Roy Orbison - A Black & White Night (DTS)
by Tony Mitchell (II)
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Actor: Bonnie Raitt, Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, Jackson Browne, Roy OrbisonDirector: Tony Mitchell (II)
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: AC-3, Black & White, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Live, NTSC
Picture Format: Academy Ratio, 1.33:1
Running Time: 64 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-11-09
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Image Entertainment
DVD Reviews of Roy Orbison - A Black & White Night (DTS)
DVD Review: Roy the Boy is great
Summary: 3 Stars
I saw the previous black and white concert on PBS, and franklin I was dissapointed in the B&W Blue Ray version.Perhaps its meant to be in Color, but I saw little difference in Blue Ray than the original concert.
Still, the sounds and the performance was vintage Roy Orbison
DVD Review: One Glorius Night.
Summary: 4 Stars
Roy is at the top of his game and the supporting cast is as star studded as it gets. I bought the HD DVD version... simply great. I did not give it five stars because there were were more than a few out of focus shots. They really show up in HD on a very large display.
After enjoying this you just have to wish all the great artists of the 50s and early 60s could have got at least one live performance of this caliber down for future generations to remember. Sadly so little of what is out there is not recorded in a way that is suitable for high quality transfer to the new high definition video and audio formats.
DVD Review: Roy Orbison
Summary: 1 Stars
It wasn't clear about which DVD to order and I made the mistake of ordering the HD and I can't play it on my machine. Watch the one you order.
Jim
DVD Review: EXELENTE,MUY BUENO,VERY GOOD
Summary: 5 Stars
LA CALIDAD MUSICAL ES EXELENTE,LA INTERPRETACION ES DE MUY BUENA CALIDAD,ROY ORBISON ES DE LO MEJORDVD Review: Not meant for Blu-Ray
Summary: 4 Stars
Buy this for the music, not for the video quality. It's filmed like a smokey nightclub most of the time, making the reason for transfer to Blu-ray somewhat of a mystery.
Description of Roy Orbison - A Black & White Night (DTS)
Few early rockers were more gifted or less honored in their prime than the late Roy Orbison, whose vaulting tenor and vulnerable love songs conjured heartbreak and desire with operatic intensity. This 1987 concert special, originally broadcast on Showtime, came two decades after Orbison had retreated from pop's front lines, yet neither Orbison nor his music coasts on mere nostalgia: in every respect, A Black and White Night survives as a triumphant performance and a superb video production, as well as a first-rate retrospective of Orbison's hits.Filmed in black and white against the streamlined art deco stage of the since-demolished Coconut Grove in downtown Los Angeles, the concert is buoyed by a remarkable cast of A-list Orbison fans who signed on as his accompanists. Under the direction of producer T-Bone Burnett, the stage band thus includes Jackson Browne, Burnett, Elvis Costello, k.d. lang, Bonnie Raitt, J.D. Souther, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, and Jennifer Warnes, along with the rhythm section from Elvis Presley's fabled late '60s and early '70s touring band. That astonishing lineup is all the more noteworthy for the restraint with which they collaborate--it's evident that those superstars came to honor Orbison, not upstage him, resulting in a gratifying cohesion to the performances.
Orbison himself sounds as powerful as ever, his soaring falsetto cresting as dramatically as it did on the studio versions of the hits that inevitably dominate. Those songs meanwhile confirm that his blue chip admiration society came as much for the caliber of his writing as for his ravishing voice: if he remains best known for the jaunty come-on of "Pretty Woman," Orbison was first and foremost a rock balladeer, capable of bringing lumps to our throats with such classics as "Crying" and "Only the Lonely," or conjuring romantic trances through such gentle charmers as "Dream Baby." On this night, he handled all of them with fervor and finesse. --Sam Sutherland
Few early rockers were more gifted or less honored in their prime than the late Roy Orbison, whose vaulting tenor and vulnerable love songs conjured heartbreak and desire with operatic intensity. This 1987 concert special, originally broadcast on Showtime, came two decades after Orbison had retreated from pop's front lines, yet neither Orbison nor his music coasts on mere nostalgia: in every respect, A Black and White Night survives as a triumphant performance and a superb video production, as well as a first-rate retrospective of Orbison's hits.
Filmed in black and white against the streamlined art deco stage of the since-demolished Coconut Grove in downtown Los Angeles, the concert is buoyed by a remarkable cast of A-list Orbison fans who signed on as his accompanists. Under the direction of producer T-Bone Burnett, the stage band thus includes Jackson Browne, Burnett, Elvis Costello, k.d. lang, Bonnie Raitt, J.D. Souther, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, and Jennifer Warnes, along with the rhythm section from Elvis Presley's fabled late '60s and early '70s touring band. That astonishing lineup is all the more noteworthy for the restraint with which they collaborate--it's evident that those superstars came to honor Orbison, not upstage him, resulting in a gratifying cohesion to the performances.
Orbison himself sounds as powerful as ever, his soaring falsetto cresting as dramatically as it did on the studio versions of the hits that inevitably dominate. Those songs meanwhile confirm that his blue chip admiration society came as much for the caliber of his writing as for his ravishing voice: if he remains best known for the jaunty come-on of "Pretty Woman," Orbison was first and foremost a rock balladeer, capable of bringing lumps to our throats with such classics as "Crying" and "Only the Lonely," or conjuring romantic trances through such gentle charmers as "Dream Baby." On this night, he handled all of them with fervor and finesse. --Sam Sutherland
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