Bird R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 40 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 1, 2010
- Originally Released: 1988
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Forest Whitaker, Diane Venora, Michael Zelniker & Keith David | |
Performer: | Sam Robards, Bill Cobbs, John Witherspoon, Tony Todd & Diane Verona | |
Directed by | Clint Eastwood | |
Edited by | Joel Cox | |
Screenwriting by | Joel Oliansky | |
Composition by | Lennie Niehaus | |
Cinematography by | Jack N. Green | |
Subject: | Charlie Parker | |
Produced by | Clint Eastwood | |
Executive Production by | David Valdes |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1988 -
Best Sound: Not Applicable
Cannes 1988 -
Best Actor: Forest Whitaker
Entertainment Reviews:
At last American cinema has done black music proud. Unforgettable.
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Time Out
Even though, thematically, the movie won't come clear, Eastwood has succeeded so thoroughly in communicating his love of his subject, and there's such vitality in the performances, that we walk out elated, juiced on the actors and the music.
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Washington Post
"Bird'' is a movie that demands your full attention, refusing to yield all its meanings if you sit back and let it wash over you.
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Christian Science Monitor
Rating: 3/5 --
Bird is less moving as a character study than it is as a tribute and as a labor of love. The portrait it offers, though hazy at times, is one Charlie Parker's admirers will recognize.
New York Times
Rating: 2/5 --
Overlong, and reeking of prestige.
F5 (Wichita, KS)
In this movie and its hot, fast bursts of bop, Charlie Parker gets a fitting elegy.
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Los Angeles Times
4 stars out of 5 -- A labour of love for director Clint Eastwood, this ambitious biopic of Charlie Parker digs a little deeper than most mainstream musical biopics...
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Product Description:
Charlie "Bird" Parker had been a hero of Clint Eastwood's since childhood, and Eastwood, having been disappointed in such jazz biopics as YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN, really wanted to make a true jazz fan's movie about the music. He cast Forest Whitaker as Parker, the legendary alto sax player, and Diane Venora as Chan, Parker's wife. The film shows how Parker, a genius who changed the face of modern music, was hampered and eventually destroyed by his appetite for women, food, and drugs. The two leads do a great job giving a recognizable human face to the characters' complex relationship. With wit and warmth, BIRD tells the story in direct and honest terms, avoiding all sentimentality. Eastwood's love of Parker's music comes across in the tremendous care that he and composer Lennie Niehaus took with reconstructing it, using Parker's original solos. Eastwood and cinematographer Jack N. Green also patterned the dark, moody look of the film after old photos of musicians who used to appear in jazz magazines. Music lovers will be thrilled with the result, and movie lovers will find plenty to engage them in this moving tale of a great man battling his demons.