Arthouse musical

Arthouse musical (or experimental musical) is a combination of an art film and a film musical.

Notable arthouse musicals

20th Century

• The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy, 1964)^[1]
• The Young Girls of Rochefort (Jacques Demy, 1967)^[2]
• Cabaret (Bob Fosse, 1972)^[3]
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Jim Sharman, 1975)^[4]
• New York, New York (Martin Scorsese, 1977)^[5]
• All That Jazz (Bob Fosse, 1979)^[6]
• Bubble Bath (György Kovásznai, 1979)^[7][8]
• Pennies from Heaven (Herbert Ross, 1981)^[9][10]
• Forbidden Zone (Richard Elfman, 1982)^[11][12]
• Golden Eighties (Chantal Ackerman, 1986)^[13][14]
• Under the Cherry Moon (Prince, 1986)^[15]
• Strictly Ballroom (Baz Luhrmann, 1992)^[16]
• Everyone Says I Love You (Woody Allen, 1996)^[16]
• Little Voice (Mark Herman, 1998)^[17]

21st Century

• Billy Elliot (Stephen Daldry, 2000)^[18]
• Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier, 2000)^[19][20]
• Moulin Rouge (Baz Luhrmann, 2001)^[21]
• 8 Femmes (François Ozon, 2002)^[22]
• Once (John Carney, 2007)^[23][24]
• The Lure (Agnieszka Smoczyńska, 2015)^[25]
• Cyrano (Joe Wright, 2021)^[26]
• Annette (Leos Carax, 2022)^[27][28][29]

Notable arthouse musical directors

• Leos Carax^[30]
• Jacques Demy^[31]
• Bob Fosse^[3][6]
• Baz Luhrmann^[16][21]

See also

• Postmodernist film
  • Modernist film
• Arthouse action film
• Arthouse animation
• Art horror
• Arthouse science fiction film
• New Hollywood

References

1. 10 Great Movies That Are Perfect Introductions To Arthouse Cinema – Part 2 – Taste of Cinema
2. Art house: The Young Girls of Rochefort is a real song and dance|South China Morning Post
3. Why was “Cabaret” called “a musical for people who don't care for musicals”? - The Take
4. Writer's Room Survey: Rocky Horror Picture Show - The Frida Cinema
5. The Hollywood musical - Google Books (Preface to Second Edition)
6. The Cinema Book - Google Books (pg.64)
7. Habfürdő in the 2020-2021 Season of Classic Films Catalogue|Gyorgy Kovasznai
8. COAGULOPATH
9. Arthouse Movie Listings March 6-12, 2013 | Rep Showtimes - SF Weekly
10. Coen Bros. Plan Movie Musical, 'Romance and Cigarettes,' with Turturro | Playbill
11. Forbidden Zone: Ultimate Edition (Blu-ray Review - The Digital Bits
12. Forbidden Zone - The Grindhouse Cinema Database
13. Arthouse movie listings for January 21-27 - SF Weekly
14. Adaptation and the New Art Film - Goggle Books (pg.175)
15. I Wonder U: How Prince Went beyond Race and Back - Google (ch.4 "Cherry Bomb")
16. The Sound of Musicals - Google Books (pgs.55-56)
17. The Migration of Musical Film: From Ethnic Margins to American Mainstream - Google Books (pg.185)
18. The Movie Musical - Desirée J. Garcia - Google Books (ch."Introduction")
19. Dancer in the Dark - Rolling Stone
20. No Country for Women and Children: Pastoral America and Meaningful Despair in Palindromes and Dancer in the Dark Charles Burnetts, King’s University College - Scope: An Online Journal of Film and Television Studies Issue 26 February 2014
21. The Sound of Music - Google Books (pg.98)
22. Arthouse films to watch alone on your laptop this Christmas | Dazed
23. Dublin-set musical abounds in natural charm|Retuers
24. When in doubt, just busk it|Movies|The Guardian
25. Film Review: The Lure — Surreal Mermaid Horror Musical - The Arts Fuse
26. Which arthouse films stood out at the 2021 autumn festivals?|Features|Screen Daily
27. Fall in Love with a Puppet Baby in the Arthouse Musical Annette - Hyperallergic
28. REVIEW ROUNDUP: What Do Critics Think of ANNETTE?|Broadway World
29. Annette: Adam Driver Shines in Leo Carax’s Arthouse Musical, But Can’t Warm an Emotionally Detached Film —— Original Cin
30. A few of our favourite films: seven forthcoming screen musicals rated|Musicals|The Guardian
31. 'La La Land', such a song and dance - The Hindu