Why do you kids live like there's a war on? West Side Story is directed by Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise. It stars Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris, Simon Oakland and Ned Glass. Music is by Leonard Bernstein (lyrics by Stephen Sondheim) and cinematography by Daniel L. Fapp. In the less affluent areas of the upper West Side of Manhattan, New York, a gang of Polish-American teenagers called "The Jets" are in conflict with a rival gang of immigrated ...
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Not one for me. I did not enjoy 1961's <em>'West Side Story'</em>, unfortunately. I felt almost everything about it to be kinda crappy if I'm honest. For one I didn't feel any chemistry with the cast, with no standout performer in sight; and that's on top of the iffy casting itself. None of the music - aside from that one tiny bit of "Tonight" - hits and the story comes across as forced. The musical numbers are also extremely staged, the whole thing feels like a stage performance rather th...
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**An old musical with some hints of ethnic prejudice, and it didn't seem as good as I thought it would be.** This is one of those films that, honestly, I find difficult to understand. It is a production that brought to the cinema an interesting Broadway musical, which is still shown in several places today, and which tells a story similar to Romeo and Juliet in the context of youth gang wars in New York in the mid-20th century. The idea is seductive, and developing it from Shakespeare's sourc...
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In County Durham, England, 1984, a talented young dancer, Billy Elliot, stumbles out of the boxing ring and onto the ballet floor. He faces many trials and triumphs as he strives to conquer his family...
Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.
Dr. Tony Flagg's friend Steven has problems in the relationship with his fiancée Amanda, so he persuades her to visit Tony. After some minor misunderstandings, she falls in love with him. When he trie...
Australian journalist Guy Hamilton travels to Indonesia to cover civil strife in 1965. There—on the eve of an attempted coup—he befriends a Chinese Australian photographer with a deep connection to an...
A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
Dominique Pinon takes the viewer through various examples of what he "likes and dislikes."
by Johnny Green,West Side Story Orchestra
by Johnny Green,West Side Story Orchestra
by Tucker Smith
by Jim Bryant
by mpJohnny Green,West Side Story Orchestra,West Side Story Chorus
by Jim Bryant
by George Chakiris,Rita Moreno,West Side Story Chorus
by Jim Bryant,Marni Nixon
by Russ Tamblyn
The Jets make fun of Officer Krupke
by Johnny Green,West Side Story Orchestra,Stephen Sondheim
The 2003 DVD restored the intermission that was slated for the roadshow release of the film
