BFI's 100 Film Musicals

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"From the coming of sound to the 1960s, the musical was central to Hollywood production. Exhibiting – often in spectacular fashion – the remarkable resources of the Hollywood studios, musicals came to epitomise the very idea of 'light entertainment'. Films like Top Hat and 42nd Street, Meet Me in St. Louis and On the Town, Singin' in the Rain and Oklahoma!, West Side Story and The Sound of Music were hugely popular, yet were commonly regarded by cultural commentators as trivial and escapist. It was the 1970s before serious study of the Hollywood musical began to change critical attitudes and foster an interest in musical films produced in other cultures. Hollywood musicals have become less common, but the genre persists and both academic interest in and fond nostalgia for the musical shows no signs of abating.

100 Film Musicals provides a stimulating overview of the genre's development, its major themes and the critical debates it has provoked. While centred on the dominant Hollywood tradition, 100 Film Musicals includes films from countries that often tried to emulate the Hollywood style, like Britain and Germany, as well as from very different cultures like India, Egypt and Japan. Jim Hillier and Douglas Pye also discuss post-1960s films from many different sources which adapt and reflect on the conventions of the genre, including recent examples such as Moulin Rouge! and High School Musical, demonstrating that the genre is still very much alive."

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    Zouzou

    1934, in 1 top list Check
  2. 99 -

    Ziegfeld Follies

    1945, in 1 top list Check
  3. 98 -

    You and Me

    1938, in 3 top lists Check
  4. 97 -

    Yankee Doodle Dandy

    1942, in 12 top lists Check
  5. 96 -

    The Wizard of Oz

    1939, in 37 top lists Check
  6. 95 -

    West Side Story

    1961, in 22 top lists Check
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    Volga - Volga

    1938, in 2 top lists Check
  8. 93 -

    Viktor und Viktoria

    1933 — a.k.a. Victor and Victoria, in 2 top lists Check
  9. 92 -

    True Stories

    1986, in 3 top lists Check
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    Top Hat

    1935, in 13 top lists Check
  11. 90 -

    Swing Time

    1936, in 13 top lists Check
  12. 89 -

    Summer Holiday

    1948, in 1 top list Check
  13. 88 -

    Stormy Weather

    1943, in 4 top lists Check
  14. 87 -

    A Star Is Born

    1954, in 13 top lists Check
  15. 86 -

    The Sound of Music

    1965, in 25 top lists Check
  16. 85 -

    Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

    1937, in 25 top lists Check
  17. 84 -

    Singin' in the Rain

    1952, in 37 top lists Check
  18. 83 -

    Sing As We Go!

    1934, in 3 top lists Check
  19. 82 -

    Silk Stockings

    1957, in 4 top lists Check
  20. 81 -

    Shree 420

    1955 — a.k.a. Mr. 420, in 4 top lists Check
  21. 80 -

    Show Boat

    1936, in 8 top lists Check
  22. 79 -

    Sholay

    1975 — a.k.a. Embers, in 12 top lists Check
  23. 78 -

    Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

    1954, in 8 top lists Check
  24. 77 -

    Saturday Night Fever

    1977, in 13 top lists Check
  25. 76 -

    The Rocky Horror Picture Show

    1975, in 13 top lists Check
  26. 75 -

    Pyaasa

    1957, in 10 top lists Check
  27. 74 -

    The Pirate

    1948, in 3 top lists Check
  28. 73 -

    Pas sur la bouche

    2003 — a.k.a. Not on the Lips, in 2 top lists Check
  29. 72 -

    Les parapluies de Cherbourg

    1964 — a.k.a. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, in 18 top lists Check
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    Pakeezah

    1972 — a.k.a. Pure Heart, in 6 top lists Check
  31. 70 -

    The Pajama Game

    1957, in 3 top lists Check
  32. 69 -

    Original Cast Album: Company

    1970, in 3 top lists Check
  33. 68 -

    Opera Jawa

    2006 — a.k.a. Requiem from Java, in 4 top lists Check
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    On the Town

    1949, in 10 top lists Check
  35. 66 -

    One Hundred Men and a Girl

    1937, in 3 top lists Check
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    One Hour with You

    1932, in 6 top lists Check
  37. 64 -

    One from the Heart

    1981, in 2 top lists Check
  38. 63 -

    Oliver!

    1968, in 7 top lists Check
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    Oklahoma!

    1955, in 5 top lists Check
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    New York, New York

    1977, in 5 top lists Check
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    Naughty Marietta

    1935, in 3 top lists Check
  42. 59 -

    Nashville

    1975, in 21 top lists Check
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    The Music Man

    1962, in 6 top lists Check
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    Moulin Rouge!

    2001, in 17 top lists Check
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    Le million

    1931 — a.k.a. Le Million, in 8 top lists Check
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    The Merry Widow

    1934, in 4 top lists Check
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    Meet Me in St. Louis

    1944, in 15 top lists Check
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    Mary Poppins

    1964, in 15 top lists Check
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    The Love Parade

    1929, in 5 top lists Check
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    Love Me Tonight

    1932, in 11 top lists Check
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