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Kathy A - Jul 02, 2009 3:07:15 pm PDT #2829 of 30000

We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Another board is having their "question of the day" being all about movies, specifically "What is your favorite movie about dance, whether it's a musical or just a movie about dancing in general?"

I mentioned a bunch of classics, but ended up settling on All That Jazz, especially pointing out the "Take Off with Us" number that steals the show, ending with Sandahl Bergman taking off her bra and being the center of a pseudo-orgy of writhing dancers. I also loved the finale of "Bye Bye Life" with Ben Vereen and Roy Scheider.

megan walker - Jul 02, 2009 3:27:13 pm PDT #2830 of 30000

"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

"What is your favorite movie about dance, whether it's a musical or just a movie about dancing in general?"

Probably Strictly Ballroom. I also really like Les Demoiselles de Rochefort, which is Jacques Demy's dancing companion to the singing Les Parapluies de Cherbourg. It stars Catherine Deneuve and her sister Françoise Dorléac, as well as George Chakiris and Gene Kelly.

Juliebird - Jul 02, 2009 3:32:00 pm PDT #2831 of 30000

I am the fly who dreams of the spider

Strictly Ballroom for me as well. One of the things that I especially love is that when showing a super awesome king of the world dancer/dance, they goof it right the frig up, rather than a dance that inadvertantly sucks but was supposed to rock.

Amy - Jul 02, 2009 3:32:00 pm PDT #2832 of 30000

Because books.

I love All That Jazz, Kathy. One of my all-time favorites of any kind. Roy Scheider is so fantastic in that role.

Dana - Jul 02, 2009 3:39:16 pm PDT #2833 of 30000

I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

New steps! New steps! New steps!

Ailleann - Jul 02, 2009 3:44:55 pm PDT #2834 of 30000

vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda

I don't care about the Pan-Pacific Grand Prix!

Juliebird - Jul 02, 2009 3:50:51 pm PDT #2835 of 30000

I am the fly who dreams of the spider

"I want Ken Railings to walk in here right now, and say 'Pam Short's broken both her legs, and I wanna dance with *you*!'"

(Ken) "Pam Short's broken both her legs, and I wanna dance with you." "That was unexpected."

-t - Jul 02, 2009 3:54:21 pm PDT #2836 of 30000

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I would have to go with a Fred Astaire, but which one would take research.

Juliebird - Jul 02, 2009 3:56:36 pm PDT #2837 of 30000

I am the fly who dreams of the spider

I would have to go with a Fred Astaire

Ooh, I forgot, there used to be dance movies that didn't consistently suck.

(I refuse to watch movies from the 70's and 80's for the most part, so I'm sure that there is a more than a small gap in my knowledge base)

Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 02, 2009 5:07:21 pm PDT #2838 of 30000

"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Does the movie have to be strictly about dance, or just have it play a major role? Because if the latter I'd be torn between Grease and 1941.

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