La La Land

This DVD is great quality, plays very well. The film is fantastic- a blend of intimate, serious dialogue with sudden bursts of choreographed dance and songs- from just two people to a crowd, it will take you from a quiet moment to a sudden explosion of pace and action. The film divided people into love and hate camps- but I was honestly blown away by it. I loved the manic, visually dazzling dance numbers juxtaposed against the very realistic conversations between two people falling in love. The director used music, editing pace and silent pauses to perfection. The jewel tones of the settings, the magic of the scenes- this really is a tremendous film which gives you the highs and lows of emotion, without being too slick. The soundtrack is superb, (same writer/director as Whiplash, another great film) and you'll be humming the haunting tunes for weeks. Brilliant acting, heartfelt storyline, visually a feast. Can't really ask for more, can we?

Wonderful film, so much better than I thought it would be. Many people went into this expecting a big fun Mama Mia type film, DO NOT GO IN WITH EXPECTATION or you'll end up as grumpy as all these reviews. Like Whiplash, La La Land is more of a drama film about the road to pursuing your dreams and the trials and tribulations that challenge you along the way. I loved this film because it was so much deeper than I thought, there's so many subtle undertones and directional choices that can be read into. Not to mention, it's beautifully made. The cinematography and directing is seemless, some of the choreography filmed in one take is truly mind boggling. The film had such a heart breaking sense of realism to it despite the extravagant musical numbers, which (as a struggling musician) really resonated with me. Its understandable why people get angry with this film, the hype awards and marketing make it look like a big fun musical dream boat. And for the first 4 minutes it is, but much like the line between dreams and reality the musical numbers gradually tone down in performance and colour as the story develops. So as I said, this isn't Mama Mia (a really great fun musical), it's a drama which uses classic old school musicals as a base to tell its story.

Clever and knowing variation on the STAR IS BORN theme. The story is nothing new, but the songs and presentation are exceptional. It's fashionable to call all this old fashioned, but there's much truth about life here. It can be seen on several levels. It also takes time to build up, and must be seen all the way through. Almost certainly going to be a ‘classic film’ as people look back. It does start to drag slightly as the love affair frays under life pressures. Not helped by that old standby caption – ‘five years later’. Creative use of colours which have a 1990s throwback. Some moments of incredulity, such as the opening number, which has not much relationship to the plot. A good example of a musical that isn’t quite so naïve, and is enjoyable without being slowed down by songs. Hard to define what the film is really about, but it has a shared sense of the joy of the moment, and of ambition. Thankfully, it never shifts into pathos. For that reason, it has the power to be a memorable film.

Rock Hudson ended up being enshrined as an icon of the death bed confession at the Schwulles Museum in Berlin in a bizarre trope of ‘singular masculinity’ which leaves him not only as the man known for rumours that he had an affair with James Dean whilst filming ‘Giant;’ but that he was the most well known actor of the Golden Age of Hollywood to have to turn down parts because he was frightened of being exposed. Ryan Gosling is the one actor who could have made this film. And he did: absolutely make it. And it’s the fact that he didn’t win the Oscar for Best Actor™️ which ‘renders’ the film’s theme of almost dreamy eyed melancholy. He should have won it and it’s a disgrace that he didn’t. He is not the ‘Schwulles-Warden’ - had this film been released in 1957; Rock Hudson could not have given this film the blissful honesty which Gosling gave to it. In an often comedic turn with so many tangents it is the straight down the line honesty which he brings to the film. He makes sense of the nonsensical for you. And he makes the character laugh inside. After watching the film I woke out of a dream a few weeks later where I imagined that Ryan Gosling was actually gay and had his past deleted under Google’s ‘right to be forgotten’ and for me to find him married to Eva Mendes with two children. And it was a sad dream because it was true; probably without the conspiracy to delete his past. It still doesn’t matter who Gosling is. He’s brilliant. He’s an enigma. He can play a charlatan who you can only come to love. And he should become one of the greats. Perhaps, if I think for one moment; and this film hadn’t been canned in 1957-1958; perhaps Paramount Pictures (in those days) would have cast someone like James Garner. But I can’t imagine it. Gosling plays the straight man to Emma Stone’s ‘kind of ditzy on the verge of breakdown’ character beautifully. The man’s brain activated like a politician or any group of individuals who compartmentalise their friends; and where their cranium becomes a rumpus room to laugh at others. Gosling makes the character loveable despite all of that. It is true that Ryan Gosling is married to Eva Mendes and he does have two children. And my weird nightmare after watching this film that he was owned by Google who had deleted his previous gay life was obviously a nonsensical and bizarre dream of the proportions which raided the cellars of Morpheus several nights running. But it was a perfect dream to compliment La-La Land. It gave it that Dorothy awakes feeling at the end of the Wizard of Oz. Even though as a gay man myself I can’t for the life of me understand why the Wizard of Oz is a film of gay iconography. Surely, Judy Garland’s Dorothy is the young girl from Kansas who in fact many girls would dream to meet. The beauty of La-La Land is that it leaves each viewer’s dream open to them. And I hope that it isn’t the last great musical.

