Welcome to The B-Side, from The Movie Stage. Right here we speak about film stars! Not the films that made them well-known or stored them well-known, however the ones that they made in between.
At present is Barbra Streisand day! And what a day it’s. Simply sooner or later after Babs herself introduced the begin to manufacturing of her accepted documentary movie, during which she plans to unveil the artistic contents of her fairly well-known vault, we right here at The B-Side deal with among the legend’s lesser-seen movies. They embrace The Owl and the Pussycat, Up the Sandbox, For Pete’s Sake, Nuts, and The Guilt Journey. Our visitor on this long-in-the-making journey is Chris Feil, co-host of the unimaginable This Had Oscar Buzz podcast.
We discuss concerning the autobiography in all of its glory. We speak about Barbra’s early years, Barbra’s late years, her ardour for design, her difficult historical past with film administrators, and her greatest albums. There’s additionally hefty dialogue about A-side Yentl, and why it’s funnier and sexier than you keep in mind. It’s additionally a masterpiece.
There’s debate about how a lot The Guilt Journey in the end labored, how precisely Barbra mastered taking part in a “regular person” by the point The Prince of Tides comes round, and the way Nuts would’ve been higher if Barbra had directed it.
Extra highlights embrace mistaking Philip Bosco for Karl Malden, celebrating Richard Dreyfuss taking part in bothered to perfection, and Chris’ post-TIFF takes. Mike Leigh and Marianne Jean-Baptiste save us!
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