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West Side Story

Digital Restoration

Free on the outdoor screen!

 

featuring

Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris,

“When you’re a Jet, you’re a Jet all the way . . .” In West Side Story, the gang’s all here: the Jets and their neighborhood nemeses the Sharks in the back alleys of late-fifties NYC. They’re finger-snappin’ tough and rowdy—JDs down to their white Ts and leather. And, sure, the beatings are backed by beats composed by Leonard Bernstein, and when they rumble, the stompin’ is to the so-cool choreography of Jerome Robbins. But the West Side is the domain of youth struggling with a “social disease” that’s part poverty, part parents, and part passion. West Side Story is the dizzying rush of youth that knows no bounds.

Steve Seid
FILM DETAILS 
Screenwriter
  • Ernest Lehman
Based On
  • the musical by Leonard Bernstein and book by Arthur Laurents. Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, conceived and directed by Jerome Robbins.

Cinematographer
  • Daniel L. Fapp
Print Info
  • Color
  • ’Scope, Digital file
  • 155 mins
Source
  • Park Circus
Additional Info
  • Music conducted by Johnny Green; Choreographed by Jerome Robbins
CINEFILES

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The directors -- excerpt (book excerpt), Allworth Press, Robert J. Emery, 2002

West Side story (program note), Cinematheque Ontario/a division of Toronto International Film Festival Group, 2001

A West Side story (article), Palm Springs International Film Festival, Walter Mirisch, 1991

30th anniversary screening: West Side Story (program note), Palm Springs International Film Festival, 1991

West Side story (program note), Los Angeles International Film Exposition, 1982

The Directors Guild of America presents a retrospective showing of eight films by Robert Wise (program), Directors Guild of America, 1966

Stage and screen : Director reflects on Gotham films (article), Oakland Tribune, Theresa Loeb Cone, 1961

Explosion on the West Side (article)

America on parade: West Side story (program note), Wadsworth Atheneum, Diana Prince

West Side story (article)

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