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ESSAY: A Note on Bob Dylan and the Cinema
ESSAY: French Film Musicals
ESSAY: If The Man Can't Dance / He Gets No Second Chance
ESSAY: Carmelo Bene
ESSAY: Dance Fever

Almost Famous
    Annette  NEW (13 Jun 2025)
Aria

Artists and Models
Asoka
Aviva
Le Bal
The Band Wagon
Billy Elliot
Black and White (2002)
Black Cat White Cat
The Blues
Blues Brothers 2000

Brigadoon
Buena Vista Social Club
El Cantante
Center Stage
Les Choristes
Coal Miner's Daughter
The Colour of Pomegranates
The Commitments
Connie and Carla
Cotton Mary
Dancer in the Dark
De-Lovely
Detroit Rock City
Devdas
The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky
Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
Duets
Eden
8 Femmes
8 Mile
Elvis
End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones
Evaporated Music
Everyone Says I Love You
Exiles
Facing the Music
The Fat and the Lean
Fear of a Black Hat
The Fighting Temptations
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
Flamenco
    Fogo-fátuo  NEW (31 Oct 2025)
Footloose
Fosse/Verdon  TV series
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Georgia
Girl 6
Glitter
Golden Eighties
Graffiti Bridge
Grease
Great Balls of Fire!
Groove
The Guru
Guys and Dolls
The Happiness of the Katakuris
The Hole
Honey
The In-Laws (2003)
Isn't It Romantic
Jane Birkin: Arabesque
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
Kansas City
Kurt and Courtney
Latcho Drom
Leningrad Cowboys Go America
Light of Day
The Little Mermaid
Little Voice
Lost Horizon (1973)
Love's Debris
Madonna: Truth or Dare
Meet Me in St Louis
Melodrama / Random / Melbourne!
A Mighty Wind
Moulin Rouge
Mozart in Love
My Darling in Stirling
My Fair Lady
Nashville
Nico Icon
    Nico, 1988  NEW (13 Jun 2025)
Nijinsky
9 Songs
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
On the Town
Orchestra Rehearsal
   Oz – A Rock’n’Roll Road Movie  NEW (8 Aug 2025)
Passion (1999)
The Perfection
The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
The Pirate (1948)
The Producers (2005)
Pure Country
Purple Rain
Ray
The Red Shoes
Ricki and the Flash
    Rock'n'Roll Mom    NEW (6 Mar 2026)
Rock School
Rock Star
Rolling Thunder Revue
Romeo + Juliet 1996
Saathiya
The Sapphires
Sarafina!
Satin Rouge
Save the Last Dance
Secrets
Shall We Dance? (1996)
Sid and Nancy
The Singing Detective
Sister Act
Slaves to the Underground
Songcatcher
Standing in the Shadows of Motown
Strictly Ballroom
Suburbia (Spheeris)
Swing
Tango
The Tango Lesson
Tár
That's Entertainment! III
The Thing Called Love
Thread of Voice
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
Times Square
   Together (Malick)   NEW (20 Feb 2026)
Tomorrow We Move
Too Late Blues
Tougher Than Leather
La Tropical
True Stories
The Trumpet of the Swan
Underground Inc
Velvet Goldmine
Vengo
La Vie nouvelle
Vox Lux
Walk the Line
What's Love Got to Do With It?
White Nights (1985)
Yentl


Film Critic: Adrian Martin
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