i'm not one for going with the hype of a movie, but i had a slow afternoon so thought i would give it a try. Well, it was really good! Afterwards i found out that the opening scene was all shot in one go, so ive been back to watch that a couple of times. It's nice to have such a classy type of movie, that isn't what you think it'll be Well worth the awards it won

La La Land is a hymn to LA and the golden years of Hollywood. The lush cinematography paints it in soft pastel hues, a fantasy city like the 1930's Paris of Rene Clair, in which a young girl can walk home alone at night unmolested, through a Montmartre magically transported to Trump's America. It's in Cinemascope, and needs to be seen in the cinema, as I did a few days ago. There was a palpable frisson of excitement when the curtains parted to reveal the wide screen, and the audience was rapt from that moment on. The film is Emma Stone's triumph. She is wonderful as Mia, the aspiring actress, whose story this is, and like Ginger Rogers before her she rightly won the Best Actress Oscar. That said, it should be noted that La La Land has more plot and less dance than the Astaire and Rogers classics, where the story is the flimsiest of vehicles to carry the viewer from one musical number to the next. La La Land, on the other hand, is a genuinely moving drama with musical interludes. I seem to remember that Ginger Rogers won her Oscar not for any of those great dance classics but for a drama, Kitty Foyle. Like her, Emma Stone is a wonderful actress who can also dance a bit. Her co-star, Ryan Gosling, performs his role of faithful foil adequately enough, but his destiny is to be outshone. Ignore the carpers and see this film. I promise that you will be utterly enchanted..

I have to say that in terms of the musical aspects, La La Land was top notch! However, for me, the plot was slightly disappointing. In a twist of fate a man and a woman meet, and despite declaring that they could never fall in love, they fall in love. 3 seasons later they grow apart and go their separate ways, whilst still inwardly caring for each other. Then Mia (played by Emma Stone) gets a role in a movie and many years later, she is happily married with a daughter. She enters a restaurant with her husband and sees Sebastian and thinks of all the things they could have had together. She then proceeds to leave! There are several touching moments in the movie, however the overall plot is slightly cheesy and rather substandard. However, if you are interested in musicals, this movie may be for you.

good dvd

I love this film. When I first saw the trailer for La La Land, I thought it was set in the 50's or the 60's. Then, when I finally watched it, I realized, it's suppose to feel that way. It's an ode to old cinema. The performances are great and the songs are (for the most part) catchy and get stuck in your head; I'm looking at you City of Stars. The direction is fantastic. The opening number alone should make you really appreciate movies, especially the old feeling of classic musicals and the like. The "one-shot" technique that brings us from the amazing "Cinemascope" logo to the arresting number, to Ryan and Emma in their vehicles in this jam. It's just fantastic. So much of this film is packed with so much love you can tell this from just watching. The 4K and HDR? Well, I haven't seen the Bluray version of the film, however, the HDR was vastly superior to when I first saw the film. The colors pop and burst from every number and visually arresting image that passes your set. I watched it with my mother and she, who "can't see a difference" between her mid 2010 low end 1080p DYNEX and my Sony X930D quality, said "the colours are so bright and bold." Yes mum, they are. Super glad this sweeped at the Oscars, and even more so that Moonlight won. Alas, they got the recognition they both deserve.

Un dvd che tutti gli amanti del cinema devono avere! Film stupendo. Per chi ha dei pregiudizi visto che si tratta di un musical il consiglio è di superare tali limiti mentali. In realtà non è il classico musical cantato da persone gioiose che cantano e ballano per tutto il tempo ma semplicemente ogni tanto c'è qualche canzone, per il resto è recitato. Inoltre le canzoni sono bellissime e non potrete non innamorarvene, anzi vi resteranno impresse a distanza di mesi. La trama del film è molto interessante, il film è egregiamente interpretato, vedrete una bellissima fotografia per tutto il film e bellissimi costumi. Consiglio di comprare quest'edizione del DVD perchè ne vale molto la pena avere anche il CD con le colonne sonore.

ブルーレイの読みこみに5分くらいかかりますが無事再生できました♪ 日本盤には英語の字幕がなさそうだったのでこちらを購入しました。 映画のシーンの曲の部分だけを集めた特典もとても嬉しいです。

Good movie

Sicuramente l'alto numero di nomination all'oscar ha alzato le aspettative per un film tutto sommato molto semplice, almeno a prima vista, creando diversi malumori tra il pubblico. Ma questo film va oltre la semplice storiella raccontata: é un omaggio al musical, al sogno, a Los Angeles, alle arti e al richiamo delle stesse, a hollywood, a un modo di fare cinema ormai scomparso, all'amore per la vita e per l'anima sognatrice che si nasconde in ognuno di noi. Se siete tra quelli che odiano Los Angeles o il cinema hollywoodiano, lasciate perdere. Altrimenti perdetevi nel sogno fantasticamente fotografato di una Los Angeles, anzi, di LA La Land..