Funny Girl — 4K 11/23/24

Barbra Streisand’s movie debut takes a slot in the Criterion Collection, and jumps to 4K Ultra HD. Opened up from Broadway and slimmed down to focus on its incandescent star, it persists as a superior musical, alternately funny and touching. Streisand showed can’t-lose intuition when it came to the big decisions: knowing that her emotional singing style would be flattened by lip-sync to a pre-recorded track, the finale partly records a direct performance. Barbra came across as The Real Deal, up close and personal; audiences continue to be riveted by her. On 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray from The Criterion Collection.
11/23/24