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Purple Rain (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The movie is tied in to the album of the same name, which spawned three chart-topping singles: the opening number "Let's Go Crazy", "Purple Rain", and "When Doves Cry." Much of the movie's cinematography, by Donald Thorin, is closer to that of 1980s music videos than conventional film. Purple Rain is a 1984 movie directed by Albert Magnoli and written by Prince and William Blinn. Prince plays "The Kid", an aspiring Minneapolis musician with a difficult home life. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Purple_Rain_(movie)   (278 words)

Encyclopedia: Rain (1932 movie) Rain is a 1932 film directed by Lewis Milestone. Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. The film stars Joan Crawford as a temptress and Walter Huston as a conflicted missionary whose morals start decaying. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Rain-%281932-movie%29   (281 words)

DVD Verdict Review - Purple Rain: 20th Anniversary Edition Purple Rain is the first true "rock musical"—a film in which the music is inspired by, and serves to advance, the plot and theme of the film (as with a traditional musical, e.g. And in the case of Purple Rain, the answer is a resounding "yes." Flaws notwithstanding, this 20th Anniversary set is a quality release for a significant film. Purple Rain was also the first film to take the working concepts and styles of the then-new music video field onto the big screen. www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/purplerain.php   (4146 words)

Review Purple Rain: 20th Edition DVD Purple Rain is one of those films that goes a long way to defining its generation. The new 20th anniversary DVD provides the film -- at last -- in widescreen format, and the two-disc set includes a commentary by the director, producer and cinematographer, as well as terrific documentaries about the Minneapolis music scene, the making of the movie, and the movie's impact on pop culture. The Revolution, as Prince's band is called in the film, is set against the competing band The Time, with its principal performer Morris Day. www.bluecoupe.com /DVD/purplerain.html   (738 words)

IGN: Purple Rain: 20th Anniversary Edition Review The main fault of the film is that it should have used the music more to tell the story instead of using it as interludes between a Prince autobiography. The soundtrack of Purple Rain is a classic and the music comes across much as it has on the CD I've owned for years. Purple Rain went on to become the most successful music-oriented movie ever made and the soundtrack spent months high atop the Billboard charts. dvd.ign.com /articles/548/548260p1.html   (1485 words)

Purple Rain (album) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia It was also the first appearance in Prince's band "The Revolution" by Wendy Melvoin, his guitarist in the Purple Rain film and for a few years afterwards. In 1998 Q magazine readers voted Purple Rain the 73rd greatest album of all time; in 2003 the TV network VH1 placed it at number 18. Purple Rain also won an Oscar for Best Original Score in 1985. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Purple_Rain_(album)   (370 words)

The Ziggy Stardust Companion: Purple Stardust by Christopher Barton Purple Rain: The album/film has widely been described as a “semi-autobiographical” portrait of Prince, under the characters name of The Kid. Purple Rain: Prince poses on his motorcycle in the street, the sidewalk is wet, he’s in front of a door (as Apollonia is in the doorway, looking on). Prince: Purple Rain is considered by many to be Prince’s breakthrough hit, although he enjoyed a few successes before this album, notably, the 1982 song and album 1999, the title tune being about a future gone wrong. www.5years.com /purplestardust.htm   (1900 words)

Purple Rain: 20th Anniversary Special Edition (1984) I flip-flopped on my grade for Rain and thought a “B+” might be a little high, but I felt that when I considered the film’s age, difficult lighting conditions and low budget, it merited the higher grade. Purple Rain appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 1.85:1 on this single-sided, double-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions. They go into the development of the film, finding a director, acting challenges and the reality behind the story, the film’s music, casting Apollonia, shooting in Minnesota, working with Prince, real-life band rivalries, ‘When Doves Cry” and some of the other songs, filming the performance shots, and the movie’s reception. www.dvdmg.com /purplerainanniversary.shtml   (2577 words)

