The Cotton Club
by Francis Ford Coppola
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Actor: Bob Hoskins, Diane Lane, Gregory Hines, Lonette McKee, Richard GereDirector: Francis Ford Coppola
Brand: Sony
Writer: Francis Ford Coppola
Producer: Barrie M. Osborne
Producer: Dyson Lovell
Producer: Fred Roos
Writer: Jim Haskins
Writer: Mario Puzo
Writer: William Kennedy
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 127 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-07-10
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of The Cotton Club
Movie Review: Busting at the seams with talent and panache
Summary: 5 Stars
There are not enough superlatives for this movie. It brims with style, class, talent and low-down, no-good scum. There are the heartless ones trying to stay at the top of the dog heap juxtaposed against the ones with heart selling their souls to crawl higher on the heap.
Richard Gere and Diane Lane are young, star-crossed, and multi-talented. Gere does his own cornet solos and Lane sings a gravelly "Ain't I Blue" while carrying a torch for Dixie Dwyer (Gere) right before her mobster boyfriend's deadly jealous eyes. Gere and Lane hate each other for their impossible love: they dance a slapping fight on the dance floor of the club while other dancers imitate their brawl, believing it to be a new dance step. This is among the many classic moments not to be missed.
A sub-theme of segregation is interwoven with stunning tap numbers and loaded songs, showing the irony and snobbery of a famous club that allowed only black people to sing, dance, and hoof it on stage while not allowing them entry via the front door as patrons. (See The Cotton Club's own Website for more history.)
At times, although the rivalry and bloodshed was riveting (I abhor gratuitous violence in movies but this one could not be told without depicting the violence of the era) there were moments when I wished we could just cut to the stage for an entire performance--instead of seeing snatches cut, albeit skillfully, into the mob and romance scenes. The song and dance numbers were sensational; it left me longing to transport myself back to the hey day of The Cotton Club for a year's worth of stellar entertainment.
My one disappointment was Cab Calloway. The actor chosen for the role certainly had the energy and crazy spontaneity of the real Cab, but not near the voice. It was like hearing a lukewarm sound coming out of a powerhouse body.
I spent years not realizing that Richard Gere is a very talented man, not just an actor. After seeing him in Chicago we found him ballroom dancing in Shall We Dance. A chance look at Laurence Fishburne's bio at the end of Tuskegee Airmen led us to The Cotton Club and we pounced when we saw Gere in the cast line-up. I've gone from feeling so-so about Richard Gere to wishing he would make more movies of this ilk.
Summary of The Cotton Club
Where crime lords rub elbows with the rich and famous! Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 06/23/2009 Starring: Diane Lane Nicholas Cage Run time: 129 minutes Rating: R Director: Francis Ford CoppolaSimilar DVD Movies
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