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Robert Crawford I know you are not a big fan of musicals but do you like Funny Girl?

Don't though Roller Skate Rag and His Love Makes Me Beautiful have laughter when the laughter of the audience is the point? After that we know the audience finds her funny. Comic numbers performed on stage usually don't have laughter because It would be distracting. You as a film viewer need to...

The featurette mentions Hoboken and as I said the train tracks really do look like Hoboken but the station itself no. I'm the only person I know who likes the second half of the film. It's where Wyler's talent as a dramatic director comes to the fore. The confrontations are well written, well...

I never saw the original roadshow run of Funny Girl(though I passed in front the Criterion a number of times with my family when it was there) but saw it when it came out to the suburbs, saw it in revival houses, saw it at Radio City and the restored film at the Ziegfeld but never saw the super...

I believe they cut the entire swan lake number or at least most of it when the film was re-released in the early seventies. No loss. Poor Tommy Rall who is one of the greatest male dancers Hollywood has known doesn't even get any credit but it's just as well because he has nothing to do. What a...

The curtain call is on youtube if you want to get an idea of the physical production. And I believe the entire Menier production in London which received raves for its star Sheridan Smith is also there.

Never heard that before. That was good.

The film looks superb on bluray and being that it was filmed in Panavision rather than 70MM is the streaming 4k a noticeable improvement? One of the films I most would have liked to have seen roadshow at the Criterion but a bit too young.