So this movie is crammed when ingredients that had proven successful in earlier movies in the 60´s : Barbra Streisand and a musical score (Funny Girl), gigantic sets and costumes in 19th century style (My Fair Lady), 60´s mod clothing, a big European star for the overseas market (Montand), new young stars (Nicholson) for counterculture hippy flavor, student riots (very 'now' then), reincarnation and telepathy (sci-fi), british accents both snobby and cockney (swinging London)īarbra is one of the biggest talents of the 20th century and was born a little too late. So many ideas propped into one movie to make it popular and a box office hit in a time of change and when the big movie companies were desperately seeking hits to save themselves from ruin. The first time I saw it was such a huge elephant of a movie, a baffling entertaining jumble. On A Clear Day improves and is more enjoyable for each viewing. Reviewed by Xanadu-2 10 / 10 Gets better every time. Still, this no-frills DVD release offers a best-possible print in terms of both sound and picture, and both long-time fans and newcomers will adore it. It would seem these scenes are gone forever, and more's the pity. The film was originally intended to be released in a three hour version-but in the wake of several box office disasters for large scale musicals both Minnelli and the studio thought better of it and cut the film significantly. Add in such beautifully orchestrated and performed songs as "It's Lovely Up Here," "Come Back To Me," and the title piece-and when all is said and done ON A CLEAR DAY is a very enjoyable film indeed. LOUIS, and he endows the film with his very elegant eye the "past life" sequences, in which designer Cecil Beaton had a hand, are particularly beautiful. This was the last musical for Vincent Minnelli, perhaps the greatest director of golden age musicals and creator of such films as MEET ME IN ST. The remaining cast, which includes a very young Jack Nicholson and Bob Newhart, is equally fine.
Although it seems many Americans fail to see the appeal of the great French singer and actor Yves Montand, he handles his songs with the same world-weary style that first brought him to the attention of the legendary Edith Piaf-and it proves a remarkably effective foil for Streisand, setting off her expansive performance to perfection.
Streisand is memorably fresh in the role of Daisy and performs her numbers with remarkable youthful zeal and a flawless artistry she is a tremendous amount of fun to watch and an endless pleasure to hear. Charbot (Yves Montand.) But it happens that Daisy, for all her goofiness, is unexpectedly gifted: she can find lost items, she knows when the telephone will ring-and once under hypnosis she stuns Charbot by transforming into Melinda, a woman who lived, loved, and died more than a century before. The story concerns a scatter-brained young woman named Daisy Gamble (Barbra Streisand) who is desperate to quit smoking and who lays siege to a noted hypnotist Dr. This is a pity, for although it cannot be classed among the truly great musical musicals it is nonetheless a very good one, imaginatively filmed and beautifully performed. Reviewed by gftbiloxi 8 / 10 An Under-Rated Charmerīased on the marginally successful 1965 Broadway musical with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Learner and a solid score by Burton Lane, the 1970 ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER was no box office disaster-but it was a disappointment, failing to draw a broad audience and performing much more poorly than any one had imagined.
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There is laughter, sorrow, drama, singing, dancing, lots of Barbra skin showing, sexuality, scorn, mocking, a panorama of events and celebrations and Barbra's eventual awakening as her own person. All in all, this is my favorite movie of all time. The periods in history represented by the film are stunningly presented. The costumes are out of this world, and the film should have won an academy award for costume design, although Barbra's figure did her costumes justice. She has to STRETCH to play a mousy crowd follower, and then switch it up to play a haughty wealthy socialite in a past time period. Jack is especially funny in his short scenes with Barbra and her fiancée.īut the main reason to see this flick is the acting and musical talent of Barbra. But for those of you who don't, it's worth a catch just to see Bob Newhart and Jack Nicholson as "young" men. Okay, granted you have to like Barbra Streisand to love this movie. Reviewed by betazoid3 10 / 10 My All Time Favorite Movie
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