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	Ragtime (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ragtime is a style of music; see: ragtime.
		Ragtime (film) a 1981 film based on the novel.
		Ragtime (musical) a 1998 musical play based on the novel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ragtime_(disambiguation) (100 words)

	Ragtime (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ragtime is a 1981 motion picture based on the historical novel Ragtime by E.
		The action takes place in and around New York City in the 1900s, and includes fictionalized references to actual people and events of the time.
		He was ill during the shooting of the feature.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ragtime_(film) (308 words)

	Ragtime (1981)
		Nesbit was the center of the infamous (and, in the film, the very compelling) Thaw-White murder case, in which her mentally unstable millionare husband Harry K. Thaw (Robert Joy) murdered her lover, the famed architect Stanford White (Norman Mailer).
		Ragtime appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 2.35:1 on this single-sided, double-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
		Ragtime examines society in the early 20th century with a lively tale.
	www.dvdmg.com /ragtime.shtml (1986 words)

	Ragtime
		Ragtime was the key symbolic element, because the development of ragtime music symbolized the changes of the era, and the symphonic elements of the plot reinforced the structure of a good rag.
		The resulting film is 155 minutes long, and by the time it is over you will be wondering whatever happened to the characters you originally thought to be the focus of the film, back when the film started and you were much younger.
		I found Ragtime a little long, and confusing in the first act, but with many rewards, not the least of which was the great look of the film, and the Grammy nominated sound track.
	www.fakes.net /ragtime.htm (2824 words)

	U-Press Telegram - STAGE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		You can argue that novel or film was the best way to tell Doctorow's complicated fable of the American historical experience, a story that involves the rise of fl America, the huge influx of eager immigrants from Europe and the lifestyles of the rich and secure white upper crust.
		But with a name like "Ragtime," the story cried out to be a musical, filled with the syncopated rhythms of the music that took the country by storm in the 1900s and soon turned into jazz.
		All this historical detail seemed overwhelming in the film version of this story, but in a musical, suggestion is part of the art, and the essential story of the three sets of characters, a story of love, struggle and even redemption, is never buried by historical detail.
	u.presstelegram.com /Stories/0,1413,218~24216~2724510,00.html (823 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: Ragtime
		Ragtime presumes to weave together a handful of overlapping stories — with a little bit of fact and a lot of fiction — in and around New York City during the second decade of 20th Century, just prior to the outbreak of The Great War.
		The film begins with the murder of the famous, philandering architect Stanford White (a cameo by Norman Mailer) by the enraged husband of dimwitted model Evelyn Nesbit (Elizabeth McGovern).
		Much of the first 90 minutes is aimless, and when Coalhouse's crusade begins, the film narrows considerably (Forman admits in the on-disc commentary that this storyline motivated his directing of the film).
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/r/ragtime.q.shtml (639 words)

	'Perfessor' Bill Edwards' Guide To Silent Movie Music
		Some studios continued to make silent films regularly over the next three years, using up their remaining film stock, but by 1930 most of the theaters in country had either converted to sound or went out of business.
		Some went on to play or compose in either film or other venues, but the timing coinciding with the world-wide economic downslide was simply cruel to the majority of these people who feel they had outlived their usefulness.
		The most successful silent film of the last 50 years was the Mel Brooks comedy Silent Movie, in which the intentional irony is that the only word spoken in the film comes from the lips of famed mime Marcel Marceau.
	www.perfessorbill.com /sources6.shtml (4993 words)

	The American Experience \| America 1900 \| The Film & More
		Ragtime, without question, came from what we now call the "underground", underclass young itinerant fl male musicians, beginning in the Middle West probably very soon after emancipation, playing pianos where they had been limited before to playing more primitive instruments, the most sophisticated being the banjo, which had a great influence on ragtime.
		Ragtime is insidious." Now meanwhile you have all of these wonderful musicians, mostly fl, but a few whites who are now doing exactly the same thing, in the same style, beginning to publish.
		Every kind of popular music began to be called ragtime and, by the way, when you read in the trade journals and the few serious musical magazines of the time that had anything to say about it, when they talk about ragtime they're talking about songs.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/1900/filmmore/reference/interview/morath_ragtimemusic.html (889 words)

