Xanadu

When viewed from continental America, the sun can't rise out of the Pacific Ocean.

The jacket, paintbrush, and palette held by 'Michael Beck (I)' (qv) when visited by Kira.

The camera crew is reflected in the big mirror during the ballroom dance scene.

While building Xanadu, at the end of the week, Danny pours champagne into Sonny's glass, then goes to pour into his.

When the camera angle switches mid- sentence, Danny is filling Sonny's glass again.

Sonny is left-handed, as we see when he is painting.

In the close-up of him drawing, he holds the mechanical pencil in his right hand.

The sign on the old auditorium doors changes briefly between shots.

When Sonny first visits the painter's workshop, Richie is working on a painting, which is only partly done.

When Richie turns to greet Sonny, the painting is almost compete.

In the final dance sequence in the Xanadu Club, the second muse to appear in "I'm Alive" has wavy hair just above her shoulders.

In the last shot, her hair is straight and almost down to her waist.

When Sonny discovers Kira skating on the floor of the Xanadu building, he calls "You!" from the balcony above.

Kira's repartee is "Me," which she says as her face is set towards the ground.

Immediately after, she looks up at Sonny and can be seen silently mouthing the same line.

When Sonny borrows the moped to follow Kira, the weather is warm and the sky is clear.

A few moments later on the pier, the weather has become misty and the sky overcast.

When Sonny first sees the auditorium that eventually becomes Xanadu, the letters on the roof of the building that spell out auditorium are missing the A and R.

Later when Kira takes him to the auditorium, the T is missing.

In the following scene, when Sonny and Danny arrive at the auditorium, the T is back.

Finally, when Sonny and Kira are slow dancing in front of the auditorium before it transforms into the finished Xanadu exterior, the T is missing again.

Richie's large painting is in front of the stairs as Sonny enters.

When Sonny leaves, the painting is beside the stairs.

Several times in the art studio scenes, Sonny's paint pallet is replaced with few paintbrushes and vice versa.

At the start of "Don't Walk Away" the rose blooms with nothing around it.

In the next shot leaves and stems are right beside it.

At the art studio, when Kira sneaks up on Sonny painting, his paint smock changes from medium blue to light blue and back.

During the rock and roll big band scene, the rock drummer's movements are out-of-sync with the drum sounds.

When Sonny talks to Kira in her dimension, Kira alternately stands on and off the glowing yellow lines.

When Sonny enters Airflo records, he goes over to hang his coat up.

He then begins to push an easel across the room.

It wasn't beside the coat rack in the previous shot.

During "Whenever You're Away From Me," the tap dancer's movements are out of sync with the tapping sounds.

The keyboard player in the "Dancin'" segment.

In the beginning, Sonny sketches a large pastel drawing, rips it up into pieces, and throws it out the window.

The floating pieces are all blank, with no drawing on them.

The position of the roller skates hanging around Sonny's shoulders changes when he first enters the auditorium.

When Danny and Sonny come to the auditorium, three female singers take the stage in the 1940's sequence.

All 3 mouth the words, but but 'Olivia Newton-John' (qv) does all of the singing.

One dark-haired singer occasionally forgets to move her lips.

At the end of "I'm Alive" when Kira bumps into Sonny, the branches behind Sonny instantly go from still, to blowing in the wind.

- PLOTIf Danny was on foot and Sonny was on a moped, how did Danny catch up to Sonny at the pier? How did Danny know where he was going? When Sonny arrives at work, he chats with the security guards as they open the gates for him, but their mouths are closed.

In "The Fall" musical sequence, Sonny roller skates alone along a beach-side boardwalk.

In the opening shot, heat waves shimmer up from the ground, and passersby are dressed in bathing suits and other warm-weather clothing.

In subsequent shots the sky is grey and the people in the background are wearing heavy winter coats.

When Sonny falls into the water, is pulled out, and has coffee with Danny in the diner, he isn't carrying or wearing roller skates.

When he goes from the diner to hitch a ride on a van, he's wearing roller skates.

At the beginning of the movie, the muses in the painting on the mural are detailed and fully rendered.

Later, when Sonny is about to jump into the mural, the muses in the painting are sketchy and lack detail.

In "The Fall", When Danny is skating in Venice Beach, his red fish shirt is buttoned.

In the next shot, his shirt is unbuttoned.

Near the end of "Dancin'", when the two 80's dancers meet the two 40's dancers, a white scrim is behind them.

Several pairs of white sneakers and blue jean-clad legs are visible behind it, at the bottom.

In the opening shots of the "All Over the World" sequence, outside the entrance to the clothing boutique, the mannequin furthest from the camera shouts out counts to keep the dancers together.

The only audio heard at that point is the prerecorded song, but his lips are very clearly moving.

When Danny and Sonny meet, everyone around them is wearing warm weather clothing, like bikinis and short shorts.

Danny and Sonny are both wearing long-sleeved coats, and cold-weather pants.

Danny is wearing a wool scarf and a hat.

After Sonny and Danny meet outside the record store, they go to Danny's house--but as they enter house, Danny is now wearing a suit instead of casual attire in previous scene.

Danny shows Sonny an old 78 rpm multi-disc album he recorded during WWII, but when he plays the record, it is obviously a 33 1/3 disc playing on modern turntable that wouldn't play 78 rpm discs in first place.

During the "Dancin'" scene, as the three singers start walking down the stairs, one of the Zoot Suit dancers is on his knees playing with his hat directly in front of them.

When the camera pulls back for the next shot he is to the right with the sailor between him and the singers.

When Sonny quits his job, the shadow of the boom mic is bobbing in the top left of the screen.

I have to admit that this movie bombed at the box office but not because it stunk. It bombed because Hollywood struggled with the promotion.

Colors, colors, colors... the first of a series of B-post 70's films, this Australian bombshell will fly in your penis!

I know. It's cheesy in places.

From my Opinion, Its one of the most uplifting and positive films of the 80's just below grease which was a few years earlier. It deals with hopes and dreams, An amazing collage of modern and older music which has been mixed so well its just amazing.

Xanadu is a triumph for up and coming Scottish filmmaking.What a refreshing change to see a Scottish film that doesn't involve gangsters, crime or drugs.

No, Xanadu isn't a great movie, but it's one I used to watch a lot as a kid for some reason, so the nostalgia runs (or skates) too deep for me to hate it. I love the music, I find Olivia Newton-John to be stunningly beautiful, and it's fun to see Gene Kelly perform one final time.

Records. Roller skates.

Loosely based on an old Columbia movie "Down to Earth" about a Greek Muse visiting Earth to inspire a band-leader (and save him from an untimely death). It has it all: awkward story, clumsy dialog, and bad acting.

My first childhood star crush was Olivia Newton-John.Pretty lady with a voice like an angel.