Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Singing Detective, The (2003)- Dir. Keith Gordon
Feat. Robert Downey Jnr., Robin Wright, Jeremy Northam… - A not unthoughtful remake of Dennis Potter's iconic 1980s TV Series, in which a psoriasis–afflicted crime writer hallucinates mystery plots and…
Chicago (2002)
- Dir. Rob Marshall
Feat. Renee Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere… - A screen adaptation of Bob Fosse’s 1970s smash hit stage musical that measures up to the legendary director–choreographer’s exacting…
Elvira's Haunted Hills (2002)- Dir. Sam Irvin
Feat. Cassandra Peterson, Richard O'Brien - "Mistress of the Dark" Elvira returns – paying homage to the Corman–Poe horrors with a camped–up musical set in 1850s…
Swing (2002)
- Dir. Tony Gatlif
- The latest excursion into the music–rich culture of Europe's 'gypsy' population from dir. Gatlif (GADJO DILO), this time set around its…
8 Women (8 Femmes) (2001)- Dir. Francois Ozon
Feat. Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Emmanuelle Beart… - In the classic whodunnit mould, this whimsical French "thriller" starts with a man’s dead body in a snowbound Alpine manse in the 1950s, and eight…
American Astronaut, The (2001)- Dir. Cory McAbee
Feat. Cory McAbee - Wobbling unusually between satire, male angst and experimental derring–do, this slice of outer orbit cinema is set in a grungy future existence…
By Jeeves (2001)- Dir. Alan Ayckbourne
Feat. John Scherer, Martin Jarvis - Apart from the American accents, this is an well–nigh flawless performance of Alan Ayckbourne and Andrew Lloyd Webber's stage musical based on…
Crying... Silicon Tears (Klama) (2001)- Dir. Thanassis Papathanassiou
- One of the biggest hits of recent Greek cinema, this is a lavish parody of 1960s Greek movie melodramas, mixing musical, comedy and suspense into a…
Happiness of the Katakuris (2001)- Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Kenji Sawada, Keiko Matsuzaka, Kiyoshiro Imawano… - A delirious confection from Japanese bad boy dir., Takashi Miike, this “zombie musical” is his most benevolent yet purely entertaining…
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)- Dir. John Cameron Mitchell
Feat. John Cameron Mitchell - Robbed of his rightful place in rock history by a former protégé, transsexual rocker Hedwig is resigned to playing on the lowest rung of the tour…
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