| | Funny Girl DVD Barbra Streisand CDS
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| Category | Musical DVDs, Music Video Movies, Comedies Videos, Music (General), Romance, Recommended, Musical, Biography, Essential Cinema, G-Rated, Comedians/Comediennes, Singers, AFI Top 100 Movie Quotes, AFI Top 100 Passions, AFI Top 100 Movie Songs, Vaudeville | | Starring | Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Frank Faylen, Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Kay Medford, Gerald Mohr, Mae Questel | | Director | William Wyler | | Art Director | Robert Luthardt | | Choreographer | Herbert Ross | | Composer | Jule Styne, Robert Merrill | | Costume Designer | Irene Sharaff | | Director of Photography | Harry Stradling | | Editor | Maury Winetrobe, William Sands | | Music Director | Walter Scharf | | Producer | Ray Stark | | Production Designer | Gene Callahan | | Screenwriter | Isobel Lennart | | Set Designer | William Kiernan |
One of the most popular movie musicals ever made, "Funny Girl" follows the early career of stage comedienne Fanny Brice, a role that earned Barbra Streisand the 1968 Oscar for Best Actress. As the film opens, only her mother believes Fanny can make it in show business. When she gets her first break at Keeney's Music Hall, her hilarious debut as a roller-skating chorus girl gets her hired as a comedienne. A year later Fanny is working for Florenz Ziegfeld in his famous Follies and brings the house down with an outrageous and unplanned number. Fanny becomes a star, falls in love and marries Nick Arnstein (Omar Sharif), many memorable songs include "Don't Rain On My Para In FUNNY GIRL, the highly fictionalized musical biopic, Barbara Streisand makes her film debut in a reprisal of her Broadway role as Ziegfeld star Fanny Brice. Brice, a poor Jewish girl from New York's Lower East Side, rose to fame and won audience's hearts everywhere with her comic antics and powerful singing. Unfortunately, she had far less success in her personal life, and the film focuses on her doomed romance with her first husband, gambler Nicky Arnstein. Barbra Streisand made her film debut with "Funny Girl."
Color by Technicolor.
Herbert Ross directed the musical numbers. Funny Girl Reviews: "...As enthralling as the day it was released in 1968. It is a superb example of Hollywood craftsmanship in which all elements have been blended to perfection with inspired artistry..."
-- Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times "...Quirky, charming and very funny, Babs screams talent..."
-- Jamie Russell, Total Film "...As an exercise in unintentional self-revelation, it's mesmerizing, with Streisand hammering home the comedy..."
-- Mark Harris, Entertainment Weekly Funny Girl | List Price | $14.94 (You save $6.59) | | Studio | Sony Pictures Home Entertainment | | Orig Year | 1968 | | DVD Encoding | Region 1 | | All Time Sales Rank |  2387  | | CD Universe Part number | 2095320 | | Catalog number | 3089 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Oct 23, 2001 | | Rating | G (MPAA) | | Running Time | 155 Minutes | | Additional Info | Widescreen | | Movie Details | Color; Letter Boxed; Widescreen |
Funny Girl Movie Review Average Rating: (4 out of 5 stars)   Babs at her best
No wonder the world loves Barbra. This was my first introduction to her when I was still a little girl and I have adored her ever since. This musical is big, brassy, so very fun and terribly sad. Memorable songs that you just keep humming all day.
Submitted by Lesley (Sydney Australia)
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 Strange introduction to this movie
I thought something was wrong with my DVD when I played it for the first time. For the introductory scene with just music, all you have is a black screen. No pictures, video footage, nothing. But once the movie gets started, it's fine.
Submitted by kennheg (New Orleans, LA, USA)
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It's bright pink!
The sound is great, the color is beautiful and letterboxing means you can see more than 2 partial people in the frame.
The extra's are all Barbra which disappointed me and is the reason it gets a 4 and not a 5.
(The bright pink color will make it stand out among your other dvd's.)
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Funny Girl DVD Region 1
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Letterbox -
1.85
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1.85
Audio:
Dolby Digital 2.0 - French
Dolby Digital 5.0 - English
Additional Release Material:
Trailers
Clips/Highlights - Song Highlighs
Featurette:
1. "Barbara in Movieland"
2. "This is Streisand"
Interactive Features:
Scene Selection
Interactive Menus
Text/Photo Galleries:
Filmographies
Funny Girl Video Barbra Streisand - The Concert: Live at the MGM Grand, Chicago, Funny Lady, Gypsy, Hello, Dolly!, My Fair Lady, New York, New York, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, Owl and the Pussycat, Star Is Born Purchase Funny Girl Movie To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Funny Girl CD (1968) Remastered
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Includes liner notes by Jack Brodsky.
