Cabaret (DVD) Reviews

Ladies and Gentlemen, wilkommen... bienvenue... welcome to the Kit Kat Klub, a world of decadence, delight and depravity- a world where your innermost fantasies and darkest thoughts can be played out in the world of cabaret. If you thought all musicals were light and fluffy stuff, think again! Cabaret the film is the result of a long ...  Read the complete review

Classic musical, always worth rewatching. Set in the louche Berlin of the late 30's, Sally Bowles, a free spirited cabaret artiste encounters the reserved Brian who has just moved into her building. The unlikely pair and opposites on every level but a friendship forms. Romantic ups and downs ensue and the atmosphere becomes darker, the ...  Read the complete review

My copy of the DVD came free as part of the presentation of the Times Film Festival. The film released in 1972 by the ABC Pictures Corp has been deemed fit for viewing by the Censors Office for persons aged 15 years or over. A hit musical film of decadent, pre - war Berlin based on the Kander - Ebb musical from John van Druten’s play “I am ...  Read the complete review

Liza Minnelli has rarely had a better movie opportunity to showcase her undoubted talents than Cabaret, the 1972 satirical dissection of the rise of Nazism in the early 1930's. The daughter of the tortured Julie Garland received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress in her first starring role in The Sterile Cuckoo in 1969, and she also ...  Read the complete review

Wilkomen to the world of Cabaret. A world of divine decadence portrayed with skill; mixing laughter, romance, sexuality, song and a dash of political rumblings - the perfect cocktail that you'll enjoy drinking in all night. Cabaret was made in 1972, a year when the Godfather could have run away with all of the awards. Instead this ...  Read the complete review

Liza Minnelli as Sally Bowles, Joel Grey as the fey MC of the Kit Kat Klub and Michael York as Bryan, the stereotypical English gent are the three main protagonists in a simply amazing film, which is on the surface a musical, but dig deeper and you find a particularly barbed commentary on the fascist goings on in the Germany of the early ...  Read the complete review

Saying Cabaret is a good film, is like saying the Taj Mahal is a nice building, or that Ayres Rock is pretty for a lump of rock. It's misses the point somewhat. This isn't a musical as such, at least, that's not the impression you are left with when you have travelled such a magnificently torturous journey through the story. ...  Read the complete review

Cabaret (the movie) was made in 1972 and won 8 Oscars including those for Best Actress (Liza Minelli), Best Supporting Actor (Joel Gray) and best director (Bob Fosse). I haven't seen the film for a number of years, though I remember it being memorable for the cabaret scenes alone. I came across the DVD for sale on the ever-popular ...  Read the complete review