Bird
Screening on Film
Directed by Clint Eastwood.
With Forest Whitaker, Diane Venora.
US, 1988, 35mm, color, 160 min.
With Forest Whitaker, Diane Venora.
US, 1988, 35mm, color, 160 min.
Eastwood’s lifelong love affair with jazz found its most powerful expression in this stunning biopic on the legendary bebop musician Charlie Parker. Based on the memoirs of Parker’s widow Chan, Bird focuses on the final chapter in Parker’s too-brief life illuminating both the nature of his artistic genius and his singularly unremorseful lifestyle.
