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Bird
DVD 
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The year: 1946. The event: Oakland's Jazz at the Philharmonic. The music streaked into the unknown, daring listeners to grab hold and fly there, too. On stage was the creator of those new sounds: Charles Yardbird Parker. In the crowd was the 16-year-old who would someday bring Parker's extraordinary story to the screen: Clint Eastwood. Americans don't have any original art except Western movies and jazz, observes Eastwood. Movie fans, of course, know that few heroes sit as tall in the saddles as Eastwood. Now the legendary America icon, whose Dirty Harry films have been praised for their jazz scores, ventures deeper into that other original American art. Eastwood produces and directs Bird, a film burnished with the magic of that 1946 concert encounter between legend and future legend and honored with an Academy Award for Best Sound in it's spellbinding recreation of a man and his music. Like jazz itself, Bird rings with counterpoints and embellishments. Past and future overlap as the film explores Yardbird's soaring skill and destructive excesses.

Title: Bird
Genre: Drama, Biography
Theme: Academy Award Winner
Starring: Sam Wright, Forest Whitaker, Diane Venora, Michael Zelniker, Keith David, Glenn T Wright
Director: Clint Eastwood
Studio: Warner Home Video
Attributes: Repackaged, Eco Amaray Case
Release Date: 6/1/2010
Original Year: 1988
Product Type: DVD
Rated: R
UPC: 883929126392
Item #: BBC912639

Closed Caption: Yes
Street Date: 6/1/2010
Original Language: ENG

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