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Open air cinema at Waterlow Park - and you can choose the film!
06 July 2006



Free summer screenings where you get to choose the film

Ham&High readers are being asked to help choose the film which will see free outdoor cinema coming to Waterlow Park next month.

The event, which could become a regular feature at the historic Highgate park, is being organised as part of the UK-wide Shloer Sparkling Summer Screenings programme, and will take place on Saturday, August 19.

The five feelgood ilms on the shortlist are Grease, Dirty Dancing, Footloose, Flashdance and Moulin Rouge.

To vote for the movie you want, simply go to shloer.com, select your nearest screening and choose your favourite flick from the shortlist - then make sure it wins by getting all your friends to do the same!

The Shloer Sparkling Summer Screenings are giving you the chance to see your favourite dance flicks on the big screen at their cheesy best. Who can forget the first time they swooned over Danny Zuko or Jonny Castle, all snake hips and sexy quiffs? Did you dream of being one of the very sparkling leading ladies and fight over dancing the part of Baby?

Grease and Dirty Dancing are current odds-on favourites but if Kevin Bacon in his Footloose and fancy-free days, Jennifer Beals getting busy with a welding torch in Flashdance or the glamorous technicolour of Moulin Rouge whets your appetite, make sure you visit shloer.com to click on the flick you want.

Drive-in for perfect summer nights with Renault's Megane Summer Movies Festival
17 July 2006

A sleek, elegant convertible perfect for summer motoring combined with watching a classic movie for free sounds too good to be true but Renault's Mgane Coup-Cabriolet is making it a reality with the Mgane Summer Movies Festival.

Renault is celebrating summer in conjunction with Channel 4, with a Festival reviving an iconic favourite entertainment past-time of days gone by, the drive-in movie, by showing a selection of ten classic movies such as Pulp Fiction, Moulin Rouge and American Beauty, at four spectacular venues across the UK. What better way to spend a summer evening than watching the big screen from the comfort of your own car, listening to the sound directly on your radio!

The Festival will travel to Birmingham (Weston Park) on 22nd and 23rd July, then Manchester (Arley Hall) on 29th and 30th July, followed by Brighton (Brighton Racecourse) on 5th and 6th August, finishing in Edinburgh (Hopetoun House) on the 12th and 13th August.

Entry to the event is completely free courtesy of Renault. To obtain tickets, all you need to do is log on to channel4.com/meganemovies and fill in a simple online form. One entry per person per car registration is available and there will be a selection of Mediterranean food and drink to match the hot summer night theme to buy on the night.

Not only that, in a special VIP draw the Wednesday before the weekend's event, ten lucky pairs of people who have registered online will be chosen win a 'golden ticket' to that weekend's film of their choosing!

VIP winners and their guest will be 'upgraded' to the front row to watch the movie in superior comfort and luxurious style in a Mgane Coup-Cabriolet. They'll also be treated to food and drink vouchers, a DVD of that evening's film as well as a goodie bag packed with gifts from Renault and Mgane Coup-Cabriolet.

Each event starts at 7pm leaving plenty of time to enjoy the delicious luxury food stalls complete with hot BBQ before the film starts at 9pm.

All the information about the Renault Mgane Summer Movies Festival, including details of each movie to help you choose which film you'd like to see, is available online now at www.channel4.com/meganemovies.

Each event is expected to sell out fast so register quick to get your free tickets for this great Summer festival courtesy of Renault and its Mgane Coup-Cabriolet to avoid disappointment!

easier.com

Pulled this snippet from regarding Panic at the Disco...

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Panic! at the Disco is the rare example of a band that gathers remnants from rock 'n' roll's past to create something reasonably fresh and highly entertaining.

Image is a large part of the Panic! at the Disco story, as seen in intricate narrative videos for "Sins" and "But It's Better If You Do." At the Egyptian Room, Urie, Ross, drummer Spencer Smith and bass player Jon Walker performed in ruffled shirts, vests and suspenders.

Baz Luhrmann's "Moulin Rouge" film surely influenced the stage set, which featured a smiling, mustachioed moon behind a twinkling, three-dimensional windmill. The production grew more distinctive with successive cameos by dancers from the Lucent Dossier Vaudeville Circus.

