It’s a cliche to say that setting a story in New York turns the city into an important character within the movie’s firmament.
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Category: Remember All the Movies, Terry, We’d Go See
Lyle, Lyle, Dramaturgy
A musical’s primary dramaturgy is rooted in which parts of the story the composers decide to set to music.
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The “Greatest” Showmen
Does anyone else find it weird that Pasek and Paul scored two straight movie musicals with basically the same plots?
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This Way to the Missionary
In my 32 year lifetime, has anyone converted more adolescent disciples to the religion of Musicals than Idina Menzel?
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Starring Staring
Noémie Merlant is becoming cinema’s foremost starer.
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Something in the Nope
How would 21st century cash-strapped Americans respond if they encountered the supernatural?
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Allow Me to Reintroduce Myself
My name is critique, oh!
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Culpability
Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge is at least the third example in six months of artists using their latest work to stage explicit self-castigations of their own past work.
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Voodoo, Indeed
When playing a celebrity, actors can don one of three general approaches:
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Hysteriacal
Terrifier 2 has Charlie Chaplin’s Tramp written all over it.
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