Nine

What can Rob Marshall’s Nine add to the movie-musical genre after Michael Jackson’s This Is It, the international box-office hit that redefined the form? Director Kenny Ortega’s experience at directing musicals helped craft footage of Jackson rehearsing his upcoming tour before his death into a multi-leveled examination of showbiz activity, artistic creation and the personal emotional investment revealed in performance. This Is It brilliantly shows the formal deconstruction and simultaneous visceral and emotional elation of the post-Broadway pop music revolution. Read more