Yentl
First screened in August 2016
Director: Barbra Streisand. Cast: Barbra Streisand, Mandy Patinkin, Amy Irving, Nehemiah Persoff, Steven Hill, David De Keyser, Ruth Goring, Allan Corduner, Bernard Spear, Miriam Margolyes. Screenplay: Jack Rosenthal and Barbra Streisand (based on the story "Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy" by Isaac Bashevis Singer).

 Twitter Capsule: As a visual experience, it ravishes. As story, it's more errant but goes to complicated places. Only as a musical is it flat.

VOR: ④  Nothing if not ambitious, with the courage of visual, generic, and cultural convictions, even when oddly executed. Exciting to see the movies revive such tenaciously Jewish storytelling.


Photo © 1983 MGM/United Artists

Not yet reviewed in full. Grade: B

Academy Award Nominations and Winners:
Best Supporting Actress: Amy Irving
Best Art Direction: Roy Walker; Leslie Tomkins and Tessa Davies
★Best Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Adaptation Score: Michel Legrand, Alan Bergman, and Marilyn Bergman
Best Original Song: "Papa, Can You Hear Me?"
Best Original Song: "The Way He Makes Me Feel"

Golden Globe Nominations and Winners:
★Best Picture (Musical/Comedy)
★Best Director: Barbra Streisand
Best Actress (Musical/Comedy): Barbra Streisand
Best Actor (Musical/Comedy): Mandy Patinkin
Best Original Score: Michel Legrand, Alan Bergman, and Marilyn Bergman
Best Original Song: "The Way He Makes Me Feel"
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