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BIRD THE CHARLIE PARKER STORY
Released:1988
Studio: Warner Home Video
DVD Release Date: January 30, 2001
Run Time: 161 minutes
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A dark and atmospheric biopic on jazz legend Charlie Parker, who with his fast improvisational style formed the sub-genre of bebop. Clint Eastwood directed this movie with a heart and passion that reflects back to his own love of the music which he has carried with him all his life and played a role in all his work. Eastwood himself actually was fortunate to have seen Charlie \"Bird\" Parker play in when he was alive. The film chronicles his life and has a tight focus on his self destructive behavior and the music itself. Bird explores the highs and lows of his journey. Playing to a sold out house in Paris, playing alongside Dizzy Gillespie, and earning a respect that few other musicians have matched. In contrast we see his heroine addiction, his suffering and depression resulting in several suicide attempts, the death of his daughter, and his wife\'s loving struggle to help save a man who\'s ill-fate was inevitable and irreversible.

Clint Eastwood\'s moody, evocative direction and Forest Whitaker\'s strong, sensitive performance are the chief proponents to recommend an otherwise muted biopic of \'40s jazz legend Charlie Parker, who fell victim to his chemical excesses and convinced the doctor who pronounced him dead that he was a good four decades older than he actually was. The film doesn\'t try to assign clear blame for Parker\'s demons, though the era\'s racism is addressed unflinchingly. Clearly a labor of love, Eastwood\'s movie structurally attempts to ape the angular music of bebop itself (there are flashbacks within flashbacks, which gets a little confusing), but doesn\'t quite capture the smolder of the period. Diane Venora registers strongly as Bird\'s wife, Chan, the woman who can\'t rescue Bird from the abyss into which he peers. --David Kronke

Bird The year: 1946. The event: Oakland\'s \"Jazz at the Philharmonic.\" The music streaked into the unknown, daring listeners to grab hold and fly there, too. On stage was the creator of those new sounds: Charles \"Yardbird\" Parker. In the crowd was the 16-year-old who would someday bring Parker\'s extraordinary story to the screen: Clint Eastwood. \"Americans don\'t have any original art except Western movies and jazz,\" observes Eastwood. Movie fans, of course, know that few heroes sit as tall in the saddles as Eastwood. Now the legendary America icon, whose Dirty Harry films have been praised for their jazz scores, ventures deeper into that other original American art. Eastwood produces and directs Bird, a film burnished with the magic of that 1946 concert encounter between legend and future legend and honored with an Academy Award for Best Sound in its spellbinding recreation of a man and his music. Like jazz itself, Bird rings with counterpoints and embellishments. Past and future overlap as the film explores Yardbird\'s soaring skill and destructive excesses.
For Bird\'s wall-to-wall-to-everywhere digitally-processed Surround Stereo soundtrack, Eastwood went to the source: Parker\'s recordings (including cuts never before released). Backgrounds were electronically eliminated. These parker \"solos\" were then rerecorded with accompaniment by modern musicians attuned to Yardbird\'s bold improvisations. It\'s \"like Bird was in the studio,\" says music supervisor Lennie Niehaus. He\'s elsewhere, too. That\'s why jazz buffs and now film fans have a saying \'Bird lives”



Directors: Clint Eastwood
Writers: Joel Oliansky
Producers: Clint Eastwood, David Valdes
Cast
Forest Whitaker as Charlie \"Bird\" Parker
Diane Venora as Chan Parker
Michael Zelniker as Red Rodney
Samuel E. Wright as Dizzy Gillespie
Keith David as Buster Franklin
Diane Salinger as Baroness Nica
Michael McGuire as Brewster
James Handy as Esteves
Damon Whitaker as Young Bird
Morgan Nagler as Kim
Arlen Dean Snyder as Dr Heath
Sam Robards as Moscowitz
Penelope Windust as Bellevue Nurse
Glenn Wright as Alcoholic Patient (as Glenn T. Wright)
George Orrison as Patient with Checkers
Bill Cobbs as Dr Caulfield



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