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BFI Southbank has announced a season of dance on film, from Fred Astaire to Wim Wenders’ documentary Pina 3D. Running in July and August as part of Big Dance 2014, the season will include screenings, talks and events.
BFI Southbank has announced a season of dance on film, from Fred Astaire to Wim Wenders’ documentary Pina 3D. Running in July and August as part of Big Dance 2014, the season will include screenings, talks and events.
From wicked wisecracks to kaleidoscopic celebrations of showgirls, Busby Berkeley’s early1930s musicals are among 1930s Hollywood’s most daring films. Two of his best-known films, 42nd Street and The Gold Diggers of 1933, will be screened as part of the BFI’s Hollywood Babylon season, which celebrates “Early Talkies before the Censor”.
Esther Williams, who has died aged 91, swam through some of Hollywood’s most elaborate musical spectacles in the 1940s and 1950s. A champion swimmer turned movie star, she had a magnificent, athletic figure and a smile that kept its natural brightness even as she emerged from Technicolor pools, fountains and firework displays.
There’s a definite dance focus to the third Fashion in Film Festival, at venues across London from December 1–12. See our gallery for glimpses of showgirls, music hall numbers and dances of the seven veils.
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