The 10 Best Movie Musicals Ever Made

From: The blot
Michael Musto is a contributing journalist for TheBlot Magazine.

 Looks like 2014 could be a golden year for movie musicals with highly anticipated versions of “Jersey Boys,” “Annie,” “Into the Woods” and “The Last 5 Years” all headed to the big screen, plus “Begin Again,” from the man who did “Once.”

This provides a perfect opportunity for me to dig back into the vaults and name what I consider to be the 10 best movie musicals of all time — until now. (By the way, I’m not including animated films. Just stuff with actual humans.)

“Cabaret”

1972

Liza Minnelli perfectly encapsulated divine decadence as the clueless but strangely sympathetic singer Sally Bowles, who’s conveniently losing herself in hedonistic Weimar madness as the Nazis rise to power. Joel Grey provides an unforgettably creepy and seductive The Emcee, and the whole thing was so expertly packaged by Bob Fosse that he beat Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Godfather” for Best Director! Wilkommen to the most adult musical ever filmed.