Lady Sings the Blues stars Diana Ross as the incredible singer, Billie Holiday, and arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of Paramount and includes a featurette and a set of deleted scenes.
Lady Sings the Blues
(1972)
Genre(s): Drama, Biography, Music
Paramount| R – 143 min. – $17.99 | February 23, 2021
Date Published: 03/03/2021 | Author: The Movieman
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Paramount provided me with a free copy of the Blu-ray I reviewed in this Blog Post.
The opinions I share are my own.
PLOT SYNOPSIS |
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Diana Ross portrays legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday in this biographical drama. Beginning with Holiday’s traumatic youth, the film depicts her early attempts at a singing career and her eventual rise to stardom, as well as her difficult relationship with Louis McKay (BILLY DEE WILLIAMS), her boyfriend and manager. Casting a shadow over even Holiday’s brightest moments is the vocalist’s severe drug addiction, which threatens to end both her career and her life. |
SPECIAL FEATURES – 3/5 |
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This release comes with an Audio Commentary by Executive Producer Berry Gordy, Director Sidney Furie and Artist Manager Shelly Berger; Behind the Blues: Lady Sings the Blues (23:06) making-of featurette; and last some Deleted Scenes (21:03). |
VIDEO – 4¼/5 |
| Paramount releases Lady Sings the Blues onto, well, Blu-ray, where it’s presented with a 2.35 widescreen aspect ratio and given a 1080p high-definition transfer. For the most part the picture is pleasant in appearance. Detail is relatively sharp and although I did detect some minor pixilation, it’s still a fine transfer going on nearly 50 years old. |
AUDIO – 3¾/5 |
| The disc features a solid Dolby TrueHD 5.1 track that excels mostly with the music-centric scenes but dialogue still comes across fairly well but the depth is on the limited side with the rear channels barely getting much usage in the non-musical moments, but even then it’s nothing amazing. |
Check out some more 1080p screen caps by going to page 2. Please note, these do contain spoilers.