Blu - ray Highlight: Although it's appeared on previous editions, «The Art of the Sting» is an excellent three - part retrospective that features interviews with Robert Redford, Paul Newman and other cast and crew as they reflect back on making the film, including the choice to
use ragtime music for the score, cast chemistry and anecdotes from the set.
Not exact matches
Winner of seven Oscars, including best picture, it also will forever be known for its
use of the Scott Joplin piano
ragtime piece «The Entertainer.»
Written in the spirit of E.L Doctorow's
Ragtime, Gold's expansive novel attempts to dissect and fuse together the birth of Hollywood, the escalating events leading to the Great War, and the ascendancy of American capitalism,
using a vast array of characters both real and fictional.
His stylized, graphic black - and - white song - and - dance images are direct heirs to the jitterbug, R&B, jazz,
ragtime and music hall themes
used by artists like Archibald John Motley Jr. (1891 - 1981) and William H. Johnson (1901 - 1970).