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Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Film Video of the Moment: Outrageously Beautiful Busby Berkeley Dreams

Posted by Mark on Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:30 AM



Nightclub stages go on and on forever (so too: crane shots, lines of chorus girls, legs of chorus girls). "The Lady in the Tutti-Frutti Hat" (is there Carmen Miranda? O yea verily there is so much Carmen Miranda, hooray), in Busby Berkeley's first color film, The Gang's All Here, which screens this weekend as part of the annual Dance on Camera Festival — featuring new and vintage performance films, documentaries, musicals, talks and so on, from the world over — now ongoing at Lincoln Center.

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I just got a look at the calendar yesterday and this looks good- "Moses and Aaron" in the Cinematic Opera series, but that price is killing me ($35 for non-members).

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