TOMMY/Austin Film Society Goin' For Baroque

The first film in this Essential Cinema Series was one of my all time favorites from back in the day.  The music from The Who so easily comes back and you find yourself singing even when the sound goes off and Tina Turner is doing her fabulous Acid Queen number.  And all the old hippies in the audience laugh and were probably singing along as well.  And who can forget how absolutely gorgeous Roger Daltrey was?  Oliver Reed, Ann Margaret are so natural in their far out freaky roles and Elton John is adorable and slams it home with Pinball Wizard.   Jack Nicholson as the doc with his accented flair,  singing his lines and seducing Ann Margaret is cute!!!   But the best of all is the music, the lyrics, bringing me right back to 1975, a very different world for all of us.  I wouldn't have missed it for the world.  Thank-you AFS for the great reminder.