Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola
Stars: Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, Diane Lane
Language: English | Subtitles: English, Spanish (embed)
Country: Usa | Imdb Info | Ar: 1.85:1 | Brrip Encore
Description: Meet the jazz musicians, dancers, owner, and guests (like gangster Dutch Schultz) of The Cotton Club in 1928-1930s Harlem.
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4.08GB | 138:55mins | 1024×554 | mkv | English | Sub: English, Spanish
https://tezfiles.com/file/060ae6be72f0a/The.Cotton.Club.1984.mkv
Flop. Prohibition/gangster style context rather than top of the Jazz masters of the era, Even so, Joe Dallessandro as Lucky Luciano (the gangster)? Andy, bring in the cops! Larry Marshall as Cab Calloway? Go straight to the Blues Brothers/1980 for the real thing. Now in the real Cotton Club frequented folks the likes of Fletcher Henderson (Benny Goodman’s arranger, inspiration to Sun Ra neo-swing, Ellington, Armstrong, Basie, Gershwin, Berlin, you name it. Who cares about the gangsters? But if you do think of it with James Cagney, he passed 1986.
…having said that Cagney’s last film Ragtime (1981) by Miloš Forman (w/Elisabeth McGovern/Debby Allen/a young Fran Drescher,, Randy Newman music), would be nice to upload.
Please consider the Encore Cut of this underrated gem. It’s one of the few times Coppola’s revisionist edits actually improve the film. The unevenness in the theatrical version is softened, and there’s more music, more Gregory Hines, and less Richard Gere.
It’s true — Coppola’s tinkering is usually ill-advised (One from the Heart and ‘Twixt are prime examples) but Cotton Club is the exception.
Outbursts of ruthless violence and tap dancing kept me exhilarated throughout this frustratingly uneven and typically grandiose Zoetrope spectacle. Wish I’d seen it on the big screen. Underrated Coppola for sure.