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Academy award, golden globe and emmy awardwinner forest whitaker the last king of scotland, phone booth, as parker, provides a multifaceted performance that helps provide an understanding. Parker was a highly influential jazz soloist and the lead. Most of bird, clint eastwoods film biography of the legendary jazz. Bird 1988 cast and crew director clint eastwood, a noted jazz aficionado, directs this heartfelt study of pioneering bop saxophonist charlie parker forest whitaker. Clint eastwood directed movie of the life of charlie bird parker. Crouch begins by dropping you in medias res on a hot, 1940s new york city bandstand with the jay mcshann band featuring charlie parker on alto sax. Bird, a tale torn from the short life of the legendary saxophonist charlie parker, is the th movie clint. In this movie and its hot, fast bursts of bop, charlie parker gets a fitting elegy. Stanley crouch recounts rise of charlie bird parker duration. Forest whitaker stars as brilliant jazz saxophonist charlie bird parker in academy awardwinning director clint eastwoods homage to birds life and genius.

So far there are only a hand full of them that are good enough for me to watch. Bird is a movie that demands your full attention, refusing to yield all its. From 1935 to 1939, he played the missouri nightclub scene with local jazz and blues bands. Live bird a one man play about lazz legend charlie bird parker. Eastwood has captured the essence of parker and the music is wonderful. With forest whitaker, diane venora, michael zelniker, samuel e. A biopic on charlie bird parker, clint eastwood crafts this. A thinly fictionalized account of a legendary movie director, whose desire to hunt down an animal turns into a grim situation with his movie. At the end of the movie, andrew has his artistic breakthrough. Although the first scene of bird shows the young charlie parker in a rustic setting, the film seldom ventures outdoors after that. But it rewards that attention with a rich and poignant study of a. Bird is less moving as a character study than it is as a tribute and as a labor of love.

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