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Tag Archives: Fred Astaire
QuickPix (7): “Great MUSICALS For You to Savor, Vol. 1”
> Welcome to KPK’s “QuickPix”, a new feature here in KPKworld! > Enjoy brief capsule reviews of very worthy films- not a stinker in the lot. Culled from my monthly compendiums, every title here is a 4 to 5 star … Continue reading
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Tagged art, Celtic culture, cinema, classics, criticism, Cuba Feliz, cuban music, Easter Parade, entertainment, films, Fred Astaire, ideas, Irish music, Irving Berlin, Judy Garland, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Live Over Ireland, Los Lobos, Miguel Del Morales, movies, music biographies, music documentaries, musicals, opinion, QuickPix, reviews, Revolution Rock, The Chieftains, The Clash, traditional music, Van Morrison
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FLIX PIX (1088): “TOP HAT is Top Notch”
TOP HAT (directed by Mark Sandrich, 1935) ***** (out of 5) . > Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers create screen magic in a classic musical song-and-dance comedy that is every bit as sparkling as I remembered it. . The story hardly … Continue reading
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Tagged arts, Cheek to Cheek, cinema, classics, comedies, criticism, dancing, Edward Everett Horton, entertainment, films, Flix Pix, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, ideas, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Mark Sandrich, movies, musicals, opinion, Puttin’ on the Ritz, reviews, Top Hat
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FLIX PIX (900): “Fred Astaire Dances on the Ceiling in ROYAL WEDDING”
ROYAL WEDDING (directed by Stanley Donen, 1951) *** (out of 5) . > Fred Astaire and Jane Powell are a pair of sibling song-and-dance performers. . They are touring England in 1947, a time when London was vibrating with excitement about … Continue reading
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Tagged art, cinema, criticism, films, Fred Astaire, ideas, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, movies, musicals, opinion, reviews, Royal Wedding
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KPK on the CINEMA (103): The Films of September 2020
. SEPTEMBER 2020. Amid the global pandemic horror, the cinematic bounty overfloweth! (All ratings are on a 5 star scale. Note that a classic only becomes a classic after a decade or more.) (Titles in purple have been expanded for Flix … Continue reading
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Tagged 21 Days, 47 Ronin, A Dry White Season, aboriginals, action, adventure, Alps, Alvarez Kelly, Ann Sheridan, Anya Taylor-Joy, apartheid, Australian cinema, Authur Laurents, Autumn de Wilde, Bill Nighy, British politics, Carey Mulligan, Cary Grant, Civil War, colonialism, comedies, coming of age, divorce, documentaries, Donald Sutherland, drama, Ed Oxenbould, Edward Dmytryk, Edward G. Robinson, Elke Sommer, Emma., empowerment, endurance, equality, F.W. Murnau, families, farce, feminism, Fred Astaire, Fred Schepisi, Greek cinema, Harakiri, Henry James, High Heels, historical drama, history, Howard Hawks, humor, I Was a Male War Bride, Jake Gyllenhaal, James Woods, Jane Austen, Japanese cinema, John Cleese, John Entwistle, Johnny Flynn, Julie Delpy, Kathleen Turner, Keith Moon, Kenji Mizoguchi, Kirsten Dunst, Laurence Olivier, Maiden, Man With the Gun, Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, Monty Python, music, musicals, mysteries, native populations, Nobel Prize, parody, Paul Dano, Paul Newman, Pedro Almodovar, performance, period pieces, Pete Townsend, Peter Cook, Peter Lawford, politics, racism, Richard Widmark, Robert J. Flaherty, Robert Mitchum, rock and roll, Roger Daltrey, romance, Royal Wedding, Sam Shepard, satire, silent films, Sofia Coppola, South Africa, south seas, Spanish cinema, Spencer Tracy, sports, survival, taboos, Tabu A Tale of the South Seas, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, The Kids Are Alright, The Last Hurrah, The Nightcomers, The Prince and the Showgirl, The Prize, The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer, The Virgin Suicides, The Who, thrillers, Tracy Edwards, tragedy, tribal rituals, Turn of the Screw, violence, Vivien Leigh, Volker Schlöndorff, Voyager, westerns, Whitbread Round the World Race, wildlife, William Holden, World War II, yacht racing, Yorgos Lanthimos
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KPK on the CINEMA (102): The Films of August 2020
. AUGUST 2020: A sombre time, but a great crop of movies! So many 4-and-a half and five-star films! Oh, the bounty, amid all the horror! Just pinch me. (All ratings are on a 5 star scale. Note that a classic … Continue reading
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