West Side Story Blu-ray (US)

West Side Story Blu-ray (US)

50th Anniversary Edition / Blu-ray + DVD

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 1961 | 152 min | Not rated | Nov 15, 2011

Modern day "Romeo and Juliet" musical about a teen from one gang who falls for a Puerto Rican girl whose brother is from a rival gang, and no one wants them to be together, all happening on the streets of New York City.

Starring: Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris
Director: Robert Wise

Video
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1
French: DTS 5.1
Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1
German: DTS 5.1
English: Dolby Digital 4.0

English, English SDH, French, Spanish (less)

Subtitles

English SDH, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Mandarin (Traditional), Norwegian, Swedish

Discs
50GB Blu-ray Disc
Three-disc set (2 BDs, 1 DVD)
DVD copy

Playback
Region free

Cover

Slipcover in original pressing

Availability

1-5 days

Harga

Rp. 349.000

Special Features

• Pow! The Dances of West Side Story (HD; 19:12) can either be accessed as in-movie supplements via seamless branching or played on their own. The many iconic dance sequences are analyzed by such talking heads as Robert Relyea, Assistant Director of West Side Story, Jamie Bernstein (Leonard Bernstein's daughter), Yvonne Wilder, who played Consuelo in the film, as well as others less connected to the film, including everyone from Debbie Allen to Mikhail Baryshnikov.
• Song Specific Commentary by Stephen Sondheim. Sondheim has long harangued himself over some of his lyrics for West Side Story, and he does so again here, repeating some of the same anecdotes he relates in accompanying featurettes. We still love you, Steve.
• Music Machine (HD; 1:25:07) is a video jukebox of all the film's musical sequences. Each song/sequence can also be accessed individually.
• A Place for Us: West Side Story's Legacy (1080i; 29:28) is a decent if occasionally kind of silly retrospective documenting the film's cultural impact. When you get everything from Baryshnikov to The Fantastic Mr. Fox, things are by their very nature highly variable, but it's great to hear from Sondheim and some of the actors in the 1961 film recount their memories and what the film meant to them personally and professionally.
• West Side Memories (SD; 55:55) is an older featurette offering archival recordings of Jerome Robbins, as well as reminiscences by original Book writer Arthur Laurents, lyricist Sondheim, director Hal Prince and a wealth of people involved in the motion picture version. The problems which ensued between Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise are recounted and are quite interesting.
• Storyboard to Film Comparison Montage (SD; 4:50)
• Trailers (HD; 11:50). (If you want a great example of just how great the new transfer looks in general terms, compare it to the first theatrical trailer shown in this collection, especially with regard to color).
• Tribute CD contains covers of the score's iconic songs by such artists as Charlotte Church, Dave Grusin, Maynard Ferguson and Julie Andrews.
• Hardcover Book has lots of photos and an Introduction by Producer Walter Mirisch.
• Reproductions of International Posters on Postcards