Leonard Bernstein doc goes straight to Netflix
mainBradley Cooper’s biodoc on the life of Leonard Bernstein will start shooting in April.
It is billed as a Netflix Original with Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg listed as co-producers.
Comments
MOST READ TODAY:
-
Orchestras
The maestro’s son is also rising
From my latest monthly essay in The Critic…
-
Orchestras
Franz Welser-Möst, recovering, withdraws from Beethoven cycle
The Cleveland music director, who has received successful…
-
News
Two violin dealers pull pistols at dawn
The lucrative, secretive business of buying and selling…
-
RIP
Famed English soprano dies of brain tumour
We are saddened to report the death, aged…
Good. I will watch. But I don’t want something of 90mn I want something long in several parts like The last waltz or SanPa the best documentary I saw on Netflix.
Big fan of ANY high-quality and high-visible production for classical music. Its only sad I’m surprised this is happening at all.
Any musicologist in the credits? Ron Howard’s Pavarotti biopic was pretty good.
Perhaps, to avoid disappointing people in the way I was, the title should say “LB doc *WILL* go straight to N/Flix”.
The way SD has phrased it got my hopes up and it sounded like it was ready for distribution.
To the makers of this film, if not too late, I hope you add things not already commonly know, such as how Lee Konitz and Bernstein were friends, Konitz being the specific jazz influence for West Side Story, including how Lenny told Lee the song, “Cool”, was inspired by him.
http://www.azuremilesrecords.com/leeandleonardkonitzfiguresinbernsteingswestsidestory.html
http://www.azuremilesrecords.com/eastwestsidestoryravishankarandleonardbernstein.html
It is not going to be either “doc” or “biodoc”. The recent movie about Pavarotti directed by Ron Howard could be called a “doc”umentary. With Bradley Cooper as Bernstein and Carey Mulligan as his wife, this future movie entitled “Maestro” will definitely be a “docudrama” or possibly “biopic” – a very different animal.
Yes — biodoc is a new term, and subject perhaps to misinterpretation. It has been previewed as a docudrama on film/TV sites.
As someone who got to sing in the Ravinia Production of his Mass for his centennial twice with Maestro Alsop I am very excited!
We will watch it on the OK dot ru network, which is free.
The only thing which sounds remotely promising about this is Bradley Cooper!!
Not a fan. The remotely promising thing to me was the subject.
Bio doc.
So it’s not a *bio pic* with an actor playing Bernstein, right?
It’s a drama. Don’t any of you people know IMDb?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5535276/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_3
Wrong. If it is based on a real person’s life story or a substantial part of it, then it can be called a “biopic” indeed. But with actors playing those roles it is certainly not a “doc”.
Ten years ago I would have been looking forward to this. Now I just ask myself “in what cringe-inducing way will they insert wokism into it.” But there are always surprises…
Bernstein practically invented wokery. Read your Tom Wolfe.
To whome did Caruso say if you were in Opera,I would be out of a job…this in 1932 (?)
Kwartin,Sirota,Kussavitzki ?
Wrong actor. Should have Oscar Isaac playing Lenny.