Roy Orbison - Black & White Night (DVD & DVD Audio)
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Actor: Bonnie Raitt, J.D. Souther, Jackson Browne, Jennifer Warnes, k.d. langBrand: Image Entertainment
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 64 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-03-08
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Image Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Roy Orbison - Black & White Night (DVD & DVD Audio)
Movie Review: Roy The Boy
Summary: 5 Stars
Elvis, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis come easily to mind when thinking about classic rock `n' roll. And about where you were, and who you were with, and what you were doing when you heard those voices on the radio, on the television, or when you were spinning platters (records, for the younger set, okay, nice expression, right?). The artist under review, Roy Orbison, although clearly a rock legend, and rightly so, does not evoke that same kind of memory for me. Oh sure, I listened to Blue Bayou, Pretty Woman, Running Scared, Claudette, and many of the other songs that are performed on this great black and white concert footage. And backed up by the likes of T-Bone Burnett, who may be the top rhythm guitarist of the age (and who has also gotten well-deserved kudos for his work on Jeff Bridges' Crazy Hearts), Elvis Costello, Tom Waits, and Bruce Springsteen. With vocal backups by k.d. lang and Bonnie Raitt. All who gave energized performances and all who were deeply influenced by Roy's music. That alone makes this worth viewing.
Still, I had this gnawing feeling about Roy's voice after viewing this and why it never really "spoke" to me like the others. Then it came to me, the part I mentioned above about where I was and who I was with and what I was doing when I heard Roy. Enter one teenage friend, Frankie, Frankie from the old neighborhood. Frankie of a thousand stories, Frankie of a thousand treacheries, and, oh ya, Frankie, my bosom friend in high school. See, when Roy was big, big in our working class neighborhood in the early 1960s, we all used to hang around the town pizza parlor. Nothing unusual in that just hanging out having a slice of pizza (no onions, please, in case I get might lucky tonight), some soft drink (which we called tonic in New England in those days but which you called, uh, soda), usually root beer, and, incessantly (and that allowed us to stay since we were "paying " customers with all the rights and dignities that entailed, unless they needed our seats), dropping nickels, dimes and quarters in the jukebox.
Here is the part that might really explain things, though. Frankie has this girl friend (he always had a string of them, that what was cool about him, but this was his main squeeze, his honey). The divine Joanne (his description, I could take or leave her, and I questioned the divine part on more than one occasion). See though Frankie, old double standard, maybe triple standard Frankie, was crazy about her but was always worried, worried to perdition, that she was "seeing" someone else (she wasn't). But sweet old clever "divine" Joanne used that Frankie fear as a wedge. She would always talk (and talk while I was there, just to kind of add to the drama, Frankie's drama) about all the guys that called up bothering her (personally I didn't see it, she was cute for sure and with a nice figure but I wouldn't jump off a bridge if she turned me down, others in those days yes, and gladly, but not her). This would get Frankie steaming (once he actually couldn't eat his pizza slice he was so upset and Frankie, Frankie from the old neighborhood, ALWAYS ate his pizza). Worst, was when old doll, old sweetheart, Joanne would drop coins in the jukebox to play... Roy Robison's "Just Running Scared" over and over. And make Frankie give her good coin, his good coin to boot. It got so bad that old Frankie, when Joanne wasn't around, would play it on his own. With his own money, no less. So, I guess, I just got so sick of hearing that song and that trembling rising crescendo voice that I couldn't see straight. But, you can't blame Roy for that, or shouldn't. Watch this thing. I did and just turned the old volume on the remote down when that song came on. That's the ticket.
Summary of Roy Orbison - Black & White Night (DVD & DVD Audio)
Studio: Image Entertainment Release Date: 02/08/2005Similar DVD Movies
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