The musical genre is the essence of so-called seventh art. It is since the advent of sound, whose first film, The Jazz Singer (1927) was a musical. But even before that, with silent movies, the rooms needed a pianist who stroked the images with music to help the viewer to enter history. The musical genre, the direct heir of the old vaudeville sessions has remained for decades as a synonym of cinema as an escape. Thus wars and economic crises have served as catalysts for gender huge because now the public needed to forget their terrible and gray everyday life to dive into the magic of cinema. The musical has made great plays to film. Singing in the Rain, West Side Story or Calle 54 prevail, among many others, as masterpieces. But there have been many worthy rarities mentioned as some of the more bizarre or strange films ever made. 
LOQUILANDIA (Hellzapoppin, 1941) by HC Potter crazy and surreal More than any film of the Marx Brothers, this genius deserves to be on the podium of the most deranged films of all time. So ahead of its time that forty years after Airplane copied some of his gags. The beginning is one of the wildest musical numbers in film history, with demons raging madhouse infidels and dialogues. The songs from the rest of the movie clip, but the best comes last, with a man carrying a tree, the monster of Frankenstein, men without legs, legs without men, number of western and most zoophilic ballets I've seen on screen, poodles, sliding down the crotch of acrobats. If you're still sane at the end, this is your list.
A CABIN IN THE SKY (Cabin in the Sky, 1943) of Vincente Minelli The first work of genius from the Metro, Vincente Minelli, minority was a movie directed at black audiences. Presents fairly simple stereotypes of African Americans, typical of the time, and is based on Christian mythology quite flat. Otherwise it is a gem to recover, with delirious scenes Lena Horne and a delicious exercise in tempting (Above African American women, double stereotype). But the best is the appearance of two jazz greats as Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong, who plays the devil.
A BLONDE IN THE TOP (The Girl Can not Help It, 1956) Frank Tashlin starring Tom Ewell, the husband tempted to The Seven Year Itch and that mixture and busty Marilyn mitómana Sleepy Hollow Monroe and Jayne Mansfield was, and commanded by the director of most of the films of Jerry Lewis, if anything this comedy is known for having the presence of some of the biggest stars of rock'n'roll of the fifties. Among them, Gene Vincent, The Platters, Fats Domino, Eddie Cochran and a beaming Queen of rock'n'roll, Little Richard, with some of his best songs.
THE GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT (Les Demoiselles de Rochefort, 1967) Jacques Demy Demy French was the great innovator of the genre with his 1964 masterpiece, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, where all dialogue was sung, the first to the last line. With his second foray into the music he wanted to pay homage to American music, with scenes Warhol and music by Michel Legrand running as a thread to follow this opera ultra-pop. The cast Catherine Deneuve repeated with his ill-fated sister Dorléac Françoise, who died in an accident after the premiere of the film. Among the distinguished guests find the teacher Gene Kelly and George Chakiris, the unforgettable Bernardo in West Side Story.
amooor SOME DAME (1968) of José María Forqué Dame Say a Little Help is amooor would spend a little English. Forqué Neither is Richard Lester and the Braves are The Beatles. But it is a pure and scurfy reading of the brilliant and surreal film of the Fab Four, with many points in common, such as aesthetics or comic references Fu-Manchu. The result is a hodgepodge Yeye, Tip y Coll with such distinguished guests and a great final scene of animation in which Mike Kennedy and his cronies are superheroes battling ogres while singing one of his best songs, Bring A Little Loving.
THE LEGEND OF THE TOWN WITH NO NAME (Paint Your Wagon, 1969) Joshua Logan This film was a flop at the box office in most of the world. Curiously in Spain had a devastating follow-up, coming to recover in theaters for years. Displays of megalomania reached by gender in the sixties, was about to sink his production company, one of the biggest fiascos in the history of cinema. But putting the numbers, the musical western film is a deliciously amoral, where Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood singing, with their own voices! A jewel that makes its major flaws its greatest virtues. By the way that the director had previously tested with another title deranged musical, Camelot (1967)
THE PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE (Phantom Of The Paradise, 1974) Brian De Palma A year before the better known (and below) The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Phantom of the Paradise is the ultimate movie work of glam rock. With a baby story both of The Phantom of the Opera and Faust as the shows of Alice Cooper in the 70's, this gem is converted into the hands of a young Brian De Palma in a delirious pop piece full of unforgettable moments. The villain is inspired by the tyrannical producer Phil Spector, played by the composer of its great soundtrack, and left the diminutive Paul Williams, singer and songwriter for the Carpenters and the Muppets, among others (if that's not sinister, " what is?).
