Yentl was successful at the box office, opening at #5 at the US box office upon its limited release weekend and stayed in the top 10 for 9 weeks, peaking at number 3, in its 3rd week. The film went on to gross more than $40 million
This movie is somewhat like Twelfth Night, only her father and brother are both dead... But the same love triangle persist... Like Duke Orsino madly in love with Lady Olivia, Lady Olivia madly in love with Sebastian (aka Viola), Sebastian (aka Viola) madly in love with Duke Orsino
@sportzbabe0901 She's The Man is based on Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night." There are many movies based on this concept. To name a few...Mulan, Just One of the Guys (80's movie), the list goes on and on. Shakespeare is classic.
@sportzbabe0901 She's The Man is based on Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night." There are many movies based on this concept. To name a few...Mulan, Just One of the Guys (80's movie), the list goes on and on. Shakespeare is classic.
I watched the film for the first time last night. Not gonna lie, I bought it for the Mandy Patinkin content (especially the river scene), but I actually really liked it.
que horror esos dias en que las mujeres tenian solo un camino, pero ahora hay muchas que se horrorisan de tantos caminos que llevar y no pueden ver cual les conviene.
I remember watching this trailer back when the movie was being advertised on "Super Channel back in the 80's...This trailer is made me a Streisand fan..lol
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I love this movie, it is one of my favourites. Streisand does a terrific job as a director and an actress. Still: there is always one thing that bothered me: every idiot should have noticed that she was a girl dressed as a boy. There was a scene where tailors are measuring her to make her wedding costume (when Anshel marries Hadass). She does not have a D cup, but it is still a bit wierd that they did not noticed some things when they measured her chest.
Seeing the trailer makes me see the scenes in a different way (I never, EVER saw this trailer before...they should put it on Turner Classic Movies, which does have a lot of other movie trailers!).
SuperClaire,
Not to get too picky or anything, but their names actually are spelled Yentl and Avigdor. Your spelling was pretty close to that, though. (And I love that part of the movie too. ^_^)
("I wanted to be near you." "Why?" "I didn't want to lose you." "Why?" "I loved you!")
If anyone ever makes The Steven Spielberg Story into a movie, Barbra should play Steven. OK give me thumbs down but I don't mean it as an insult. She'd be great.
I was 13 when I saw this movie, I remember as if it was yesterday (I'm talking about 1983). I loved this woman already, but she became number one since then. And she would never. When we were deeply glad to see what she would be giving us (and that was more than enough), she came and gave us more and more and more, throwing that arrow in our hearts again and again and again, showing that nothing was impossible. Well, that moves me since then. Thank you, beautiful gougeous funny girl Streisand!
Some people, younger ones these days, don't know that this was the first major Hollywood movie to be directed, produced and starring a female. This is a great film and love story.
I love this movie it makes me cry. its so powerfull and brilliant ...I love Avigdor and Im just simply no spech front of all that wonderfull Barbra's talent. She is unic!!!!!
Great movie. A true classic. I just found out that Kat Kramer is going to have a special screening for people who worked on it. It's going to be at the Stanley Kramer Theatre in Hollywood. Too bad it's not open to the public.
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This movie makes the actor ask the ultimate question....should women be allowed to get out of the kichen and study scripture? Yes, only when they are done cooking for the husband!
Yentl grossed $40,218,899.00 in 1983 and was the 18th highest grossing film that year. It received 5 Academy Award nominations and Streisand won the Golden Globe for Best Director. Steven Spielberg called it the best directorial debut since Citizen Kane.
@saltheshoe Yentl grossed over $40,000,000.00 the year it was released and was one of the top 20 grossing films released that year. Streisand won the Golden Globe for Best Director becoming the first woman to win that award. The film also won the Golden Globe for Best Picture Comedy or Musical. Yentl received five Academy Award nominations and won for Best Musical Score.
What a great trailer. I performed in Fiddler on the Roof with Nehemiah Persoff a year before he played papa in Yentl....so this has great sentimental value.
Oh yes! The trailer (although nice) makes the movie seem like a comedy. Although it has funny moments, it is a drama about what people will do for love.
