Decades of musicals research
From The Star And Shadow Cinema Wiki
1930s
Top Hat Rights are being renegotiated by the BFI as I type. Won't be good for a few months.
Gold Diggers of 1937 - in BFI catalogue
The Wizard of Oz1939 Victor Fleming
Babes in Toyland 1934 Gus Meins / Charley Rogers. Laurel+Hardy
Bright Eyes 1934 David Butler ("On the Good Ship Lollipop" - Shirley Temple - won a juvenile oscar.)
De Blaue Engel 1930 Josef von Sternberg
42nd Street 1933 Lloyd Bacon
1940s
42ND St Waiting to hear back from Warner Brothers who have the rights I think
Carefree BFI have a 16mm print BUT are renegotiating rights - will be able to tell us more in a month.
Shall we dance and swing time they should be with BBC Programme Acquisitions whom I have never dealt with before - am leaving lots of voicemails but not getting very far at the minute! Am still trying with this one.
Have not tried Roberta yet but will tomorrow.
Cover Girl 1944, director Vidor
Bathing Beauty
For Me and My Gal 1942, dir Busby Berkeley, judy garland/gene kelly
Babes on Broadway 1941, dir busby berkeley, judy garland/mickey rooney. controversial 'blackface' routine at the end.
Easter Parade 1948 - astaire/garland
On the Town 1949 Donen/Kelly
1950s
Singing in the Rain 1952 Gene Kelly/Stanley Donen
An American in Paris 1951, Vincente Minnelli
South Pacific 1958 Joshua Logan
Gigi 1958 Vincente Minnelli
Carousel 1956 Henry King
Million Dollar Mermaid 1952 Mervyn LeRoy (was hard to find at side)
Moulin Rouge 1952 John Huston (oscar winner)
Guys and Dolls 1955 Joseph L. Mankiewicz - will be with Park circus in 2010.
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 1954 Stanley Donen
Oklahoma! 1955 Fred Zinnemann
The King and I 1956 Walter Lang
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T 1953 Roy Rowland (Michelle Hirschhorn tried to programme this at Side I think?)
Brigadoon 1954 Vincente Minnelli
Calamity Jane 1953 David Butler - available from Park Circus
1960s
How to Suceed in business1967, David Swift - park circus catalogue
West Side Story 1961 Jerome Robbins / Robert Wise
Funny Girl 1968 William Wyler (story written by Isobel Lennart)(Streisand)
Goodbye, Mr. Chips 1969 Herbert Ross (this is not the 1930s film but musical version)
Hello, Dolly! 1969 Gene Kelly (Streisand)
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini 1965 William Asher (one of the Beach Party films)
Cinderfella 1960 Frank Tashlin (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
The Unsinkable Molly Brown 1964 Charles Walters
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 1968 Ken Hughes
Doctor Dolittle 1967 Richard Fleischer (It was photographed in 70 mm Todd-AO by Robert Surtees for the geeks)
Finian's Rainbow 1968 Francis Ford Coppola
Mary Poppins 1964 Robert Stevenson (err...)
Parapluies de Cherbourg 1964 Jacques Demy (was this shown at Side? Does anyone know of the sequel?! Is it a vicious rumour??)
Oliver! 1968 Carol Reed
Une femme est une femme 1961 Jean Luc Godard
1970s
Bedknobs and Broomsticks 1971 Robert Stevenson (oooh...disney warning lights)
Fiddler on the roof 1971 Norman Jewison (do you think his jewish...?)
The First Nudie Musical 1976 Mark Haggard / Bruce Kimmel - cult classic, sounds terrible... ("sounds amazing" - Craig!)
Rock 'n' Roll High School 1979 Allan Arkush- shown at side
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory 1971 Mel Stuart
The Magic Flute 1975 Ingmar Bergman (have we shown it? does it count?)
Phantom of the Paradise 1974 Brian de Palma (completely mad cult classic - made one year before Rocky Horror)
New York New York 1977, Martin Scorsese
(Grease and other such nonsense)
1980s
Flashdance 1983 Adrian Lyne
Yentl1983 Barbra Streisand
Purple rain1984 Albert Magnoli (the Prince one!)
An American Tail 1986 Don Bluth (Ilana's fav, a Spielberg production, not disney)
The Pirate Movie 1982 Ken Annakin. Nominated for 9 Golden Raspberry Awards of which it won 3 inc worst director, worst 'original' song for Pumpin' and Blowin'
Xanadu 1980 Robert Greenwald (olivia newton John. sounds terrible but funny)
Absolute Beginners 1986 Julien Temple
Nayakan 1987 Mani Ratman WHAT ABOUT MORE BOLLYWOOD IDEAS??
1990s
The Line, the Cross & the Curve 1993 Kate Bush. Short From wikipedia: co-starring Miranda Richardson featuring music from Bush's album The Red Shoes, which was inspired by the classic movie of the same name. It was released on VHS in the UK in 1994 and also received a small number of cinema screenings around the world. Overall it was a critical failure. In recent interviews, Bush has said that she considers it a failure, and stated in 2001: "I'm very pleased with four minutes of it, but I'm very disappointed with the rest."[70]. In a 2005 interview she went as far as to describe the film as "A load of bollocks"[71].
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert 1994 Stephan Elliott
Topsy Turvy 1999 Mike Leigh
2000s
Dancer in The Dark 2000 Lars von Trier
Hedwig and the Angry Inch 2001 John Cameron Mitchell (no relation)
One Night The Moon 2001 Rachel Perkins http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Night_the_Moon Might be interesting for COTW too?
Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem 2003 (think we showed this already)
8 Femmes 2002 Francois Ozon
Ilana, hAZ- If you put suggestions here with the year and directors with the title I shall continue searching - debbie x
Ilana, hAZ- If you put suggestions here with the year and directors with the title I shall continue searching - debbie x