DVD Bits - Region 4 and Region 1 DVD news, reviews, resources, PC-DVD, hardware The climax of the film - in which The Kid and The Revolution perform "Purple Rain" - is an emotional powerhouse of a scene, and nicely brings all of the dramatic and musical elements of the film together in one truly special moment. Purple Rain has been the recipient of a new digital remaster, and the results are pleasing. Prince has claimed that this film is not autobiographical in some sources, but in others he has said that he wanted it to mirror certain aspects of his life as closely as possible. www.dvdbits.com /reviews.asp?id=2691   (2770 words)

DVD.net : Prince - Purple Rain: 20th Anniversary Special Edition - DVD Review The Purple Rain soundtrack is a killer from the 80s and it's central to the appeal and success of the film. Purple Rain is the story of the Kid (Prince), a Minneapolis musician who fronts the rock group the Revolution (keyboard players Lisa Coleman and Matt “Doctor Fink, bassist Mark “Brownmark” Brown, drummer Robert Zajonic and guitartist Wendy Melvoin) one the house bands at the First Avenue Club and Seventh Street Entry. Purple Rain has been digitally remastered and is presented in an aspect ratio of 1.85:1 and is 16:9 enhanced. www.dvd.net.au /review.cgi?review_id=4981   (1687 words)

Purple Rain Rerelease NEW YORK (Reuters) - With the success of the Star Wars rerelease & positive outlook for the Grease rerelease, Warner Brothers has decided to dust off the 1984 flick Purple Rain and rerelease it in 1999 to mark the film's 15th anniversary. the fourth CD is an acoustic version of 'Purple Rain', while the fifth is a 'John Tesh meets Yanni' version of Purple Rain. The Artist plans to release 'Purple Ball', a 5 CD set containing music related to Purple Rain. members.aol.com /purpleaxxe/rain.html   (469 words)

Purple Rain Purple Rain (1984) was requested by a longtime reader. Films under five are generally awful even if you like that kind of film, equivalent to about one and a half stars from the critics or less, depending on just how far below five the rating is. I saw this film when it was first released on VHS, and was not overly impressed. www.fakes.net /purplerain.htm   (421 words)

Purple Rain Standard Release DVD - MovieWeb Purple Rain, the first starring film for Prince, is the story of an arrogant, young black singer, born and raised in Minneapolis, who reaches the pinnacle of stardom. Despite the misogynistic undercurrents in Purple Rain, the film's biggest fans were young women. Gorgeously photographed by Donald Thorin, Purple Rain is essentially a glorified music video, highlighted by a catalogue of Prince's hits, including {&I Would Die 4 U, {&When Doves Cry and {&Let's Go Crazy; the score deservedly won an Academy Award and a Grammy. www.movieweb.com /dvd/release/69/5369/features.php   (206 words)

Purple Rain Review Purple Rain is an example of all glamour and no substance (arguably one of the 80's trademarks) – the little bit of "plot" there is in the film is dragged down by Prince's unconvincing and sometimes wince-inducing acting. The film may not represent the 80's best films by any stretch of the imagination, but Purple Rain does serve as a virtually perfect snapshot of the music and style of the decade. Billed as a semi-autobiography, Purple Rain tells the story of an angry yet brilliant young musician that is trying to hold his life and band together. www.80sreborn.com /purple-rain.shtml   (591 words)

PURPLE RAIN (TWO-DISC SPECIAL EDITION); UNDER THE CHERRY MOON; GRAFFITI BRIDGE - DVDs As for extras, in addition to the film's trailer we have videos for "New Power Generation," "Thieves in the Temple," and "Round and Round" (all of which are heavily dependant upon clips from the film), as well as one for "The Question of U," an in-concert segment. Undeniably compelling in its tawdriness, Purple Rain nevertheless shares a trump card--its set list--with casual Prince fans, who are advised to reach for the soundtrack album instead. Each member of The Revolution resurfaces to honour their former bandleader in "Purple Rain: Backstage Pass" (30 mins.), an oral history of the production proper wherein Magnoli, a hairdresser type, goes on a crying jag as soon as he recalls Prince's on-screen heart-to-heart with Williams. www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/princetrio.htm   (1595 words)

