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Cabaret (film).
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Critical Essay by Roger Greenspun
"Cabaret" is not so much a movie musical as it is a movie with a lot of music in it…. Fosse's approach has been not to open up but rather ...
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Critical Essay by Pauline Kael
Cabaret is a great movie musical, made, miraculously, without compromises. It's miraculous because the material is hard and unsentimental, and until now there has...
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Critical Essay by Stanley Kauffmann
[Fosse] has handled Cabaret like a smart Broadway musical director: always bright, always intent—not on authenticity but on keeping one step ahead of the aud...
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Critical Essay by Colin L. Westerbeck, Jr.
Cabaret is ultimately pretty weak schnapps. It takes the Berlin of the 1930's—the Berlin of George Grosz cartoons and Christopher Isherwood sto...
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Critical Essay by David Brudnoy
Cabaret is superb drama enriched by music, not a "musical" padded with the usual tacked-on, hoked-up plot. While its story centers on an American showbiz-...
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Critical Essay by Joe Blades
What one remembers from [Cabaret] are the visual elements:
(1) the touching moment in which Fritz hides his frayed cuffs from Natalia;
(2) Joel Grey's garish makeup...
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When something is created it is a given that it will be picked apart, dismantled, will evolve into something even greater. It has become the norm in film-making to play by these rules of deformation...
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Critical Essay by Roger Greenspun
The Destruction of the Film Genre
