Just Try to Ignore the Fact That They're Nazis

I watched Cabaret recently, which was okay. I was expecting a bit more. The thing I remember most is the song "Tomorrow Belongs to Me". In the movie, it is sung in a picnic setting, started off by a member of the Hitler Youth and joined in by most of the crowd. At first you just see the kid's face, and he's the picture-perfect young Aryan man. Then you see the brown shirt and the armband and the uniform and get the full picture. But the song is great. It starts out going on about nature and the trees and the rivers and "the blossom embraces the bee". Then it goes into "Arise, arise!" and "Fatherland, fatherland, send us the sign" type stuff. But it sounds fantastic. So if you can ignore the fact that all this is a prelude to the rise of Hitler and everything that came with it*, it's really good.

*Note: You can't really ignore it.

I've gone through a lot of movies recently, probably too many to do a post on each one. So I'll run through some of them real quick.

Tom Jones: boring except for maybe the last twenty minutes.
The Greatest Show on Earth: Not bad. Charlton Heston is good. Shows a lot of the circus acts and what it takes to put the show on.
Out of Africa: Really good. Depressing, but good. Meryl Streep and Robert Redford are good. Streep nominated for Best Actress.
Oliver!: A little dull for me. Picked up towards the end. But the song about buying roses was a great one.
Three Days of the Condor: A good thriller. Redford and Dunaway go well together. I may have mentioned before that I was very pleasantly surprised by Dunaway when I watched Bonnie and Clyde and Chinatown. She's good in this one too. And let me just say this about Redford: he's always good. Even if the movie is crap, Redford is good.
Capote: Just finished it tonight. I don't care too much about the story, but if you ever see old footage of Truman Capote and then watch Philip Seymour Hoffman, you'll be mightily impressed (same thing with Denzel Washington in Malcolm X. He was robbed of an Oscar that year by Al Pacino in the utterly wretched Scent of a Woman. Can't stand that movie).

Watching True Grit right now, then it's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. And then the fun begins, with four episodes of MST3K on the way.

To finish, I'll check to see if my good friend Geneva Marney is still paying attention. Hey Neva, if you've got a movie recommendation or two, send them my way.