The Band Wagon (1953)

The well-harmonious and incredibly-ingenious in-gathering of the crowd-pulling and be-all end-all culling "drive-oriented" dream team - the stars , the film crews, and the commodiously and compendiously dedicated producers "the Freed / Edens unit" - has potently combined their hard graft, their all the way sweated toiling and logrolling, their well polished-and-established expertise, and their deep-dyed unified working relationship in spite of being inescapably besieged with a few personal and work-related setbacks - so as to idyllically and melodically put on a show that has incomparably created cinematic spectacular and at the same time has colourably exhibited schematic particulars presented in the gallant standard-length scale and in the scintillant composite musical revues that have featured their sure-handedly collective-and-selective efforts such as Mr Arthur Schwartz / Mr Howard Dietz's old-timey yet unfadingly beamy and dreamy song-pieces; Mr Michael Kidd's feverishly "tender feeling" and "slice of life"- gilded step-designing ( the well-outlined and sublime body movements ); Ms Mary Ann Nyberg's imposingly prismatic and pneumatic ladies' wear styling; the judiciously-and-preciously set up musical arrangements of the all-out standout musical numbers - the pivotal examples: Mr Conrad Salinger's emotively and evocatively drawn up number of Mr Fred Astaire and Ms Cyd Charisse's sweetly-romanticized and neatly-italicized "Dancing in the Dark" set in a well-nigh replicated wide-open courtyard at the Central Park and Mr Skip Martin's shinily and sunnily smoothed-out sanguine number of Mr Fred Astaire / Mr Leroy Daniels' "A Shine on Your Shoes" at the Penny Arcade on 42nd Street - this musical sequence has rolled out the real-life ragtime bootblack's simply cleanhanded and brio-laded dancing talent and the master hoofer's well-grounded high standing and head rush in handling the coin-operated arcade machines and the other fun-hubs in his dashing and flashing dancing dernier cri; and among other grandest and candidest things both in aesthetical and technical aspects that are all under the smooth-running and stunning helm of the white headed, well-rounded Mr Vincente Minnelli ( his hallmark delicatesse and visual flair is sensational as well as inspirational .). This gem beyond measure is in its truest and uniquest form of 111-min time-transporting diversion pursuit in this barely rosy and prosy modern day life. To tell you the truth nothing has underlined more musically, satirically, and magically of its fine drawing power and mind-blowing fun-endower than this inestimable "life-imitating-art-imitating-life-as-it-is" piece of work. Through the years this MGM's precious treasure has proven its durability and capability to entertain several generations of quaint musical film enthusiasts. What a perfect time to jumpstart our day in recollecting and jubilating in the illustrious and meritorious bygone eras! Indeed, what a red-letter day!

@sunnychuang58 10

Step right this way, folks! Do something to perk yourself up and change your attitude - that is feeling kinda fuzzily-faded and hazily-jaded nervous wreck. It's high time to get aboard and to move on an explicitly fleet-footed yet still sure-footed transtemporal odyssey to the bygone Golden Period of Classical Hollywood Motion Pictures so as to once more appreciate and luxuriate in the unsurpassed banner year of all the MGM's musical gems that were / will always be the all out kosher smashers and dashers for all their intents and purposes. As such it's about time to do this "rah,rah,sis boom bah" cheering thing to one of MGM's most sizable and prizable musical gems of salient beauty and resilient quality. And it's nothing else but this Ms Betty Comden / Mr Adolph Green's sensibly drawn up satiric yet mesmeric putting-on-show-with-a-tinge-of-backstage-ongoing-themed romedic musical film classic the 1953 The Band Wagon that was doggedly and spark-pluggedly fancied up by Mr Vincente Minnelli in a sheer kaleidoscopic and stereoscopic perfection and in a candidly larky and sparky cinematic piece. It's dreamily and creamily pleasure-insetting gold mine for all the rad musical flick classic admirers - it's simply a breath of fresh air in a good old-fashioned way. Get ready and be in shipshape grip for the roll calling and time traveling thing so as to non-trivially and jovially sample the good old glorious days the second time round. So let's bring on this time-honored and fine-enamored Mr Arthur Freed / Mr Roger Edens' nicely tended and funded classic material of inch-perfect rapture and stature this 1953 The Band Wagon that has nicely drawn special attention to a panoply of Mr Oliver Smith's auspiciously and judiciously designed musical numbers with his eminently three dimensional and innovational painted backdrops; a handpicked assemblage of honest-to-goodness and finest seasoned headliners with distinctive skillset, esthetic inclination, sterling whip-hand in his / her strong point, indisputably radiant and luxuriant singing and dancing staging and symbolic and odylic force coupled with drive and enthusiasm at full tilt; and on top of the preceding favorable features of this classic stunner with the unsurpassable quality and indispensable gratuity, it can likewise boast about MGM's well mustered-and-mastered behind-the-scene crews of the very best kind with their specific lines of expertise so as to create a compelling and revelling world of illusion and musical fanfare with slickly-fashioned elegance, impassioned radiance, and most well sanctioned ambiance of romantic, ecstatic, and melodramatic tones and in some measure the actual backstage tension or fiasco in the theater world.

@sunnychuang58 9

I imported the BD from the USA. I'm waiting...

@RenanCMaia 4