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As my title says, this is not a review but a comment about one person in the movie. Sigrid von Richthoven, nee Johansson, is one of the women who live in the boarding house where Sally (Liza) lives. She is elderly and dances with one of the other women. What you may not know is that she sang Marie in the world premiere of the Alban Berg opera Wozzeck. She died not too long after Cabaret was made, but what a wonderful vignette from a major artist of the past.
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Whoever is responsible for the video quality of this DVD should be ashamed. A great movie is ruined because of the graininess of the picture. I sold my copy and am waiting for someone to wake up and give us what this movie deserves.
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`Cabaret' is one of my all time favorite movies and is my favorite musical every recorded to film. It is, with all due respect, a perfect film. It's witty and charming, much like you'd expect from a film in this genre. The music is entertaining and wild, much in the vein of the recent `Chicago'. The acting is top notch and to a degree downright iconic (Liza Minnelli gives one of my favorite female performances ever here). What sets `Cabaret' apart from the rest though is that it is far more than just a good time musical for it breaches deeper and darker subjects like racism, loneliness, unwanted pregnancy and some `taboos' as well. It manages to deal with these concerns beautifully and delicately.
The film is based on `The Berlin Stories' by Christopher Isherwood and revolves around a young man named Brian who moves to Berlin in the early 30's. He rents a room across from the eccentric and spirited Sally Bowles. Sally works at the Kit Kat Klub, a local Cabaret theater. Sally is aggressive and desiring and soon Brian falls in love with her. The film presents many tests to their relationship including a Baron who falls in love with not only Sally but Brian as well. As Nazi power rises in Berlin trouble arises as well for not only our two main stars but their close associates as well.
The Cabaret, a free spirited form of expression, is used throughout the film to address the current feelings or mood the film is attempting to get across. There are musical numbers poking fun at the Nazi regime, numbers addressing the destructive power of greed as well as the love triangle. As you watch you will see how the events taking place outside the Klub coincide with the musical numbers taking place within.
The acting is astounding here. Liza Minnelli is of course the HUGE standout but fellow Oscar winner Joel Grey is electrifying as The Master of Ceremonies. They play off one another brilliantly and serve up one of the greatest on-screen teams of all time. As they prance around the stage in perfect unison singing songs like `Money' the audience is deadlocked on their every move and even apart they are astounding. Joel Grey parades about the stage in numbers like `Two Ladies' with such comedic grace that he comes off like a singing Charlie Chaplin and Liza Minnelli is so musically talented that when she belts out her final song you are dying to hear some more. Michael York does a fine job with his role but he has no chance when sharing the screen with Minnelli of standing out, she is far too magnetic.
In the end all I can say is that `Cabaret' is orgasmically good. Bob Fosse directed a pure masterpiece here that in any other year would have won the top prize (as much as I LOVE this film I can't deny that `The Godfather' is the better film). If you haven't seen this film yet (and you may not have, it took me a long time to get around to it) please see it immediately. If you are a fan of recent musicals like `Moulin Rouge!' or `Chicago' then you will adore this film for it far surpasses those very films we've come to know and love.
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I've bought the DVD CABARET from you and it seems like it's not an original. It's dark and can't be seeing properly
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I won't go into Cabaret's worth as entertainment here - suffice to say that I think it's a wonderful film, adapted from Christopher Isherwood's Berlin stories and well worth 5 stars. But in this review I'm focusing on the technical aspects which I feel detract from the DVD.
This DVD (ASIN: B00009Y3L4) features a 'matted widescreen' transfer which works fine on smaller 4:3 TVs, but which looks awful on larger screen or widescreen TVs. I believe that every DVD today should be made in 'anamorphic widescreen' format so that the image is enhanced for viewing on a larger screen. If it's not then I think that the poor image quality should be clearly marked in some way, as the lack of an anamorphic transfer makes a big difference in quality. In the case of this particular movie the image is very poor due to a terribly grainy transfer that looks as if it came from a VHS tape. The non-anamorphic format makes it even worse and results in what's known as 'gutterboxing' (black bars all around the image) when the movie is played on widescreen TVs. Some TVs allow zooming in to fill the screen in cases like this, but in the case of this film if the image is zoomed to fit the screen the film becomes unwatchable.
So in conclusion, those with standard 4:3 TVs under 30 inches probably won't notice any loss of resolution. But for folks with big screen TVs I advise waiting until this movie gets an updated DVD treatment. Sadly there is no anamorphic transfer of this movie at present. The earlier 'Special Edition' (ASIN: 6304698542) is supposedly also non-anamorphic, so it will be similarly flawed. Hopefully at some point we will get a restored and remastered version of this classic film.
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