Ragtime
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Movie Reviews of Ragtime
Movie Review: Running Time Correction
Summary: 4 Stars
After checking out the DVD against other Online stores carrying the same title, it is evident that the 115 minute running time previously posted by Amazon was a mistake. It's now been corrected and stands at 156 minutes - the original running time. Folks worried about this DVD version being cut by 40 minutes can put their minds at ease. It is the original version.Movie Review: A classic of it's time
Summary: 4 Stars
Ragtime is a period piece very well done for it's time period.
The subject should be seen that these events happened when these types of things were really happening. Would not happen today
Movie Review: Ragtime rocks
Summary: 4 Stars
It captures the spirit of the age and is mostly true to the original book but has by necessity to omit several sub plots. I recommend reading the book first.Movie Review: RAGTIME
Summary: 4 Stars
LOVE IT CAME IN MINT CONDITION. WAS NOT DECEIVING IT WAS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR.Movie Review: Good First Half;Disastrous Second Half
Summary: 3 Stars
Milos Forman's "Ragtime" is a film with many components to recommend that is ultimately betrayed by an ill-advised vigalante tale in it's second half. The film starts out swimmingly showing the rich mosaic of New York life from the upper classes to the lower classes. The film's art direction and costume designs are richly detailed. Randy Newman's score is exquisite. About the only thing I wasn't buying was a ditzy Elizabeth McGovern as some kind of turn-of-the century Helen of Troy. Then we are abruptly slapped in the face with the second half. It starts innocently enough with a black man,Coalhouse Walker(Howard Rollins) having his Model-T desecrated by a group of loutish firemen. Before you know it this act has escalated into Walker seeking reparations through vigilanteism and acts of terrorism. It is a credit to Rollins that we are able to muster a modicum of sympathy for a character whose actions are despicable on the written page. While we're at it James Olson does a commendable job as "Father", a character written as an uptight stooge. This film's politics seem to have fomented not from the politics of the time it is set in but more from the politics of the sixties. Now it just seems dated. The DVD release includes a deleted scene where Evelyn Nesbitt(McGovern) encounters Emma Goldman, radical communist from the turn-of-the-century. It's an interesting scene and would not have seemed out of place in the film's final cut. Also, look close for Samuel L. Jackson as one of Walker's co-horts.