Madam Arcati, with the benefit of the annual BFI membership my sister bought him as a birthday prezzie, booked us to see a special members' showing of my all-time number one favourite film Cabaret last night!
Mere words cannot describe the influence this divinely decadent movie had upon me when I first saw it in the late 70s or early 80s - the magnificent Kander & Ebb songs, the genre-breaking atmosphere of sleaze, Bob Fosse's choreography, the chilling social upheaval that forms the backdrop to a weird doomed romance, the divine Michael York, and of course the Oscar-winning combination of Liza Minnelli and Joel Grey!
Suffice to say I was overjoyed to see it again on the big screen...
Cabaret on Wikipedia
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