
Saturday, March 29, 2008
| 3:00 p.m. | West Side Story Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins (U.S., 1961) |
PFA Collection Print
This vibrant musical reinvents Romeo and Juliet in the context of a standoff between rival gangs, with Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer as the star-crossed lovers. Jerome Robbins’s choreography and Leonard Bernstein’s music are both breathlessly exciting and socially expressive, animating the gaps between young love and adult prejudice, and between the American dream and the characters’ New York reality.
• Written by Ernest Lehman, based on the musical by Leonard Bernstein, book by Arthur Laurents. Photographed by Daniel L. Fapp. With Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno. (150 mins, Color, ’Scope, 35mm, PFA Collection, permission MGM)

