Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
Brian De Palma's 1974 cult musical horror. Faust crossed with Phantom of the Opera.
1970sBrian De Palma's 1974 cult musical horror. Faust crossed with Phantom of the Opera.
2000sRob Marshall's 2002 jazz-age murder musical. Won six Academy Awards including Best Picture.
1960s1961 Robbins-Wise adaptation of the Sondheim-Bernstein stage musical. Romeo and Juliet on Manhattan streets.
1970sBob Fosse's 1979 autobiographical musical about his own self-destruction. Roy Scheider as the Fosse stand-in.
1950sVincente Minnelli's 1951 Gershwin musical. Gene Kelly as American painter in Paris.
1930sThe Cheek to Cheek number is canonical. Their fifth collaboration and their best.
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2010s
1950sDonen and Kelly's 1952 musical comedy about the talkie transition. Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds.
2010sFrozen 2 is the sequel to the 2013 Walt Disney Animation Studios film that became the highest-grossing animated film of all time. Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee co-directed.
2000sA Knight's Tale is what happens when a writer-director decides to make a medieval film while refusing to take medieval films seriously. Brian Helgeland wrote and directed.
1980sLabyrinth is the strangest mainstream studio film of 1986 and the last great Jim Henson production. Terry Jones, of Monty Python.
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