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West Side Story (1961)
Driving by their deep love for each other, a couple, Maria and Tony, from two contradicted families that hate each other and always fight with each other, make their mind to convince them to end that war and contradiction, but in doing so, incidents come to climax, as they shocked by the violent results of their works.
1 April 1906, Radom, Mazowieckie, Poland
4 January 1940, Jacksboro, Texas, USA
24 April 1936, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
November 6, 1936 in New York City, New York, USA
2 September 1941, New York City, New York, USA
2 January 1939, New York City, New York, USA
30 December 1934, Los Angeles, California, USA
5 April 1939, London, England, UK
16 September 1934, Norwood, Ohio, USA
January 27, 2014
Ten well-deserved Oscars -- plus a special award for Jerome Robbins's dynamic choreography -- adorned this electrifying and moving version of the magnificent Leonard Bernstein/Stephen Sondheim musical.August 04, 2012
[VIDEO ESSAY] Indisputably the greatest musical ever made, "West Side Story" (1961) has sadly proven socially timeless regarding America's eternally troubled immigrant experience.November 16, 2011
Special mention, though, should go to Boris Leven's neo-expressionist production design and Daniel L Fapp's forceful cinematography: the crooked angles, pointed shadows and great swashes of red all heighten the mood of rabid fury.February 22, 2012
You have to admire the way every aspect of the film works toward the emotional impact.February 09, 2007
Decent 1961 adaptation of the Bernstein-Robbins musical, if you can handle Richard Beymer and Natalie Wood in the leads.February 20, 2013
West Side Story is a beautifully-mounted, impressive, emotion-ridden and violent musical which, in its stark approach to a raging social problem and realism of unfoldment, may set a pattern for future musical presentations.January 26, 2006
How does the film -- which won ten Oscars on its 1961 release -- stand up now? Very well indeed.February 18, 2009
Unhappily, the film shares a serious flaw in the essential conception of the show; both are founded on a phony literary analogy and on some potentially vicious pseudo-sociology.August 24, 2013
for all of its silliness for today, is still an epic filmDecember 29, 2011
West Side Story remains one of the best musicals of all-time.March 02, 2015
Natalie Wood, who was made a hit in the Kazan-Inge production of Splendor In the Grass and is the most promising young star of today, gives a fine dramatic performance.April 22, 2012
Even though I had to play it for my high school choir, I was never a fan of the music. Everything else - the cinematography, choreography and story are all pretty stellar.