What a beautiful documentary. I just LOVED IT. No praise is enough. I just can't wait for the second part. Thank you very much for this great content. Did I say I love it?
Great video great work - one of the last good musicals I remember on film was 1968's "Oliver!" deserving of Best Picture and it's 6 Oscars, plus it was a financial hit. a year later I saw what I thought killed film musicals "Hello Dolly!" - absolutely dreadful.
Very good video. I find it shocking that Damien Chazelle claims that An American in Paris influenced La La Land so much. Among the lessons Chazelle clearly did not learn were a) cast as leads people who have actual dance training, and b) the lighting of dance numbers should make the dancing relatively easy to see, not occurring in shadows that hide the dancers' movements. (On point (a), Stone and Gosling are very talented actors, and I have no doubt that they worked very hard on the dance numbers, but in the film you could still feel the counting -- 1 and 2 and turn and step and look two beats and kick and . . . -- when, in contrast, trained dancers make it look both spontaneous and "easy.")
People need to remember that prior to being hemmed in by sound, silent directors were taking cinema to very artistic heights. Audio equipment was almost unwieldy When Shearer, et al, came up with studio dubbing movies were able to continue their upward creative trajectory. Many early sound movies look flat and stage-like, because of the audio equipment
Great video. Some mention could be made of Disney's films. they weren't nominated for best picture during his lifetime, probably because they were animated. But Snow White had a huge effect on the musicals that came after it. The Wizard of Oz was made because of Snow White's success.
Man, why did you block comments on your excellent Alian Delon docu!? You did such a good job. YT comments are arguably the most important creative sources for people communicating freely from the heart! Please reconsider and let us free on Alain Delon. Thank you 🙃
I have to agree with most of the reviews for The Broadway melody, its BP win is one of those that make sense in the context it was given but as film hasn't aged well at all. A musical movie from that same year that's actually better done is Pál Fejös' Broadway, technically more impressive and slightly better written and acted than BM.
"BROADWAY MELODY," I LOVE THE FILM ! Everything is great. Oh, yeah, I've seen High School Musicals that were performed better, but consider with High School Musicals generally the audience knows the performers. There is a bias. "BROADWAY MELODY" everything was new. Even the music 🎶 all "jazzed-up." Forget not. Audience for the most part, had memories of the insane horror of human cruelty, the "GREAT WAR." (=WW1). Living in the "roaring twenties," almost everything was new, from neon light to motorcycles; commercial air travel, ha ! ha ! talking pictures. All jazzed-up, w/new words and ideas. "WE" could have enjoyed the computer age, but for pathological insanity of greed. Corruption and hypocrisy so astonishingly (joke=) public it would enbarrass the devil 😈 ! See story of the rich man, ..."'Fool ! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have repared, whose will they be ? So is the one who lays up treasure for himself' and is not rich toward GOD."
What a beautiful documentary. I just LOVED IT. No praise is enough. I just can't wait for the second part. Thank you very much for this great content. Did I say I love it?
CAN'T WAIT FOR PART II!!!!
Great video great work - one of the last good musicals I remember on film was 1968's "Oliver!" deserving of Best Picture and it's 6 Oscars, plus it was a financial hit. a year later I saw what I thought killed film musicals "Hello Dolly!" - absolutely dreadful.
Very good video. I find it shocking that Damien Chazelle claims that An American in Paris influenced La La Land so much. Among the lessons Chazelle clearly did not learn were a) cast as leads people who have actual dance training, and b) the lighting of dance numbers should make the dancing relatively easy to see, not occurring in shadows that hide the dancers' movements.
(On point (a), Stone and Gosling are very talented actors, and I have no doubt that they worked very hard on the dance numbers, but in the film you could still feel the counting -- 1 and 2 and turn and step and look two beats and kick and . . . -- when, in contrast, trained dancers make it look both spontaneous and "easy.")
Thanks so much for all your hard work on this! This is a wonderful and very insightful video!
I just discovered this account! so informative and interesting- thank you!
Just found the channel, this is so well written and put together!! Looking forward to part 2!
Still looking forward to Part 2!!! Hope you’re well
People need to remember that prior to being hemmed in by sound, silent directors were taking cinema to very artistic heights.
Audio equipment was almost unwieldy
When Shearer, et al, came up with studio dubbing movies were able to continue their upward creative trajectory.
Many early sound movies look flat and stage-like, because of the audio equipment
Great video. Some mention could be made of Disney's films. they weren't nominated for best picture during his lifetime, probably because they were animated. But Snow White had a huge effect on the musicals that came after it. The Wizard of Oz was made because of Snow White's success.
I love your videos! Thank you❤
Man, why did you block comments on your excellent Alian Delon docu!? You did such a good job. YT comments are arguably the most important creative sources for people communicating freely from the heart! Please reconsider and let us free on Alain Delon. Thank you 🙃
That’s exactly what I came to this video to say haha
has part 2 been posted yet?
No. I think this channel has been abandoned.
Saint Louie
I have to agree with most of the reviews for The Broadway melody, its BP win is one of those that make sense in the context it was given but as film hasn't aged well at all. A musical movie from that same year that's actually better done is Pál Fejös' Broadway, technically more impressive and slightly better written and acted than BM.
"BROADWAY MELODY," I LOVE THE FILM ! Everything is great. Oh, yeah, I've seen High School Musicals that were performed better, but consider with High School Musicals generally the audience knows the performers. There is a bias. "BROADWAY MELODY" everything was new. Even the music 🎶 all "jazzed-up." Forget not. Audience for the most part, had memories of the insane horror of human cruelty, the "GREAT WAR." (=WW1). Living in the "roaring twenties," almost everything was new, from neon light to motorcycles; commercial air travel, ha ! ha ! talking pictures. All jazzed-up, w/new words and ideas. "WE" could have enjoyed the computer age, but for pathological insanity of greed. Corruption and hypocrisy so astonishingly (joke=) public it would enbarrass the devil 😈 ! See story of the rich man, ..."'Fool ! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have repared, whose will they be ? So is the one who lays up treasure for himself' and is not rich toward GOD."
Come back.
Anyone today who likes Gigi must be on “the registry.” Can’t stand that movie!
Script is thin. Outrageously heterosexual. But in its time, it won. I am glad we moved on.
Why put in bold type across scenes of the Jazz Singer - it's also racist?