Any good movies?

[j.ca...@gmail.com]

It's been raining nonstop and I'm too sick to go exercise, so I was
hoping someone could tell me about a good dance genre film to go and
rent? I really liked The Company which is pretty new but older movies
are fine too. Any other ballet movies out there? I absolutely LOVE the
behind the scenes story of practice and performance. Gives me shivers
from my performing days!

i'm not a big movie nut so I'm sure there's lots of titles out there
i've never heard of

[j.ca...@gmail.com]

oh by the way I heard about a hilarious movie, "Breakin 2 Electric
Boogaloo" but that one is purely for the ridiculous 80s breakdancing!
Still it sounds like quite something.

So that's comedy I guess, I was hoping to find something more serious
like the young dancer making it through ballet school

[Paul-Andre Panon]

Hmm. Perhaps you could try The Turning Point(1977)? I have yet to see it
and it seems to be a bit of a love-it-or-hate-it sort of movie. However,
from the viewer reviews, it might help clear up your sinuses one way or
the other. http://imdb.com/title/tt0076843

P-A

[JeffM]

>I was hoping someone could tell me about a good dance genre film

> j.carsey @ gmail.com

Start here:
http://www.google.com/search?q=The-Red-Shoes+A-Chorus-Line+The-Turning-Point+Billy-Elliot+Flashdance
Modify the search string as you see fit.

Don't forget:

White Christmas
--The reason people say "choreography"
http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=choreography (1)*
when they really mean "terpsichore"
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=terpsichore (2).

All That Jazz

Just for me--mustn't omit sexy Cyd:
Silk Stockings
http://www.google.com/images?q=Silk-Stockings+Cyd-Charisse+silk01.gif&filter=0

* and the reason that dictionaries currently go beyond Definition 1.

[j.ca...@gmail.com]

Thanks for the replies! Also found a nice listing at this site
http://www.dancersdreamland.com/movie_main.htm

Got no problem with sexy either. Wow they just don't make movies like
they used to, do they?

[JeffM]

j.carsey @ gmail.com wrote [without context*]:

>Thanks for the replies! Also found a nice listing at this site
>http://www.dancersdreamland.com/movie_main.htm
>

Good content there (if you take the site as a whole;
any single page will be highly variable because it is so inclusive)
--but that pink-text-on-black-background thing is hard on these aging
eyes.

Paul-Andre already pointed at the Internet Movie DataBase
http://imdb.com
for depth after you have found a title.
.
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::Just for me--mustn't omit sexy Cyd:
::http://www.google.com/images?q=Silk-Stockings+Cyd-Charisse+silk01.gif
::Silk Stockings
:: JeffM
::

>Got no problem with sexy either.
>Wow they just don't make movies like they used to, do they?
>

Not ones with music or dancing at their cores.
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Most folks use a "newsreader" to read the groups.
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See how I went back and added a bit of the previous post to this post?
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You don't have to re-post **everything** from the previous post;
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