LOS ANGELES, Jan 10 Belfast and West Side Story are among the frontrunners for a drastically scaled-down 79th Golden Globes today, where winners will be unveiled via Twitter from an untelevised ceremony that is being boycotted by Hollywood. The Globes in the past billed as Tinseltown’s.
in new york s washington heights neighbourhood. the film was released this year. he has now directed his first movie, tick tick boom, jonathan larson, a talented composer behind the musical rent, who longs to achieve something of note by his s0th birthday. i know that i worked really hard to get good at writing musicals and that skill set was helpful to me in several ways, because of course what you know you don t know. i learnt a lot on this which i will bring me hopefully to the next one, but musicals are like real life but more fun. and a desire to see a better version of real life may be driving audiences to see this new round of stories. i think we are looking for full expression, exuberance. we are looking for a cinematic experience and we are looking to sing together, maybe.
the 1961 west side story film was part of a world where big budget musicals rules the land. they made a lot of money and won oscar trophies. then, in the 1970s and 80s, the cinema musical seemed to slip away, but could steven spielberg s west side story herald a rebirth? emma jones reports. emma: the road to steven spielberg s west side story started with a 1950s stage musical starring carol as maria and larry kurtz as tony. the broadway version of the musical west side story first appeared here in new york in 1957 in this theatre behind me and the film adaptation followed soon afterwards, not the first time that hollywood has sought to capitalise on broadway success. that multi oscar winning original west side story was part of a decade
hour. now on bbc news, it s time for a special episode of talking movies devoted to the world premiere of steven speilberg s new film, west side story. i will give you a plug for the film review on the iplayer, because mark reviewed this yesterday. but now there is the special edition looking at a west side story. hello, from new york. i am tom brook and welcome to talking movies. today, our entire programme is devoted to what must rank as one of the big movie events of 2021, the release of steven spielberg s long awaited
oscars all over this. i mean, i see oscars for tony kushner, for steven spielberg, for this dynamic new cast and the wonderful rita moreno. it is a sensational film and i think it will do extremely well at the box office and during the awards time. west side story of course only really came together as a result of the hard labours of three time oscar winner stephen spielberg. arguably one of hollywood s most influential and successful film makers. so, the man who brought us jaws, et, the indiana jones movies, jurassic park, saving private ryan, schindler s list and many other films has finally turned his hand to making a musicalfilm for the first time. i got the opportunity to talk to him virtually a few days ago. i think i wanted to direct a musicalfilm because i knew