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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD DVD Layers: 1 DVD Sides: 1 EAN: 9786305805243 Format: Classical, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC ISBN: 6305805245 Label: Sling Shot Languages: Manufacturer: Sling Shot Number Of Items: 1 Picture Format: Academy Ratio Publisher: Sling Shot Release Date: March 26, 2002 Running Time: 200 minutes Studio: Sling Shot Theatrical Release Date: September 29, 1966 Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Historic BalletSome have quibbles with the quality of the visuals on this DVD, but every version has some problems, because the film this was made from was almost lost ... I'm jut happy to be able to see it in any form - it's a really important moment of ballet & ballet film history. 4 ballets here, all very different, with different strengths. The Diamond Muncher - an unusual "modern" fable with marvelous melodies, especially the pas de duex. With Zizi Jeanmaire Cyranno - A lyric production ... Read More Rating:  - miserable disc quality --- beautiful dancingi can't believe how poor in quality this disc was. sometimes you can hardly make out any of the details. but the dancing is magnificent. and to see cyd charisse so young and glowing and absolutely gorgeous is a real treat. and cyrano was wonderful, as was carmen. i wasn't crazy about the first piece, but the rest are all worth it. i want to give this disc a five star rating for what it contains, but it is just such a miserable printing. Rating:  - But Unmentioned Surprise Bonus: Early Experimental Dance Film This DVD would not be very high on my list were it not for the final 10 minute bonus at the end of the program. After the unbearably kitschy Black Tights and Bolshoi '67, we discover an unexpected little gem titled Spring Night, an early experimental dance film. Spring Night is a lushly erotic miniature ballet in the stylistic lineage of the Ballets Russes. It was made in 1935, only a half dozen years after the death of Serge Diaghilev. It was choreographed by the beautiful and sinuous Russian ... Read More Rating: - Excellent. Brilliant Carmen.Best combination of fetching legs since Eleanor Powell danced alone. The Carmen sequence was enchanting. Rating:  - Dancers who should not be forgottenI am a lifelong fan of Cyd Charisse and consider her the very best female dancer hollywood has ever produced - she never disappoints and her feature is the best of the DVD. Moira Shearer, whom I also like but know less of, is also wonderful in her way, vulnerable and graceful. I found Roland Petit's Cyrano (ballet, not his performance) a bit convoluted - a lot of material to get into a feauterette. Zizi Jeanmarie is the epitome of the French dancer and the ballet itself the epitome of what we foreigners think ... Read More |
