February 2012
4 posts
Dancing in the Street: Blues Brothers
When I was eleven and twelve, I was obsessed with the Blues Brothers. I spent my birthday money when I turned twelve on a tape of the Blues Brothers soundtrack and a video of the Princess Bride. What can I tell you, I had incredibly good taste. My friend Rebecca and I used to put the Blues Brothers tape on and dance on the top bunk of her bunk beds wearing sunglasses. Although not in the dark with...
Dancing in the Street: Fame
This might not be the first dancing in the street scene, but it’s the first one that made an impression on me and made me really, really want to go to the kind of school where someone would pull up in a car outside and start playing some music, and we would all run out into the street and block traffic with our dancing. Alas, this never happened.
Watching it again now, I am mainly...
Dancing in the Street: Enchanted
Unless you have daughters of a certain age, chances are you haven’t seen Enchanted. I don’t have daughters of a certain age, but as there’s a part of me that remains forever twelve (same part that’s going to see The Muppets for the second time tomorrow) I have seen Enchanted, a few times, and this song is one of the highlights. Amy Adams plays a cartoon princess who is by...
Dancing in the Street: Ferris Bueller's Day Off
And so begins my tour of great dancing in the street movie moments. We’re kicking off with Ferris because some of you may have been unlucky enough to see the unspeakably awful Superbowl advert featuring an adult Ferris Bueller taking a day off work. A more cynical, dead-behind-the-eyes, triumph of cash over soul stunt you have never witnessed, and I implore you not to look it up, even out of...