	Ragtime (1981) - @forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Films that tend to impress me most often are the big, sprawling costume-filled, art-directed to the hilt productions.
		She represents both the old ways of thinking (she defers to her husband on many subjects and asks his permission to ask questions) and the modern woman (by being independent and curious and being kind fl people in a time when it wasn't such a good idea...).
		She was Oscar nominated, and is great, but sort of falls out of the film for an hour...James Cagney's cameo is a satisfying nod to the golden years.
	www.atforumz.com /showthread.php?t=268667 (552 words)

	The ragtime threat (Seattle Weekly)
		As early as the turn of the century, ragtime music was seen as the cause of everything from race riots to domestic violence to general dissatisfaction with life.
		It wasn't an environment that celebrated joyful race mixing, and ragtime was a symbol for the influence of African American culture in the United States— especially for racist whites.
		Ragtime, it was felt, was vulgar; its lyrics spoke with disdain about monogamous relationships and regular jobs.
	www.seattleweekly.com /music/9938/music-schloss.php (926 words)

	Ragtime
		There's little to few of the analog or digital blemishes that you tend to see in these older films (the lone exception is the deleted scene which is clearly from an editing workprint for the film).
		The featurette discusses everything from Doctorow's ideas to adapting the film (he wanted to do them as ten separate stories almost as a mini-series), the casting of the brilliant Howard Rollins and how Forman convinced James Cagney to come out of retirement for his last screen role.
		A marvelous film full of strong performances, Forman's ambitious production was nominated (but failed to win) for 8 Academy Awards including a nomination for Randy Newman's terrific score.
	www.mediascreen.com /r/ragtime.htm (469 words)

	Newman: Ragtime (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Ragtime came during the effective transition between his twin careers - during the few years that followed, he went from having a couple of years between his solo albums to doing a couple a decade (at best); and from doing a couple of scores a decade to doing one or two a year.
		And Ragtime is one of the top ten scores of the previous decade.
		Ragtime is a rare gem of a score, representing a perfect marriage of film and composer, and deserved more than the two Oscar nominations it got Newman (little did he suspect he would receive another sixteen before winning one).
	www.moviewave.net /titles/ragtime.html (491 words)

	Ragtime - Randy Newman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		There are films that a certain composer was born to score and I think it would be fair to list Ragtime and Randy Newman as one of them.
		The setting and period of the film - turn of the century America - is almost exactly the sound that Newman created on his most famous song albums.
		However, the film is considerably more dramatic than requiring of only jaunty ragtime and Newman here - as he has done since many times - proves that he's one of the most adept dramatic composers working in film today.
	www.soundtrack-express.com /osts/ragtime.htm (464 words)

	Randy Newman - song writer and film composer
		In this year's Academy Awards, he was nominated for the 9th time in the best score category for "Mosters, Inc." losing out to Howard Shore's "The Fellowship of the Ring", but won the best song category for the song "If I didn't have you" used in "Monsters, Inc.".
		His style as a film composer is generally quite light, perhaps due in part to the significant number of family, comedy and children's titles he has done.
		Except in a few short places the music itself is not strictly Ragtime but uses a variety of period music styles from late 19th century music hall through to early Jazz.
	www.mfiles.co.uk /composers/Randy-Newman.htm (704 words)