Read the entire article at IndyStar

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I've been meaning to ask everyone's thoughts on this song/vid (cuz I love it), but I kept expecting someone to mention it in the "music that will be played in hell" thread

Voters had time of their lives with Dirty Dancing

THE best dance film of all time is Dirty Dancing but a totally different kind of dirty dancing is the worst ... movie flop Showgirls.

Patrick Swayze's hit, a favourite with girls' nights in, beat off classics such as West Side Story and Grease to be voted best ever for its dancefloor moves. But Showgirls, the critically-panned story of exotic dancers in Las Vegas, easily won the title of worst dance movie in the poll by drinks firm Shloer.
Showgirls has been voted the worst film of the decade in other award ceremonies.

But there was no room for any movie starring, perhaps, the greatest dancers in cinema history from Gene Kelly to Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers to Cyd Charisse.

Grease was the second best dance film of all time but Grease Two was among the 10 worst. Dirty Dancing sequel, Havana Nights, is also to be found in the truly awful category.
Despite their Oscar winning success, both Cabaret and Chicago were named among the 10 worst dance movies along with howlers such as Village People's Can't Stop the Music.

Cheesy dialogue, strange plots and unexciting dance moves left many viewers cold, said the survey. Cabaret may have suffered because it starred Liza Minnelli, whose public persona leaves some people cold.

Moulin Rouge and Coyote Ugly were among modern offerings to appear in the best list.

EveningTimes

Tinseltown's musical dares
August 25, 2006

Razzamatazz used to rule the silver screen. From the 1930s to the 1960s, movie musicals bustled with Busby Berkeley chorus lines, sprightly Irving Berlin tunes, fancy footwork by Gene Kelly and singing Austrians in lederhosen. Unfortunately, shifts in public taste, the decline of the big Hollywood studios and expensive flops like 1973's Lost Horizon dealt a harsh blow to the genre.

Such extravaganzas may be harder to come by nowadays. Yet the musical survives in many forms, from film adaptations of Broadway hits and fully-fledged fantasias created for the screen to performance-heavy showcases for singers-turned-thespians. This weekend sees the arrival of Idlewild starring OutKast. Though essentially a period drama with songs, it's also a hip-hop update of the musicals Hollywood used to make for African-American audiences, movies like 1943's Stormy Weather with Lena Horne and Cab Calloway. Every year, there's a handful of films attempting to revitalize the tropes and traditions of the movie musical -- here's what worked and why.

MOULIN ROUGE (2001)

Director Baz Luhrmann pulled out all the stops in his attempt to remodel the musical for a post-MTV audience. Though the endeavour smacks of stylistic overkill and could've done without the Like a Virgin cabaret number, it's a triumph of chutzpah. In constructing his meta-musical, Luhrmann not only borrows from the great Hollywood pictures but parallel traditions in India (the musical still reigns supreme in Bollywood) and France. Not for nothing are the great sixties' musicals of Jacques Demy -- The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and The Young Girls of Rochefort -- still so cherished.

Click here if you want to see the other movies listed.

Someone posted this link over at EM.net...it's a MR review some dude did in his blog at The Film Experience.

He also listed Ewan as #3 (with a little write-up) in his top 100 Actors of the "Aughts".

Just thought it was interesting...

Courtesan and penniless sitar player make a little history
Monday, September 04, 2006



Whenever the American Film Institute releases one of its all-time-best-movie lists, there's usually a storm of controversy over what made the list and what was left off.

Yesterday at the Hollywood Bowl, the AFI named its Top 25 list of the top musicals in movie history.

The list was chosen from a short list 250 films by an AFI jury comprised of more than 500 filmmakers, critics, musicians, composers and film historians.

Interestingly, just two films were selected from the current millennium: Chicago, which was ranked 12th, and Moulin Rouge! which placed 25th.

Spanning a century of film music and counting down from 25 to Number 1 throughout the evening, Director John Mauceri and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra performed excerpts from each of the winning musicals, many of them accompanied by favorite movie scenes shown on the bowl's big video screens.

While television broadcasts have announced the previous nine installments of AFI's 100 Years series, following the success of last year's AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores, this is now the second time an AFI countdown was revealed before a live audience.

To see the entire list, go here.


#25 out of 250...pretty damned Spectacular, Spectacular!!!