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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: MGM HOME VIDEO (UNDER FOX)
EAN: 9780792850250
Feature: Oscar®-winners* Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo rejoin forces to create a mesmerizing (L.A. Weekly) homage to 1930s gangster films and musicals. Nominated** for three Oscars®, The Cotton Club is a genuine vision (Newsweek) of the golden age of jazz you won t soon forget! 1928, New York. Spirits are high and sultry jazz, lively dancing and ruthless gangsters rule supreme. In the cent
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792850254
Item Dimensions: 25
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 5.1FrenchOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 MonoSpanishSubtitledFrenchSubtitled
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
MPN: 1002205
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 10, 2001
Running Time: 129 minutes
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: December 14, 1984
Features:- Oscar®-winners* Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo rejoin forces to create a mesmerizing (L.A. Weekly) homage to 1930s gangster films and musicals. Nominated** for three Oscars®, The Cotton Club is a genuine vision (Newsweek) of the golden age of jazz you won t soon forget! 1928, New York. Spirits are high and sultry jazz, lively dancing and ruthless gangsters rule supreme. In the cent
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Oscar®-winners* Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo rejoin forces to create a mesmerizing (L.A. Weekly) homage to 1930s gangster films and musicals. Nominated** for three Oscars® The Cotton Club is a genuine vision (Newsweek) of the golden age of jazz you won t soon forget!1928 New York. Spirits are high and sultry jazz lively dancing and ruthless gangsters rule supreme. In the center of it all is Harlem s Cotton Club. Playing on stage is cornet player Dixie Dwyer (Gere) who dreams of the big time but he s too mixed up with the club s owner (Hoskins) -- and his sexy moll (Lane) -- to get anywhere fast. Add the frustration of tap sensation Sandman Williams (Hines) who can t touch his girl the lovely lounge singer Lea Rose Oliver (Lonette McKee) and you ve got a short fuse ready to go. As tensions rise so do tempers and the legendary nightclub becomes a pressure cooker of jilted loves and mob jobs that blows the lid off one of the most shocking showdowns ever staged.System Requirements: Running Time 129 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 027616864369 Manufacturer No: 1002205
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The Cotton Club is routinely eclipsed by the controversies that surrounded its tumultuous production, but the film itself offers abundant pleasures that should not be overlooked. If Apocalypse Now represents the triumph of director Francis Coppola's perilous ambition, then The Cotton Club represents the ungainly glory of uncontrolled genius, as brilliant as it is out of its depth. As an upscale homage to classic gangster films it's frequently astonishing, cramming a thick novel's worth of plot and characters into 129 minutes, gloriously serviced by impeccable production design, elegant cinematography, and stylistic flourishes that show Coppola at the top of his game.
What The Cotton Club lacks is cohesion. As written by Coppola and novelist William Kennedy (then enjoying the peak of his critical acclaim), the movie struggles to exceed the narrative scope of The Godfather, but its multiple early-'30s plot lines fail to form any strong connective tissue. It's three (or four) movies in one, with cornet player Dixie Dwyer (Richard Gere, playing his own jazzy solos) drifting from one story to the next--loving a young, ambitious vamp (Diane Lane, with whom Gere shares precious little chemistry), enjoying the success of a hotshot hoofer (Gregory Hines), and protecting his brazen bother (Coppola's then-newcomer nephew, Nicolas Cage) from the deadly temper of mob boss Dutch Schultz (James Remar). Bob Hoskins and Fred Gwynne also score big in grand supporting roles, but The Cotton Club is perhaps best appreciated for its meticulous re-creation of Harlem's Cotton Club heyday, and the brilliant music (Ellington, Calloway, etc.) that brought rhythm to gangland's rat-a-tat-tat. --Jeff Shannon
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One of my all-time favorite movies (I'm a jazz player as well as fan), this delivers the best performance by Richard Gere in his career - and artfully compelling, lushly shot masterpiece that deserves much higher kudos than the public has given thus far.
The dp (dir photography) deserves an award, as do the writers/producers and actors -- this gives a rare, thoughtfully shot glimpse into 1930s jazz and gangster-era life and is one of my all time favorite movies. It's authentic, it's ... Read More
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Quite satisfied with the promptness of delivery and excellent quality of film. Thanks for producing the hard-to-find merchandise.
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Not a big musical fan (to put it mildly) I was a bit concerned there would be too much singing and dancing in this movie but it was not too much and the music and dancing was pivotal elements in recreating a past era... and on top very enjoyable to watch and listen mostly....
It managed to mix as a 'period movie' showing the early 30s for what they were in New York, a gangster movie, multiple love stories, covered the racial inequalities (in particular the treatment of blacks and coloured ... Read More
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Absolutely brilliant recreation of the atmosphere of the cotton club and its music and dancing. The opening credits with the Mooche is electric. So is the musical Montage at the end. Unfortunately the plot is pretty awful. The gangster part should have been played down considerably and the musical aspect of the Cotton Club should have been the focus. The entire Nicolas Cage and Dutch Shultz subplot could have been removed. They should have kept the Gere / Lane and the Hines / Mckee love story. The gangster ... Read More
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