No. 60: Cabaret
This is what life is
December 06, 2011
1972, dir. Bob Fosse. Cabaret’s a movie about Nazis whose chief storyteller is Joel Grey, with songs by Kander and Ebb and a subplot about German Jews in love. Weimar doesn’t get much sexier.
Liel Leibovitz is editor-at-large for Tablet Magazine and a host of its weekly culture podcast Unorthodox and daily Talmud podcast Take One. He is the editor of Zionism: The Tablet Guide.