	Amazon.com: Ragtime - The Musical (1998 Original Broadway Cast): Music: Stephen Flaherty,Lynn Ahrens,Audra ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The epic sweep of Ragtime is captured in its opening prologue, a nine-minute kaleidoscope of fictional characters mingling with historical figures from the early 20th century as originally captured in E.L. Doctorow's sprawling novel.
		When "Ragtime" first was released with the Toronto in-progress work, I dutifully purchased it, kinda listened to a bit of it, and then put it on the shelf.
		While Ragtime is a beautiful sprawling epic on stage and on cd, The Lion King is a Stunning event both visually, emotionally and musically.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000064XS?v=glance (1474 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Ragtime
		There's a brief, quiet, powerful moment near the film's end in which he questions God for filling his heart with rage and leading him to that point in his life, and the sheer dignity of his performance in the scene is astounding.
		Ragtime the novel is a classic; Ragtime the film is a near-classic.
		Despite the film's minor flaws, the shortcomings of the extras, and the audio problems, this DVD is without question worthy of purchase.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/ragtime.php (2107 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Ragtime (xhtml) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Instead of telling dozens of stories, his film is mostly concerned with the story of Coalhouse Walker, Jr., a fl piano player who insists that justice be done after he is insulted by some yahoo volunteer firemen.
		A film faithful to the book would have had people walking in and out of each other's lives in an astonishing series of coincidences.
		RAGTIME is a loving, beautifully mounted, graceful film that creates its characters with great clarity.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19810101/REVIEWS/101010359/1023 (734 words)

	The DVD Maniacs - Forum - Ragtime (1981)
		Knowing little about the film and judging only by outward appearance, I thought it was going to be a light period drama not too far removed from THE GREAT GATSBY or something along those lines.
		His last lines in the movie are probably the coldest words I've ever heard him speak and yet I think the enjoyment I got out of watching him came from seeing an old JC throw his hat in the acting ring once again.
		It was his last film, and I'll never forget him at the Oscars being wheeled in, that was a very emotional moment.
	www.dvdmaniacs.net /forums/printthread.php?t=11902 (485 words)

	Artists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In 2000, the series was expanded into the rest of the year, with film programs once monthly at the Chautauqua Community Center.
		In his Ragtime presentation at Piano Celebration at Metro State, Hank charts the evolution of ragtime, America's first original music.
		In Hank's silent film music presentation, "Playing for Silent Movies - A Lost Art Form," he explains how it was done int he old days and demonstrates the techniques that he uses.
	www.mscd.edu /~music/pianocelebration/PianoCelebration04/troy.htm (326 words)

	Ragtime (1981): James Cagney, Mary Steenburgen, James Olson, Brad Dourif - PopMatters Film Review
		So, that was the emotional hook for me." In the film, Coalhouse takes matters into his own hands after a gang of racist firefighters destroys his car and no one with the power to help him will even give him a second look.
		The documentary, "Remembering Ragtime," is as disappointing as the commentary, with half of it taken up with the repeated Cagney material, and the other half with talk of sets and casting -- at this point, though, little else is expected.
		Though Ragtime is a wonderful film with much to say about U.S. history, Forman gives no indication on the DVD beyond a brief comparison between Coalhouse's experiences to his own, growing up under communism in Czechoslovakia, as to his intentions for the film.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/r/ragtime-1981-dvd.shtml (1001 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| Irving Berlin on Film (2)
		The film is something of a curiosity, although its charms are distinctly limited.
		The color is extremely good for such an early film, and we are treated to both a fashion show and the Mardi Gras (shown as an all-white affair), both predictably ridiculous.
		Ragtime was passé by the time Berlin started writing songs, but many of his early songs have a rhythmic, herky-jerky energy that in effect re-creates the excitement of rag.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /30/irvingberlin2.html (2665 words)

	Stage Door - for all the Live Theatre news in SW Ontario&Toronto
		Ragtime is currently taught in secondary schools, colleges and universities throughout Canada, the United States and Western Europe, as part of the curriculum for numerous Contemporary American Literature and American Studies programs.
		At the heart of Ragtime is, however, the story of three remarkable families—one upper-middle class, white Anglo-Saxon Protestant, one socialist immigrant Jewish, and one Harlem Black—whose lives the come dramatically intertwined with one another and with the historical characters and events of the period.
		As described by director Frank Galati, Ragtime is "an enormously complicated historical, political, social and artistic panorama" that will enable audiences to examine "the origins of the twentieth century from the perspective of the last decade of the twentieth century." Adds Garth Drabinsky, "Ragtime’s commentary on the human condition is timeless.
	www.stage-door.org /reviews/ragtime.html (2717 words)

