Funny Girl/Funny Lady | Barbra Streisand, James Caan

Funny Girl/Funny Lady | Barbra Streisand, James Caan | Awesome FInd

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Funny Girl/Funny Lady

	Funny Girl/Funny Lady Barbra Streisand, James Caan Sony Pictures, 2005 average customer review:based on 18 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 02/22/2005

Movie set

This is one of Streisand's best. I purchased it as a Christmas gift for my 15 year old Granddaughter who loves the old musicals. Good for the whole family. "Funny Girl" is a must see if you like musicals.

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What a way to find two classics together in one set. Took me back to my youth is the best way i can describe it

funny girl/ funny lady

I've enjoyed both these movies for a long time and when I saw it in a set, couldn't pass it up. Barbara Streisand fans will not be disappointed.

Hello Barbra!

Imagine making your first movie and it becoming an instant classic?

Barbra Streisand was already a star of records/ television and, of course, the stage where FUNNY GIRL was first presented. But could she transfer her quirky, highly exotic looks and original and undefined personality to the screen?

She did and you only have to watch a few minutes of FUNNY GIRL to know that the woman is a star who rightly has earned her place.

From the opening lines to the end where she breaks the rules and does a live performance of "My Man", the film clearly belongs to Ms. Streisand. (Note: I recall seeing the film at the Criterion theater in NYC during the Christmas holidays in 1969; the management would open up the doors leading to the street for the last five minutes of the reserved seating film. Would you believe people would wait out in the cold just to hear Barbra sing "My Man"? Well they did and that is the kind of star power that makes both FUNNY GIRL and FUNNY LADY nothing short of fantastic.)

Although FUNNY LADY is not the film that FUNNY GIRL is, give it a chance. Produced in the "new style" way of CABARET, the camera got more into the musical numbers so that a bit of the staginess and old fashion charm is lost. That does not mean that, again, Barbra Streisand does not pull off another major coup.

Good singing/ acting and fantastic family fun. Who can ask for more?

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Great combo price, but missing a great extra from solo Funny Girl DVD

I'm getting this even though I already own "Funny Girl". The price for this duo is less than purchasing "Funny Lady" DVD alone. The only negative is that the "Funny Girl" (only) DVD has a great extra entitled "Barbra in Movieland", which is a very entertaining, detailed, well-narrated, behind the scenes short, concentrating on the filming of the musical number, "Don't Rain on My Parade". Many DVD "featurettes" bore me as mostly everyone interviewed banally talks endlessly about how talented and wonderful everyone else is; how lucky they are to be involved in such a "profound" project; etc. This short was obviously produced, possibly as a promotional piece, during or shortly after the actual filming in 1968. An old abandoned railway station in New Jersey is shown being brought back to turn-of-the-20th century-life. Its only current inhabitant, an elderly (real-life) caretaker who has worked at the station for decades, including its more active days as a bustling transportation hub. His presents and occasional comments provide an interesting and nostalgic aspect to the piece He relates going to see the real Fanny Brice years before. William Wyler even gives him a cameo in the scene; But he probably won't go see the film, "My wife and I don't get to the movies much anymore", he says. I've pulled out this DVD a number of times just to watch this extra. I can't say that very often.

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