Funny Face - 50th Anniversary Edition

[Dennis Kuijper]

Paramount Home Entertainment have announced the Region 1 DVD release of Funny Face (50th Anniversary Edition) on 2nd October 2007. This filmed version of the 1927 George Gershwin Broadway musical Funny Face utilizes the play's original star, Fred Astaire, and several of the original tunes, then goes merrily off on its own. Astaire is cast as as fashion photographer Dick Avery (a character based on Richard Avedon, the film's "visual consultant"), who is sent out by his female boss Maggie Prescott (Kay Thompson) to find a "new face". It doesn't take Dick long to discover Jo (Audrey Hepburn, who does her own singing), an owlish Greenwich Village bookstore clerk. Acting as Pygmalion to Jo's Galatea, Dick whisks the wide-eyed girl off to Paris and transforms her into the fashion world's hottest model. Along the way, he falls in love with Jo, and works overtime to wean her away from such phony-baloney intellectuals as Professor Emile Flostre (Michel Auclair).

The Gershwin tunes include the title song, "S'wonderful", "How Long Has This Been Going On" and "He Loves and She Loves"; among the newer numbers is Kay Thompson's energetic opener "Think Pink". For years available only in washed-out, flat prints, Funny Face was eventually restored to its full Technicolor and VistaVision glory.

Features include:

• English DD5.1 and Mono
• The Fashion Designer and His Muse
• Parisian Dreams
• Paramount in the 50's - Retrospective Featurette (Used on previous DVD)
• Photo Gallery
• Theatrical Trailer

Bron: Dvd-Times

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[bureaulamp]

De nieuwe extra's (het zijn er twee) zijn niet echt de moeite waard. De ene gaat over Hubert de Givenchy, die de kleding voor Audrey Hepburn in de film maakte, en deze docu is redelijk interessant. De tweede gaat over Funny Face en Parijs, en die is volkomen bespottelijk. Twee malloten spreken louter in superlatieven over het geniale gebruik van lokaties in parijs, zelfs over de scenes die in de Paramount studio's in de VS zijn gefilmd... Maar de film zelf ziet er veel beter uit dan op de oude disc, en bij DVDpacific wordt hij bijna gratis weggegeven, zo goedkoop. Dus al met al zeer de moeite waard.