	DVD Savant Review: Ragtime
		It is by far Dino DeLaurentiis' most prestigious film - scene after scene is filled with hundreds of beautifully costumed extras at parties, political gatherings and in the Jewish neighborhood of the lower East side.
		The film's time frame is a bit confused as the Thaw-White affair happened in 1906 and the first Ford Model T appeared two years later.
		His Coalhouse Walker is the center of the film and showcases the theme of fl rights without grandstanding or claiming to personally embody the spirit of fl America.
	www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s1418rag.html (1660 words)

	Alexander's Ragtime Band: Fox Studio Classics (1938)
		The film is so absurd, silly and tedious that I couldn’t have cared less about any of its participants.
		Mainly the film exists for its slew of musical production numbers, but the filmmakers try to throw out a story, and the generic love interest is the best they can do.
		Alexander’s Ragtime Band appears in an aspect ratio of 1.33:1 on this single-sided, double-layered DVD; due to those dimensions, the image has not been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
	www.dvdmg.com /alexandersragtimeband.shtml (1955 words)

	Ragtime Film Review - Time Out Film
		EL Doctorow's overrated bestseller, a panoramic epic of the melting-pot America of 1906, made its way to the screen shorn of Doctorow's central conceit, that his 'Ordinary People' warrant equal time alongside major historical figures: Henry Ford, J Pierpont Morgan, Emma Goldman, Harry Houdini, all are written out of the script.
		Forman nevertheless handles the diverse strands of the complicated plot well enough to suggest that the film's central weakness - fl pianist Coalhouse Walker's attempt to obtain satisfaction for the racially-motivated vandalism of his shining new car - is inherent in the novel.
		Good performances, though, from Cagney as the persuasively authoritative police chief Waldo, and (especially) James Olson, a pillar of quiet Waspish dignity as the self-appointed conscience interceding between the massing police and the militant Coalhouse.
	www.timeout.com /film/76361.html (212 words)

	Northern Virginia Ragtime Society
		But, Ragtime as we know it today, first blossomed in the late 1890s, the creation of itinerant pianists--most of whom were fl--and who lived and traveled throughout the Mississippi Valley.
		Simply stated, Ragtime is a type of music in which a syncopated melody line is played against a straight or routine accompaniment.
		In October 1980, The Northern Virginia Ragtime Society, which was then one of only two organizations in the United States dedicated to the promotion and preservation of classic ragtime and related music, requested Congressman Romano L. Mazzoli [D] of Louisville, KY to assist the effort to revive an interest in issuing the Joplin Stamp.
	www.nvrs.org /aboutragtime.htm (1305 words)

	MJ Forums -> Ragtime (1981, Milos Forman)
		Basically his story is one of vengeance, as his model T Ford is damaged and in trying to get retribution he loses his wife so goes on a crusade with several others to get back at those who he felt did him wrong.
		Another one of what I see to be the film's weaknesses is how it abandons the previous story almost completely in favor of the Coalhouse Walker storyline.
		And that initial impulse is not so much for his own pride I don't think, but not wanting to bring a child into that kind of world, not swallowing his pride so his son and his son's son won't have to swallow theirs.
	www.moviejustice.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=7475 (914 words)

	Alexander’s Ragtime Band - Music from the Movies
		His back catalogue, however, was already both large and famous enough to persuade Twentieth Century Fox to mount a spectacular musical tribute devoted entirely to his work and based upon a storyline suggested by the composer himself.
		There is some new material that Berlin wrote specially for the film, notably the poignant love song ‘Now It Can Be Told’, which Ameche delivers in an unsuccessful attempt to get the girl.
		But the highpoint of both the film and CD has to be the amazing Ethel Merman, who belts out the big production numbers on the fictional band’s post-war European tour.
	www.musicfromthemovies.com /review.asp?ID=4792 (591 words)

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