Evita (1996)
Directed by Alan Parker
The hit musical based on the life of Evita Duarte, an Argentinian actress who eventually became the wife of Argentinian president Juan Perón, and the most beloved and hated woman in Argentina.
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Considering how closely Butler resembles Antonio Banderas in this movie, I can't understand why the producers of this film didn't go for the much more charismatic Banderas, especially since he proved he could sing in the last film adaptation of an Andrew Lloyd Webber play, Evita.
Speaking of Madonna, the "Phantom" filmmakers could have taken some cues from director Alan Parker's rousing screen adaptation of "Evita."
Madonna's lead performance in Evita , the last film made from a Webber show, wasn't necessarily any better, but at least she makes sense from a metanarrative and marketing perspective.
He was absolutely stunning in Alan Parker�s Evita adaptation, done with style, grace and God forbid, a few chances.
To be fair, Alan Parker ("The Commitments," "Evita") reportedly tried to bring the musical to the screen back in the late 1980s, but those plans fell through.
Khondji has been one of the world’s greatest directors of photography for decades, but he’s only garnered a single Oscar nomination in that time (for 1996’s Evita ).
The last major motion picture musical was 1996's Evita , which performed tepidly (with a domestic gross of about $50 million against a budget of $55 million).
As “Evita” proved, the long, history-sprawling epic musical, while as enjoyable as it always was, has fallen into a place lost to memory.
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In recent years, director Alan Parker gave us "Evita" starring Madonna, but it was more of a fashion show than anything else.
It also does not help that he, Richards, and Meyer make the WASPiest Argentines since... well, Jonathan Pryce in Evita; and that they, Harris, and Muldoon look much too old to be the high schoolers their characters are supposed to be at the film's opening.