Cabaret film is considered a pinnacle of the genre film adaptation. Director Bob Fosse constructed Cabaret script based on the novel Goodbye to Berlin of Christopher Isherwood. Cabaret earned for Fosse 8 Oscars including Best Director, but lost out on the best movies for 'Godfather'.
The screenplay, which never seems to talk down to an audience while at the same time making its candid points with tasteful emphasis, returns the story to a variety of settings.
Let's just say it: the best thing going in director Bob Fosse's tour de force is Joel Grey. As the Master of Ceremonies at the infamous Berlin Kit-Kat club, Grey steals every scene he's in and makes us hope for more.
Everybody in Cabaret is very fine, and meticulously chosen for type, down to the last weary transvestite and to the least of the bland, blond open-faced Nazis in the background.
Common Sense Media
January 04, 2010
Influential '70s musical features sex and mature themes.
Superbly choreographed by Fosse, the cabaret numbers evoke the Berlin of 1931 - city of gaiety and perversion, of champagne and Nazi propaganda - so vividly that only an idiot could fail to perceive that something is rotten in the state of Weimar.
