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      • Many consider Swing Time to be the best of the movies that Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers made together, making it a strong candidate for Astaire's best film ever. It has four greatly-admired dance scenes, and a music score by Jerome Kern that is considered to be one of the greatest ever used in a musical.
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  3. www.criterion.com › current › postsWhy Swing Time Is the Greatest of All Dance Films

    Jun 13, 2019 · But their dancing in Swing Time, the sublime 1936 musical that marked their sixth pairing, is a cut above. “I think of [it] as the best dance film ever made, because of the way that dance is integrated into the film,” says critic Brian Seibert in this video, a clip from a supplement included on our new edition of the movie .

  4. www.rottentomatoes.com › m › 1020729-swing_timeSwing Time - Rotten Tomatoes

    Dexterous and risk-taking Lucky Garnett (Fred Astaire) pursues dancing and gambling with equal verve. Engaged to the pretty Margaret Watson (Betty Furness), Lucky gets pre-wedding nerves, which ...

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  6. www.rogerebert.com › great-movie-swing-time-1936Swing Time movie review & film summary (1936) - Roger Ebert

    Feb 15, 1998 · The best of the Astaire-Rogers films is their fifth, “Swing Time” (1936), directed by George Stevens at a time when he was a king at RKO Radio Pictures (his other credits in that period included “Alice Adams” and “Gunga Din”). The plot, with its sly drolleries, is based like “Top Hat” on mistaken identities, but it’s wittier ...

  7. www.criterion.com › current › postsSwing Time | Current | The Criterion Collection

    Mar 12, 1990 · The Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers film, Swing Time, is a classic example of how music and dance can be used to tell a story, express emotions, richly explore human relationships, subvert logic, and send us singing and skipping into the street—or, in the video age, around the living room.

  8. www.eyeforfilm.co.uk › reviewsSwing Time (1936) Movie Review from Eye for Film

    Swing Time is rightly regarded by many fans and critics as Fred and Ginger’s greatest movie together. It is a movie to laugh and cry with. It was even referenced in Barack Obama’s inauguration speech.

  9. thedigitalbits.com › item › swing-time-criterion-brdSwing Time (Blu-ray Review) - The Digital Bits

    Swing Time, whose working title was Never Gonna Dance, offers comical obstacles and misunderstandings, dramatic reversals, witty songs, and spectacular dances. Though the plot is shaky, the stars, the music, and the dances make it irresistible. In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked Swing Time among the 100 Greatest Movies of All Time.

  10. www.metacritic.com › movie › swing-timeSwing Time - Metacritic

    Arguably the best movie of the Astaire-Rogers series, Swing Time is the most consistently entertaining, most imaginatively plotted of their films. [25 Jun 1987, p.B7] Read More