Purple Rain (film) showing this Saturday in Seattle Purple Rain is the midnight showing on Saturday, April 30th at Seattle's Egyptian Theater. Sing-Along Purple Rain is Seattle's Midnight Mass debut, and features projected lyrics for maximum rocking during the screening of Prince's first motion picture. as opposed to the Purple Rain soundtrack showing? www.prince.org /msg/7/143040   (1089 words)

Purple Rain Movie Rewind « Purple Rain is truly an 80's classic and definitly one of the greatest movies ever which starred an actual performer. Apollonia was actually married at the time of Purple Rain, but was sworn to secrecy about it so that people would really think she and Prince were a couple. The two movies "Purple Rain" was competing against were the Willie Nelson musical drama "Songwriter" and the 3rd Muppet movie, "The Muppets Take Manhattan". www.fast-rewind.com /purplerain.htm   (1706 words)

Vitamin Records In the summer of 1984, Prince's Purple Rain spent 24 weeks on top of the albums chart and the movie opened at #1, becoming one of the biggest films of the year. One year after the success of 1999, the nuclear combination of the Purple Rain album and film catapulted the diminutive rocker into the stratosphere. Including instrumental arrangements of the entire Purple Rain album, B-sides from the era and liner notes from Per Nilsen of Uptown Magazine, this is a must have for even the most casual Prince fan. www.vitaminrecords.com /web/page.asp?pgs=product&catid=20&id=733   (235 words)

Purple Rain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The film Purple Rain which he starred in There are multiple meanings for Purple Rain, all related to Prince: The song "Purple Rain" from the same album en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Purple_Rain   (100 words)

Purple Rain/God It can be heard during the love scene in the Kid's basement in the Purple Rain film. On the label of the record this instrumental is subtitled as "Love Theme from Purple Rain". It has both versions: the vocal version (which was released in the Hits set on the B side disc) and the hard to find instrumental version. www.thedawnexperience.co.uk /collectors/coll_prain.htm   (133 words)

Purple rain, purple rain! - TCPUNK After the filming was complete the club closed for a short period, many of the employees took their purple rain checks and dissolved into other jobs downtown. Oddly enough, Prince never discussed his concept of the film with me, but here's what I was able to glean from working on the scene: two women clad in lingerie spend most of their time in a roomful of dolls, pining for their lover (Prince, duh!) and awaiting his return from his far-flung wanderings. After the disastrous first night of filming (or trying to), we all went home and slept thru the day and then regrouped again in the late afternoon and made another trek out to Prince's house in Chanhassen. www.tcpunk.com /ubb/Forum4/HTML/000291.html   (2757 words)

`Purple Rain' Captures a Distinctly '80s Dream / Silly film still has style, fresh music ``Purple Rain'' and its catchy, synthesized soundtrack are as entangled in this '80s myth of redemption and selfish splendor as its characters are possessed by dreams of glory. All four films were about cocky, talented and yet troubled young adults trying to hold on to a vision of themselves through success. Loosely based on aspects of Prince's life, ``Purple Rain'' is about a Minneapolis musician called ``the Kid,'' who wants to make a mark on the national scene. www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1999/01/01/DD31468.DTL   (514 words)

Amazon.com: Music from the Motion Picture "Purple Rain": Music: Prince & the Revolution Purple Rain is the rare album that is perfect to throw on at party, but also holds up through a pair of headphones with all of your focus on every note. Music from the Motion Picture "Purple Rain" [SOUNDTRACK] Ending with Prince's most recognized song, "Purple Rain," I can't help but declare this one of the most perfect pop songs ever recorded. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002L68?v=glance   (2266 words)

Purple Rain Movie Review at Hollywood Video The pop music film—traditionally a thin plot stringing together a series of musical performances—has drawn young audiences into theaters and drive ins for over 40 years, and pop star Prince's contribution to the genre was Purple Rain, the movie, television, and record combo that exploded onto the scene in 1984. As a pop music package, Purple Rain falls short of A Hard Day's Night (1964) and Quadrophenia (1979) because those films have decent acting, but well ahead of celebrated music films like Girl Can't Help It (1956), the The Monkees: Head (1968), and every film starring Elvis Presley or Annette Funicello. When Purple Rain first hit theaters, Prince was only in his mid twenties, but already well into his career and poised for the kind of breakthrough that only MTV exposure could provide. www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=1266   (1084 words)

