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For Your Consideration: Phantom of the Paradise is the only pop music movie you could ever want
What do you get when you cross classic literature, the Muppets musicmeister, and a hot young director in the 1970s? Glamrock classic Phantom of the Paradise
When Better Man swings into theaters this weekend — see what I did there? “Swings,” with the movie making Robbie Williams into a CGI monkey? — it’s a welcome reminder of the power of a good movie about the music industry. Whether it’s a biopic of a real life musician, a quasi-fictionalized-but-we-all-know-who-it’s-really-about epic (Hi, Grace of My Heart!) or an entirely made-up story that nonetheless feels true, there’s nothing like the buzz you get from the combination of catchy music and eye-boggling visuals when it’s done on a grand scale — which is why, dear friends, it’s time to offer up for your consideration: Phantom of the Paradise.
This is For Your Consideration, in which we try to come to terms with the inescapable fact that, honestly, there’s too much out there to have time to watch, read, or hear everything — by making
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