Choreographer-turned-director Bob Fosse turns the camera on himself in this nervy, sometimes unnerving 1979 feature, a nakedly autobiographical piece that veers from gritty drama to razzle-dazzle musical, allegory to satire. It’s an indication of his bravura, and possibly his self-absorption, that Fosse (who also cowrote the script) literally opens alter ego Joe Gideon’s heart in […]
Dreamgirls
Backstage at an amateur talent show at the Detroit Theater in 1962, Cadillac salesman Curtis Taylor, Jr. (Jamie Foxx) meets a girl group known as “The Dreamettes” with lead singer Effie White (Jennifer Hudson), and back-up singers Deena Jones (Beyoncé Knowles), and Lorrell Robinson (Anika Noni Rose). Curtis presents himself as the Dreamettes’ new manager […]
Walk The Line
In 1968, an audience of inmates at Folsom State Prison cheer for Johnny Cash’s (Joaquin Phoenix) band as he waits backstage near a table saw, reminding him of his early life. In 1944, Johnny (Ridge Canipe), then known as J.R., grows up the son of a share cropper on a cotton farm in Dyess, Arkansas, […]
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