Purple Rain Given the fact that the film did not have a huge budget, and given the fact that the film was predominantly shot in a dance club environment, I would presume that you would not be too surprised by what the video transfer actually looks like. And because we are not going to worry about this as a film, I guess we can largely ignore commenting upon the acting (of which there is sadly very little here), cinematography (which to be honest is not the best) and direction (which to be honest is even worse). Unfortunately the transfer is somewhat plagued by film artefacts, although perhaps no worse than to be expected in an unrestored film of this era. www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/PurpleRain.html   (1974 words)

Combustible Celluloid - Purple Rain (1984) Purple Rain was directed by a first-timer, Albert Magnoli, who could frame a music video but who lacked the skill to shape the film. No one in Purple Rain has any hang-ups about their attraction to the opposite sex and their longing for erotic adventures; they are more worried about succeeding professionally and emotionally. Prince really carries the film, both with his astonishing soundtrack music (arguably one of the two or three greatest albums of the 80s) and his promise of a kind of sexual liberation. www.combustiblecelluloid.com /classic/purplerain.shtml   (772 words)

Purple Rain Pimpology What really gives "Purple Rain" the aura of the pimp-hooker relationship is the inconsiderate and often violent interaction between Prince or Morris Day with Apollonia and the other women in the film. When the phenomenon known as "Purple Rain" burst onto the screen in 1984, it was still only a stone's throw away from the 1970's. At the time of its release, "Purple Rain" was only the latest to tell young women that looks and sexuality can easily be sold, and to tell young men that maybe, just maybe, pimping is easy after all. www.seeingblack.com /2005/x080305/purplerain_pimps.shtml   (901 words)

slant // magazine.com: DVD Review - Purple Rain The film was apparently shot in less than two weeks, and the fly-by-night cinematography is preserved here in grainy glory. Purple Rain's gazillion-selling soundtrack album has more or less eclipsed the film in pop culture history books. The film is obvious, and conflict is merely prelude to (Prince and) the Resolution, but Magnoli's professional, downright neorealistic approach to filming the concert clips almost disguises how audacious a structural conceit is the film's climax: nearly a half-hour of musical numbers that render the solipsism of Prince's vanity project entirely justifiable. www.slantmagazine.com /dvd/dvd_review.asp?ID=427   (724 words)

MTV.com - Movies - W. Somerset Maugham Lewis Milestone's 1932 film Rain was the first film of Maugham's work during the sound era to endure in popularity past its initial release, and, in 1934, Of Human Bondage, starring Leslie Howard and Bette Davis, became the first film version of his novel of the same name. In 1921, he published his short story Rain, part of a collection called The Trembling of a Leaf, which was so popular that it was later adapted into three feature films (and also figured peripherally in the script of one major film in 1932, Howard Hawks' Scarface). Maugham was the highest paid author in the world during the 1930s, a decade in which (though he stopped writing plays after 1933) he also enjoyed his heyday on the screen, as adaptations of his writings appeared annually. www.mtv.com /movies/person/153623/bio.jhtml   (1425 words)

DVDFILE.COM: Plug In The Nickelodeon - Silent Film on DVD Guide A shorter, earlier British film was the first known take on the story, but it was the 1912 American film that endeavored to do it properly Shakespearean justice, compensating for the inability to recite the famous dialogue by relying more heavily on the rock solid structure. The 1910 French film "Romeo Turns Bandit" (highlighted by beautifully detailed Pathe color tints), and the delicious "Desdemona," a backstage drama in which the intrigue of "Othello" is carried out in the private lives of the actors, finally climaxing with an on-stage murder of passion. This restored version of the film, courtesy of archivists David Shepard and Dean Duncan, is elaborately tinted in a variety of hues and suggests that the makers of Disney's more popular sound era film took as much from the silent as from the book. www.dvdfile.com /news/special_report/features/pluginthenickelodeon/silentliterature.html   (1618 words)

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