Musical Mutations: Before, Beyond and Against Hollywood (Adrian Martin)
All films listed in Adrian Martin's essay "Musical Mutations: Before, Beyond and Against Hollywood" as it appears in "Movie Mutations."
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- DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsAnna KarinaJean-Claude BrialyJean-Paul BelmondoAn exotic dancer is desperate to become a mother and accepts her reluctant boyfriend's suggestion that she be impregnated by his best friend.
- DirectorLars von TrierStarsBjörkCatherine DeneuveDavid MorseAn Eastern European US immigrant with a love for musicals has to cope with the gradual loss of her vision.
- DirectorEdgar G. UlmerBen-Zvi BaratoffOssip DymowStarsMoyshe OysherMiriam RiselleFlorence WeissMoishe Oysher gives his most robust performance as a passionate shtetl blacksmith who must struggle against temptation to become a mensch. Ulmer's film is a musical version of David Pinski's classic 1906 play Yankl der Schmid."Edgar Ulmer's independently produced Yiddish musicals of the 30s"
- DirectorDana RangaStarsMargarita AndrushkovichChris DoerkErich GuskoA look at Communist musicals that strove to be ideologically correct - and entertaining, besides."the Communist musicals featured in..."
- DirectorKrishna ShahStarsAmitabh BachchanZeenat AmanDharmendraDirector Shah Krishna compiled this compelling documentary of Indian cinema after spending two years searching through film archives from all over the world. Included are films from the turn of the 20th century through the 1970s to illustrate various schools of filmmaking and the historical progression of the art form.
- DirectorErnst LubitschStarsMaurice ChevalierClaudette ColbertMiriam HopkinsAn amorous lieutenant is forced to marry a socially awkward princess, though he tries to keep his violin-playing girlfriend on the side.Lubitsch musicals of the 30s
- DirectorKing VidorStarsDaniel L. HaynesNina Mae McKinneyWilliam FountaineA sharecropper decides to become a preacher after falling for a vamp from the city.King Vidor musicals
- DirectorJoseph B. VasquezStarsGeorge PerezLumi CavazosMarco LeonardiA young immigrant arrives to New York with the dream of dancing on Broadway.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsDean MartinJerry LewisShirley MacLaineRick Todd uses the dreams of his roommate Eugene as the basis for a successful comic book."Dean Martin/Jerry Lewis comedies... [featuring] song and dance numbers"
- DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsElvis PresleyJudy TylerMickey ShaughnessyAfter serving time for manslaughter, young Vince Everett becomes a teenage rock star."Elvis Presley movies... [featuring] song and dance numbers"
- DirectorAllan DavidWilliam J. Hole Jr.StarsLouis PrimaJune WilkinsonSam ButeraSam Butera and the Witnesses perform several Twist numbers to save a small New Orleans nightclub and raise the bail to get Louis Prima out of jail.rock-and-roll exploitation films
- DirectorRoy RowlandStarsPeter Lind HayesMary HealyHans ConriedA young boy dreams that he is in an imaginary world where, assisted by his family's plumber, he must save other piano-playing kids like himself from the dungeons of his dictatorial piano teacher who also mind-controls his mother.
- DirectorVincente MinnelliStarsGene KellyVan JohnsonCyd CharisseTwo Americans on a hunting trip in Scotland become lost. They encounter a small village, not on the map, called Brigadoon, in which people harbor a mysterious secret, and behave as if they were still living two hundred years in the past.
- DirectorStanley DonenGene KellyStarsGene KellyDonald O'ConnorDebbie ReynoldsA silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his delusionally jealous screen partner are trying to make the difficult transition to talking pictures in 1920s Hollywood.
- DirectorVincente MinnelliStarsJudy GarlandMargaret O'BrienMary AstorYoung love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family.
- DirectorJerome RobbinsRobert WiseStarsNatalie WoodGeorge ChakirisRichard BeymerTwo youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.
- DirectorStanley DonenStarsJane PowellHoward KeelJeff RichardsWhen a backwoodsman in 1850s Oregon brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that they want to get married too.
- DirectorFrank OzStarsRick MoranisEllen GreeneVincent GardeniaA nerdy florist finds his chance for success and romance with the help of a giant man-eating plant who demands to be fed.
- DirectorDavid O'MalleyStarsLorraine MastersonJoy CurtisStephanie JonesEmily Ann, an innocent Iowa farm girl turned lethal mistress of the martial arts is recruited to stop a crazed Nazi pianist suspected of murdering fashion models to avenge the death of his beloved basset hound.
- DirectorCory McAbeeStarsCory McAbeeRocco SistoGregory Russell CookSamuel Curtis, an interplanetary trader, sets forth through a rustic and remote solar system, unaware that his old friend Professor Hess is trying to kill him.
- DirectorMel BrooksStarsZero MostelGene WilderDick ShawnA stage-play producer devises a plan to make money by producing a sure-fire flop.
- DirectorJacques DemyStarsCatherine DeneuveGeorge ChakirisFrançoise DorléacTwo sisters leave their small seaside town of Rochefort in search of romance. Hired as carnival singers, one falls for an American musician, while the other must search for her ideal partner.Jacques Demy musicals
- DirectorDon WeisStarsDonald O'ConnorDebbie ReynoldsUna MerkelMelvin, a photographer for "Look" magazine, meets Judy and wants to marry her. Her father is against that and as a last resort, Melvin promises to get Judy's photo on the cover of the next issue, a task easier said than done.
- DirectorStanley DonenStarsMarge ChampionGower ChampionDebbie ReynoldsBroadway choreographer Ted Sturgis auditions dancers for a new musical after the lead walks out, with talent ranging from a ballerina to an untrained novice and his former partner, a retired star.
- DirectorMarcel VarnelStarsArthur AskeyJack Hylton and His BandRichard MurdochA plot involving spies in a haunted castle gives this team of celebrated British wireless comedians plenty of scope for laughs.