Digitally remastered by Stephen Marcussen.
The film adaptation of the Broadway musical Funny Girl arrived in theaters four years after the show had opened, again starring Barbra Streisand, but much had changed in the interim, and that's reflected in the soundtrack album. While the stage show had been dominated by Streisand, there had still been room for character songs performed by other people, and the cast album contained 15 different numbers, all written by Jule Styne and Bob Merrill. For the film, eight of those songs were dropped, replaced by three new Styne-Merrill numbers and two period tunes, one of them the torch song "My Man," which was associated with Ziegfeld Follies star Fanny Brice, of whom the film was nominally a biography. There were still a few moments for secondary characters to burst into song, notably the comic "If a Girl Isn't Pretty" and a verse of "You Are Woman, I Am Man" for co-star Omar Sharif (who proved to have an adequate conversational tenor). But the movie version of Funny Girl was even more of a showcase for Streisand than the stage production had been. She responded with a more mannered performance than the one she had given on the cast album, broader and full of spoken interjections. In part, that was necessary -- when you're singing "Don't Rain on My Parade" from a tugboat in New York harbor, you'd better oversing just to keep up with the production values. But the third time around with it (including the hit single rendition), she loaded "People" with vocal effects that bordered on self-parody. With a full movie orchestra, this version of the score is generally bigger and glossier, and Streisand holds her own and then some. But the result is that this drastically revised rendering of the score is less successful than the previous one. ~ William Ruhlmann
Remastered
| | Way We Were DVD (1973) Widescreen
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Sydney Pollack directs Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand in this sensitive and moving tale of the romance of two individuals whose political ideologies are exact opposites. Streisand won an Academy Award nomination for her performance as Katie Morosky, a Jewish student radical who falls in love with Hubbell Gardner (Redford), a conservative privileged writer. The two interact from the beginning of their college courtship through the Hollywood-blacklisting era of the 1950s.
Closed Captioned; Bio/Filmographies; Soundtrack English; English Subtitles; Director's Comments; Dolby Digital 5.1 Re; Behind The Scenes
| | Funny Lady DVD (1975) Widescreen
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Barbra Streisand returns as Fanny Brice in this sequel to William Wyler's Oscar-winning FUNNY GIRL. FUNNY LADY picks up the saga of entertainer-comedienne Brice after her separation from playboy millionaire Nick Arnstein (Omar Sharif). Newly single, she teams up brash Broadway producer, songwriter, and entrepreneur Billy Rose (James Caan), a showman whose lack of polish is made up in his boundless enthusiasm. Before long, Rose's professional relationship with Fanny turns into a touching and turbulent personal one. Wyler's extravagant production is highlighted by lavish musical numbers, elegant costumes and a dynamic cast, which is lead by Barbra Streisand's signature style and poise.
Closed Captioned; Standard Screen; Soundtrack English; Soundtrack French; English Subtitles
| | What's Up Doc? DVD (1972) Widescreen; Dubbed; Subtitled
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Trouble seems to follow know-it-all Judy Maxwell (Barbra Streisand) wherever she goes. This time it takes the form of Howard Bannister (Ryan O'Neal), a musicologist attending a convention where he's competing for a grant that will allow him to study the musical properties of certain igneous rocks. Judy pursues Howard despite his protests, and his overbearing fiancée, Eunice Burns (Madeline Kahn), begins to question his motives. To make matters more confusing, there are four identical plaid overnight cases circulating through the Bristol Hotel: one contains diamonds and jewelry, another holds top-secret government files, a third is filled with Judy's clothes, and the fourth, Howard's rocks. As the hotel detective tries to steal the case of jewelry, an agent hunts the man who holds the secret papers, while the last two suitcases naturally find their way into the wrong hands in this caper-of-errors. After a sidesplitting chase through the streets of San Francisco, the entire mess gets sorted out in the courtroom of a tense judge who just happens to know Judy all too well. Madeline Kahn's film debut, this madcap adventure is directed by Peter Bogdanovich (PAPER MOON, MASK).
Closed Captioned; Soundtrack English; Soundtrack French; English Subtitles; Director's Comments; Behind The Scenes
| | Andersonville DVD (1996) Widescreen; Dubbed; Subtitled
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The ambitious miniseries adaptation of MacKinley Kantor's eponymous novel about the inmates of the notoriously overcrowded and brutal Andersonville, Georgia Confederate army prison at the height of the Civil War. Winner of an Emmy for director John Frankenheimer. Produced for TNT.
