because I can't express how much I appreciate this film, I'm going to instead do my tier list of the major musical pieces 🥰
1 Engagement Party
2 Pier (after this it's harder to differentiate which I like better)
3 Epilogue
4 Audition
4 Planetarium
4 City of Stars
5 A Lovely Night
5 Herman's Habit
5 Someone in the Crowd
6 Madeline
7 Start A Fire
Literally every other bit of music in the whole movie
Babylon Soundtrack
Whiplash…
revisiting this without having watched it again bc I realised it deserves more than I gave it - I love(d) ouat in hollywood. classic and excellent introduction study (see Thomas Flight video essay on (meta)modernism, Top Gun Maverick and EEAAO (neither of which I've watched)
fairly well constructed film. some parts lag a bit, but I appreciate the commitment to portrayal aptly and completely of these outcasts and the revival that was and is necessary in order to communicate Christ's sacrifice for the sins of man, such that any can find redemption, forgiveness and renewal (among other things obv) in him, and him alone. favourite moment was wherein a pastor mimicked an action Jesus took as the Servant King :) a thought provoking and moving…
watched this like three or four times in my childhood, and i loved it everytime :)
