Fiddler on the Roof, dubbed "the most compelling cinema musical ever made" by Pauline Kael of The New Yorker, celebrated its 50th anniversary in the fall of 2021. The Jeff Goldblum-narrated film FIDDLER'S JOURNEY TO THE BIG SCREEN captures the humor and drama of filmmaker Norman Jewison's effort to reimagine the renowned stage play as a wide-screen epic and reconstruct the lost world of Jewish life in Tsarist Russia. By using behind-the-scenes footage, never-before-seen stills, original interviews with Jewison, Topol (Tevye), composer John Williams, production designer Robert F. Boyle, film critic Kenneth Turan, lyricist Sheldon Harnick, and actresses Rosalind Harris, Michele Marsh, and Neva Small (Tevye's daughters), Oscar-nominated director Daniel Raim transports us into the director's chair and into Je The movie examines how creating Fiddler strengthened and revivified Jewison's artistic vision.
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Fiddler on the Roof, dubbed "the most compelling cinema musical ever made" by Pauline Kael of The New Yorker, celebrated its 50th anniversary in the fall of 2021. The Jeff Goldblum-narrated film FIDDLER'S JOURNEY TO THE BIG SCREEN captures the humor and drama of filmmaker Norman Jewison's effort to reimagine the renowned stage play as a wide-screen epic and reconstruct the lost world of Jewish life in Tsarist Russia. By using behind-the-scenes footage, never-before-seen stills, original interviews with Jewison, Topol (Tevye), composer John Williams, production designer Robert F. Boyle, film critic Kenneth Turan, lyricist Sheldon Harnick, and actresses Rosalind Harris, Michele Marsh, and Neva Small (Tevye's daughters), Oscar-nominated director Daniel Raim transports us into the director's chair and into Je The movie examines how creating Fiddler strengthened and revivified Jewison's artistic vision.
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