Lenny (1974) by Bob Fosse Lenny is a musical. Well, many people might argue that. For indeed it is a musical without songs. But is director Bob Fosse, choreographer and former director of jewelry as Cabaret and All That Jazz, and in fact structure the film like a piece of the genre, with the monologues of Lenny Bruce exercise of musical interludes. Thus, this biopic of terrorist humor becomes a movie musical more than most. A sinister tale can look at the camera and show light and shadow of a black and white crushing its greatest virtues and more hypocrisy. And has one of the best performances of Dustin Hoffman monstrous.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK (1977) Martin Scorsese Scorsese , passionate film buff, paid homage to MGM musicals with this work. In fact its star, Liza Minelli (then director of the Italian-American girlfriend), is the daughter of one of the legends of the musical, Judy Garland. But he gave his touch. The result is a film as great as strange, mixing equal parts musical history of the 40's, with the decline of big bands and the emergence of star vocalists and be bop, with the bitterness of their own storm director's film Raging Bull. Liza is out, and his New Yok, New York (the original) is something that could never match Sinatra. And Robert De Niro methodical draw a character gets nasty but charming, and although his saxophone sounds in the film, they came to learn the piano, like a good son of the actor's studio.
SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND (1978) of Michaerl Schultz With the excuse of making a film with songs by The Beatles joined The Bee Gees and the superstar of the seventies Peter Frampton in one of the musical projects most bizarre of all time. In his cast are actors like Steve Martin and Donald Pleasance with bands like Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, or Earth, Wind & Fire. Some actions, such as the Beatles collaborator Billy Preston, are good. Other better not talk. So far no one has dared to edit on DVD.
THE MAGICIAN (The Wiz, 1979) Sidney Lumet Somebody explain to me how a prestige director Sidney Lumet (Twelve Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon, Network ...) finished directing version Motown, and so black, the Wizard of Oz. The result is a rarity kitsch in the service of Diana Ross too advanced in years to make it believable Dorothy, a Michael Jackson doing more acrobat scarecrow than usual and Richard Pryor as the Wizard of Oz.
XANADU (1980) by Robert Greenwald Considered one of the top 10 worst movies of all time by the founders of the Razzie Awards. It also has the honor of receiving the first prize Razzie for worst director. Among its virtues, be coupled to Olivia Newton-John, who tested the bitterness of failure after the boom of Grease, and Gene Kelly, in his unfortunate last appearance before the cameras. The music put the group ELO and the dancers are on skates, does anyone get any better?
FATHER NO MORE THAN TWO (1982) by Mariano Ozores Someone came up with the brilliant idea of \u200b\u200bmaking a film of Pajares and Esteso for everyone, and for that they joined Tito and Piranha Summer Blue, the annoying child star and the dog pulgoso Spark of movies Parcheesi. For if the mixture is not explosive enough, appear in a number of Frankenstein and Igor dresses, and other thugs with the great theme Dude, really cool. To safeguard the morals of infants breast lumps are not in sight.
FORBIDDEN ZONE (1982) by Richard Elfman This rarity has the vicissitudes of a mondo underground which is reached by a digestive tract, inhabited by a frog in human form, a sadistic nymphomaniac, a couple brothers emerged from the Three Stooges and a lecherous dwarf king. The rest are deranged songs by Cab Calloway and many bad baba underground. Is the debut film by Richard Elfman, brother of the famous composer Tim Burton films, Danny Elfman, who appears in the film as a demon with his group then, Oingo Boingo. But the main attraction is the dwarf Herve Villechaize, Christopher Lee co-Scaramanga in Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun and twice as Felipe González Javier Gurruchaga who made a famous television interview eighties.
THE HAPPINESS OF KATAKURI (Katakuri-ke no Kofuku, 2001) Takashi Miike Millennium The musical, directed by more radical, Japanese Miike, author of extreme genius and Dead Or Alive and Gozu. A mix full of surprises from Sound of Music and Night of the Living Dead where sumo wrestlers are not lacking predators, Hollywood-style musical numbers, animation, gore and even a karaoke song.
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