That's Dancing! Is really undisputed champion of documentary for me. This is the last film that I watched and really enjoyed in my life. This movie, which I free even. Dance with a Stranger - 1985. A stormy relationship, complicated by the strictures of 1950s social class and gender roles, ends in death. Based on the life of Ruth.

Release Date: G 1 hr 44 min Plot Summary Iconic figures such as Liza Minnelli, Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly lead the viewer through this retrospective of classic dancing numbers throughout the films of the 20th century. From classical ballet to modern dance, the compilation features clips and never-before-seen footage from films such as 'The Wizard of Oz,' 'West Side Story,' and 'Singin' In the Rain.' Mikhail Baryshnikov also appears, commenting on the art of ballet and the responsibilities of the dancer. Cast:,,,,, Director: Genres: Production Co: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Keywords:,,,.

There is a sense in which it is impossible to dislike 'That's Dancing!' And another sense in which movies like this - made by splicing together all the 'good parts' - are irritating and sort of unfair to the original films. Given the choice of seeing ' again or spending the same amount of time looking at scenes from 'Singin' ' and maybe 60 other films, I'd rather see the real movie all the way through. But 'That's Dancing!' Is not setting an either-or test for us; what it basically wants to do is entertain us with a lot of good dance scenes from a lot of good, and bad, movies, and that Is such a harmless ambition that I guess we can accept it. Rapidshare Book Acting on this page.

The movie has been put together by Jr. And Jr., and it recycles Haley's formula in ' (1974), the original slice-and-dice anthology from Hollywood's golden ages. There also has been a 'That's Entertainment II' (or 'too,' I seem to recall), and the law of diminishing returns is beginning to apply. Sooner or later, we'll get 'That's All, Folks!' In the first movie, for example, we got Gene Kelly's immortal title dance number from 'Singin' in the Rain'; in the second movie, we got Donald O'Connor's equally immortal 'Make 'em Laugh' sequence, and that leaves Kelly and O'Connor's only somewhat immortal 'Moses Supposes' number for this film. Pretty soon we're going to be getting 'That's What's Left of Entertainment!'

Shares with the earlier movies an irritating compulsion to masquerade as a documentary, which it isn't. The tone is set by Kelly's opening generalizations about the universality of dance, etc., while we see National Geographic outtakes of dancing around the world: Tribes in Africa, hula skirts in Hawaii, polkas and geisha girls and so on. Kelly is later spelled by such other dance analysts as,, and Sammy Davis Jr., all ofwhom can dance with a great deal more ease than they can recite pseudo-profundities. There is, however, a lot of good dancing in this movie, including rare silent footage of Isadora Duncan. We see Busby Berkeley's meticulously choreographed dance geometries, the infinite style of, the brassy joy of, the pizzazz of and Eleanor Powell, a charming duet between Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson and Shirley Temple, and a dazzling display by the Nicholas Brothers, who were the inspiration for the dance team played by the Hines brothers in 'Cotton Club.' The movie is up to date, with from ' and footage from break-dance movies, ',' and Michael Jackson's 'Thriller.'