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Funny Girl / Funny Lady (Widescreen) - 2 Disc Box Set [DVD] [1969]

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Binding : DVD
EAN : 5035822060111
Label : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Manufacturer : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Publisher : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Release date : 2002-03-04
Title : Funny Girl / Funny Lady (Widescreen) - 2 Disc Box Set [DVD] [1969]
Actor : Array
Audience rating : Parental Guidance
Format : Array
Languages : Array
Number of items : 2
Original release date : 1969-01-15
Region code : 2
Running time : 272
Studio : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Theatrical releaseDate : 1975-03-15
Number of discs : 1

Editorial reviews

Amazon.co.uk Review
Like giant monuments to good old-fashioned star quality, IFunny Girl/I (1968) and IFunny Lady/I (1975) hark back to the golden days of American vaudeville, while essentially celebrating one of the great, egotistical show-business talents of all time. Viewed end to end, these two films, which tell the story of Ziegfeld comedienne Fanny Brice, run for almost five hours. That's a lot of biopic. But with the greatest of respect to Brice, undoubtedly a formidable star of her time, the talent really in the spotlight here belongs to Barbra Streisand. Streisand created the role of Fanny Brice in the 1964 Broadway stage musical and her performance for the big screen is a Itour de force/I, fully deserving the Best Actress Oscar which she received. p As a biopic, IFunny Girl/I is superior fare, full of sumptuous production numbers. Brice's glory days are explored against the background of her turbulent private life with her flawed playboy husband Nicky Arnstein (a sympathetic performance from Omar Sharif) with considerable attention to the details of her inner turmoil. More rambling and less cohesive, IFunny Lady/I finds Fanny divorced but still in love with Arnstein (Sharif also revisiting his role), drifting into marriage number two with uncouth songwriter and impresario Billy Rose (the excellent James Caan), her successful career again juxtaposed with a less than happy personal life. p Combined, both films measure Streisand's rise to greatness. In IFunny Girl/I, the bravura of the performance as a whole masks occasional gaucheness, while if IFunny Lady/I is the less impressive picture overall, it still marks how far she has developed as a screen actress. The rough edges are gone, replaced by a sophisticated poise and the sense of a talent that has come to terms with itself. And of course throughout she is superb in the musical numbers, which include her theme song "People" and the classic belter "Don't Rain on my Parade", as well as Brice's classic torch song, "My Man".p BOn the DVD:/B this package of tremendous, old-fashioned entertainment takes the viewer back to pre-multiplex days when going to the cinema was an event you might dress up for. IFunny Lady/I's soundtrack includes a pre-picture "Overture" to give you time to unwrap the chocolates. You really need some plush velvet curtains to swing back across the television screen. Then, guaranteeing a twinge of nostalgia, there's an intermission break. Both films are presented in their original widescreen 2.35:1 aspect ratio. Dolby Digital 5.0 (IFunny Girl/I) and LCR (IFunny Lady/I) soundtracks do justice to Streisand's lung power. The first disc offers the most interesting extras, including a couple of featurettes about Streisand. Both discs provide standard filmographies and song highlights so Streisand addicts can skip between numbers to their hearts' content.--IPiers Ford/I

Customer reviews

review by: date: 2009-03-14 rating:

Fab
Wonderful films by Barbara S. The love story flows over the two films and from first viewinG (when I was so much younger) I have always referred to Married ladies as Sadie Sadie. By way I still have yet to be Sadie Sadie but hope does flourish.

review by: date: 2008-01-04 rating:

Amusing and sad in parts.
PLEASE NOTE: This review refers to 'Funny Girl' only. br / br /It's the first time I've ever seen this picture, and as I'm not a big Streisand fan, I did not think I would be that impressed, but I was pleasantly surprised! br / br /Barbra Streisand is extremely funny as 'Funny Girl' Fanny Brice, and she also plays the sad scenes with equal sincerity. However, the film was spoilt for me at about halfway through, when someone held up a live Lobster to Streisand's character and she responds; 'start boiling water' - call me silly, but this ruined it for me... Why something so horrid should have been brought into a musical and light-hearted film of this type is quite beyond me... br / br /Left a nasty taste in my mouth, and so I could not bring myself to give this five stars...

review by: johnmike14 date: 2005-08-05 rating:

Funny Girl v Funny Lady
Well what can I say Bab's at her best in funny girl but as with most sequels a bit of a let down not by the acting but by the script.

review by: josiew58 date: 2004-05-26 rating:

Barb at her best
loosely based on Fanny Brice, these two films can show me something new every time I watch them.Fanny as a young girl is as gawky as they come but Miss Brice was a very determined lady, she wanted it all,and boy, does she achieve it. The appearance of Cairo Fred (Omar) adds to the thrills, the seduction scene in his hotel (Funny Girl) still holds the magic. Great songs, good story, magnificant cast.........

review by: frogjuice date: 2003-08-13 rating:

Interesting Conversion to DVD
I bought this for my Mum as a gift. Thinking she's watching it happily, i go off to do something mroe interesting.brHeeeeeelp - she cries. its broken.pno- but there are four minutes of blackness before the picture starts and then, halfway through there is an intermission.....pSo Good films, bad bad bad bad bad movie-DVD edit.brIncidentally - If you've got it, then skip forward to 00:03:59brand it shoudl be ok. Right?

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