” but we learn pretty quickly that leaving your trouble outside is an impossibility. Cabaret is the very best thing a piece of art can be: It’s interesting. Great film.

On the other hand, the last movie i saw it's Billy Wilder's "The Front Page" (1974), a black comedy starring Walter Matthau and Jack Lemon, which it's about a couple of ruthless 1920's Chicago's journalists, they believe that together can cover any story. I highly recommend it, Funny, funny film about politics and newspapers and some the the early seventies best actors.