Hair
by Milos Forman
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Actor: Annie Golden, Beverly D'Angelo, Dorsey Wright, John Savage, Treat WilliamsDirector: Milos Forman
Brand: Hair
Cinematographer: Jean Talvin
Producer: Lester Persky
Producer: Michael Butler
Producer: Robert Greenhut
Writer: Gerome Ragni
Writer: James Rado
Writer: Michael Weller
DVD: 2 Sides, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 1.85:1
Running Time: 121 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-04-27
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
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Movie Review: Still a Big Disappointment
Summary: 2 Stars
Initially I had seen this movie on TV. I didn't like it - but I attributed that feeling to the fact that I was watching a movie on a small screen format for TV along with frequent interruptions for commercials.
So - I figured I would give it another try, bought the DVD and watched it in wide-screen format. I then realized that my first impression was on the mark. Big disappointment.
My reasons:
This was filmed in 1979 and looks like it was filmed in '79. The 60's were only ten years earlier, but the styles and the atmosphere here in NYC were much different from the late 70's. The costumes are basically what people were wearing in 1978-79. Example: the scene for the song "White Boys". There does not appear to have been any attempts in authenticating the earlier decade.
Wide angle scenes of dancers, as in Central Park were shot in frames which served to restrict the dance movement. The Twyla Thorpe choreography did not capture the zest and excitement that had been in the play. Yes - Ms. Thorpe is a legend and I am a fan - but the dance scenes appeared disjointed, robotic and inappropriate for a play of self-realization and non-conformity.
Practically every scene was filmed under a gray sky. The zombie-like dancing along with the '70's garb did not help to counteract the mood.
Hopefully someday another movie version of this fantastic play will be made and hopefully the director will present it with creativity and a feel for the period piece that it is.
Summary of Hair
Brimming with the energy, passion and music that rocked a nation, Hair is an entertaining and powerful tribute to the turbulent spirit of the '60s. Brilliantly recreated by Oscar?(r)-winning* director Milos Forman and screenwriter Michael Weller (Ragtime), this vibrant screen version of the Broadway phenomenon ranks "among the best film musicals" (The Hollywood Reporter)! Fresh from the farm, Claude Bukowski (John Savage, The Thin Red Line) arrives in New York City for a date with the Army Induction Board, only to walk into a hippie "happening" inCentral Park and fall in love with the beautiful Shelia (Beverly D'Angelo, American History X). Befriended by the hippies' pacifist leader, Berger (Treat Williams, Mulholland Falls), and urged to crash a formal party in order to declare his love for Shelia, Claude begins an adventure that lands him in jail, Central Park Lake and, finally, in the army. But Berger's final effort to save Claude from Vietnam sets in motion a bizarre twist of fate with shocking consequences. *1975: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; 1984: AmadeusThe Age of Aquarius is brought to life by the filmmaker who made Amadeus a household word. Milos Forman directed this version of James Rado, Gerome Ragni, and Galt MacDermot's landmark musical in 1979 between his Oscar-winning films One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus. With mixed reviews (Gene Siskel named it that year's best film) and lukewarm box-office grosses, the film all but disappeared from the collective consciousness. Yet the film beautifully delivers on its promise to bring the '60s back to life. Hair re-creates a colorful world of counterculture finding an anvil to pound on: the Vietnam War. Forman and his design team allow the film to wash over you, starting at the free-flowing opening in which masses of hippies, police, and even their horses eagerly groove to the familiar beat of "Aquarius." In the best work of his career, Treat Williams makes his leading- man debut as Berger, the leader of the Central Park troop who takes draftee Claude (John Savage) under his wing on his trip through New York City and the apex of what the '60s was. The new recording of the music is quite fine, with Chicago band member Don Dacus's rendition of the title song a highlight. As Berger's pi?ce de r?sistance number says, "I've Got Life"; so does the film, right down to its poignant declaration to "let the sunshine in." --Doug Thomas
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