The Gang's All Here - Busby Berkeley

The singular Busby Berkeley’s first film in Technicolor, The Gang’s All Here is arguably the greatest—and most insanely ludicrous—of Berkeley’s later efforts. A hallucinatory excursion into spectacular visuals, mad choreography, and great music. Starring the lovely Alice Faye as a sad-eyed showgirl who's being courted by a furloughed soldier who’s already spoken for. Their rocky romance provides the narrative backdrop for Berkeley’s visionary song-and-dance numbers, with most famously the scandalous The Lady in the Tutti Frutti Hat in which Carmen Miranda, leads a corps of banana-wielding dancers.

In John Baldessari's studio, the TV was always on, tuned to channels that played a steady stream of films. Even when he went out the door, the monitor stayed on for his dog Benny. Films - from B-movies to Westerns - became a kind of background noise for Baldessari. The films that caught his attention even got a place in his artworks: Hollywood film stills from the 1940s to 1960s were cropped, scaled, and complemented with Baldessari's colourful forms. Bozar shows a selection of his favourite cinematic gems.