Saturday, April 23, 2011

films with dance in them

42nd street (1933)
busby berkeley writing with bodies...
gold diggers of 1933 (1933)
more busby berkeley
the red shoes (1948)
still probably the greatest dance film ever...
an american in paris (1951)
long long long wonderful dance sequence
hans christian anderson (1952)
stunning "little mermaid" ballet sequence
singin' in the rain (1952)
gene kelly & cyd charisse
the band wagon (1953)
astaire as a hoofer and charisse as a ballerina, can they dance together?
saturday night fever (1977)
floaty seventies dresses too
all that jazz (1979)
bob fosse's magnum opus
fame (1980)
lee-roy and hillary!
flashdance (1983)
she's a welder by day and a dancer by night...
footloose (1984)
why you can't outlaw dance
the company (2003)
robert altman gives it a go
la danse - le ballet de l'opéra de paris (2009)
159 minutes of amazingness

these are all great films, some of them have a bad reputation, very unjustifiably...

1 comment:

  1. Nice! Hope I get around to watching some of these one day...was trying to get through the red shoes but realise was pushing it too far with partner. Love your photographs too - great eye. -liyen x

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