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Classic Film Review: As Glimpsed in “Joker: folie à deux” — a Minnelli, Astaire and Charisse musical, “The Band Wagon” (1953)
Nothing in a movie is there by accident. So it’s worth pondering why the 1953 screen musical “The Band Wagon” is the movie that patients/inmates at the Arkham Hospital for the Criminally Insane watch in “Joker: Folie à Deux.” The … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Joaquin commits heart and soul, but “Joker: Folie à Deux” flails
“Joker: Folie à Deux” is a Great American Songbook jukebox musical grafted onto the Grand Guignol of Todd Phillips and Joaquin Phoenix‘s vision of the comic book character. It doesn’t work, doesn’t play and doesn’t coalesce into the Big Message … Continue reading
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