Closed Captioned; Soundtrack English; Soundtrack French; English Subtitles
| | Hello, Dolly! DVD (1969)
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In early-20th-century Yonkers, a wealthy local merchant, Horace Vandergelder (played by Walter Matthau), hires matchmaker Dolly Levi (Barbra Streisand) to find a mate for him--but instead she decides to win him over for herself. His life is further complicated by his young niece, Ermengarde, who is determined to wed an artist Horace finds entirely unsuitable, and by his two hapless employees, who against Horace's wishes leave work to venture into New York so each can kiss a girl. Miserly, curmudgeonly, irascible Horace finds that matters have gotten completely out of his control--and the only person who seems to know exactly what is going on is the widowed Dolly Levi. The film is based on a succession of source material, beginning with the 1835 British play A DAY WELL SPENT by John Oxenford, Thornton Wilder's 1938 play THE MERCHANT OF YONKERS, and Wilder's successful 1954 adaptation of his own play, renamed THE MATCHMAKER, rewritten for Ruth Gordon and then made into a film by the same name in 1958 starring Shirley Booth. In 1964, Carol Channing starred in the story's next incarnation on Broadway: Michael Stewart's play HELLO, DOLLY! on which this film's screenplay is directly based.
Closed Captioned; Bio/Filmographies; Soundtrack English
| | Birdy DVD (1984) Widescreen
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In Alan Parker's adaptation of William Wharton's acclaimed novel, the title character is a Vietnam vet hospitalized for postwar trauma. Lying in a state of amentia, Birdy (Matthew Modine) fantasizes about birds in flight, an obsession that has haunted him since childhood. Now this fascination acts as a barrier to reality and the pain of his years in Vietnam. After doctors' efforts fail to cure him, his childhood friend Al (Nicolas Cage)--also a discharged soldier nursing wounds from the war--is brought in to try to coax Birdy out of his hallucinations.
BIRDY, told largely in stark, lyrical flashbacks from Al's point of view, is both a heartrending examination of the psychological consequences of war and an ode to the spiritually rejuvenating powers of friendship and imagination. The two young leads turn in powerful, humane performances. Parker (MIDNIGHT EXPRESS) provides innovative direction, most notably in the film's stunning, controversial ending.
Closed Captioned; Standard Screen; Soundtrack English; English Subtitles; Behind The Scenes
| | Carol Channing & Pearl Bailey On Broadway DVD (1969)
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Carol Channing and Pearl Bailey both performed in the mid-Sixties' Broadway production of "Hello, Dolly!" In 1969, ABC Television broadcast a live performance by these two magical singers and performers. Featuring a list of songs which were written and intended for men, Miss Channing and Miss Bailey bring their own wonderful interpretations to such Broadway classics as "If I Were A Rich Man", "The Oldest Established (Permanent Floating Crap Game)" and "There Is Nothing Like A Dame" before finishing with the grand "Hello, Dolly!"
Standard Screen; Additional Footage; Soundtrack English
| | First Nudie Musical DVD (1975)
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Reduced to making stag films to cover his debts, the heir to a once-famous Hollywood studio tries to save the soundstages from foreclosure by producing a bawdy, all-nude musical extravaganza. Notable for its hilarious "audition" segments, which feature such Hollywood notables as Ron Howard and "Laverne and Shirley" star Cindy Williams in bit roles.
Standard Screen; Additional Footage; Bio/Filmographies; Soundtrack English; Director's Comments
| | Light Of My Eyes DVD (2003) Subtitled
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When not transporting wealthy passengers in his luxury cab, Antonio buries his nose in one science fiction novel after another. Unfortunately his bond with the characters in the books surpasses any actual human connection in his life. This remains the case until he meets a woman named Maria and her daughter Lisa. Even when Antonio learns about Maria's troubles, he stays with her, intent on becoming a permanent part of her life. Set in Rome, LIGHT OF MY EYES presents a somber look at the lengths people will go to escape the trap of loneliness and isolation.
Standard Screen; Soundtrack English
| | Verdi: Quattro Pezzi Sacri DVD (2006) Widescreen; DTS Sound
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This 2001 concert found the Easter Festival Orchestra and Chorus performing Verdi's "Quatro Pezzi Sacri," with Paolo Olmi assuming conducting duties.
Standard Screen; Soundtrack English
| | WWE - John Cena: My Life DVDs (2007) Full Frame; Digipak
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Wrestling superstar John Cena reflects on his astonishing life and career in MY LIFE. The three-time WWE champion also shares his greatest moments in this ring, and discusses his high-profile beefs with Edge, Triple H, Shawn Michaels, and others.
Closed Captioned; Standard Screen; Soundtrack English
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