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I’m back….with another diary about my all time favorite movie, West Side Story. As I have written on here before, West Side Story is a film that I never get tired of seeing over and over and over again. This diary is about a whole bunch of reasons why. Some of it will undoubtedly be familiar to all of you, and some of it will not. Afew days ago, on a forum called West Side Story/Live Journal, I noticed a post about the best romance films from the 1940’s through the 1960’s. Along with My Fair Lady, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and a whole bunch of other films, some of which I’d hear
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The film West Side Story just had a national re-release of it, in a number of selected movie theatres, nationwide, on June 24th, and on June 27th. Not knowing how the film would do, I bought tickets for myself, my sister-in-law, and a longtime good friend of mine for the evening show on Sunday, June 24th, and for myself on Wednesday evening, on June 27th. None of us were disappointed; we were all very happily surprised and amazed, in fact. The print of West Side Story was absolutely pristine, and the soundtrack was not only perfect, but it was powerful and in one's face, like it's s
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West Side Story, which has been my all time favorite film, hands down, since having seen it for the very first time, at around Christmastime of 1968, during a big national re-release of this film, when I was a high school Senior, at a now-defunct cinema north of where my siblings & I grew up. Little did I, my friends or family know that my very first viewing of the film West Side Story would begin a love affair with this great classic film that would last all the way through the present! Not only did I fall in love with the film West Side Story instantly, but, since I was still a te- 11 replies
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The 1961 film version of West Side Story is a good, old-fashioned and old-styled movie that cries to be introduced to today's younger generation(s), rather than hashing out a re-make. There's no reason why a great, golden oldie-but-keeper of a classic film like West Side Story should have a re-make. It is what it is--a great classic, which should be left alone. There are different opinions on the film West Side Story, ranging from the opinions that it's really a great flick (which it is!), to the opinions that it's too sanitized, too formulated, too mawkish and maudlin, too unreali