The icing on the cake is the great music in the movie and how it propels the story. I can't listen to the music without getting goosebumps, or watch the movie without getting a tear in my eye.
How much reality is one suppossed to suspend accepting the notion that a women that petitie, that female in appearance and voice was suppossed to pass as a man? I could have seen Rosie O'Donnoll pull it off, but not Barbra Steisand.
I Know, I know. But think 17th century - who would ever suspect a woman trying to pull this off? And please try to imagine Rosie O Donnell singing these lovely songs?? See why I love my barbara? She was perfect in it.
I hope they have added a yiddish language audio track as a bonus. Yidddish actors can dub the dialogue, and Barbra Streisand can sing her songs in yiddish, a language she knows well.
I'm glad to have the trailer. Which would, o'course, be on the DVD - if we ever SEE the DVD! I'm fed up with waiting for it - and with Streisand. I saw this 25 times in the theater. I've seen the VHS a dozen times. No greater fan can exist for this brilliant tour-de-force of a film. Yet her procrastination - she shouldn't insult us, as on "Oprah," by implying it's not her fault - is too much. FIX that color already! Let go of it all! No DVD after 15, 20 ... now, 25 YEARS, in '08? Who knows!
It could well be "done," yep, as to her habit of over-twiddling. Yet I know how well connected BJS is throughout Hollywood. If she leaned on any six of her mogul friends to get a 25th Anniversary DVD released, it would be on the schedule in a month - 500,000 orders instantly. Her bud David Geffen alone could buy it from the dregs of MGM/UA in 5 minutes and get it going. If she wanted it enough, we'd have it. It pains me to say, but by now I doubt she TRULY wants to bother. Not much, anyway.
I agree. To be a Streisand fan is also to be a bit frustrated, right? I am desperately wanting to have YENTL on DVD as well. I'm also wanting to see some of those great TV specials (The Burt Bacharach Special, the Concert at the Forum, etc) released with all those recordings she's made but never used on albums. But I know I have to be patient because I already own everything she's done. What's left to look forward to if I have EVERYTHING she's never released already?
Spreading this frustration is needless, methinks, on her part. They're not beating down doors to offer her movies. (Well, "Meet the Parents 3" is in the works. Oy!) Why not supervise the release of a "Just for the Record" set for video, as well as this "Yentl" disc? She's not that busy. I see her not doing these from a lack of will and choices, not from any corporates standing in her way. She'd make them richer. She's wowed them before. Sadly, she just doesn't WANT to that much.
Sweet! I know what I am doing tonight :-) I heard "Papa, Can You Hear Me" the other day, and I was like what a great song, I wonder where it is from? lol Thanks, Soon2Belphie!
The songs are great but the theme of the movie is really against Judaism as a whole. she caused g-d fearing men to go against jewish law . in short, it is quite disturbing.
I can understand why you would give up the Anglicans too obsessed with comforting the comfortable. Was your wife Orthodox, Reform or Conservative? It matters.Depends which sect of Judaism you want to convert to
My advice to the Xtian who wants to become a Jew. You go to a Messianic Congregation and before you know it, you will be coming to see us and the rabbi will refuse you three times before you convert to the Judiasm. I think you will like it OK.
Dear Joeo. Who wants to convert himself to Judaism ? My wife is jewish and I am not. And we've been married for 16 years now. She has certain beliefs, though not practicant, and I am a neo-pagan (although I was brought up by the Anglicans). There was no problem from the anglican church to marry us. But the rabbi almost fainted when I told him I had no religion. I cannot understand why you segregate people that way. I asked that rabbi, he didn't reply. So, can YOU answer my question ?
If you mean segragating males and females, I think I can answer that question for you. I am a 20 year old orthodox female! I do not feel underprivileged at all! Women and men have different roles in Judaism and in life... Neither of them are of lesser importance... I am fully educated in Hebrew Studies (bible, philosophy modern language...) and in secular studies. We are kept separate so that we can focus on our goals in life without distraction and to keep marriage sacred...
Brilliantly put;I am over 20 years older then you and I feel completely fulfilled with my life as an orthodox woman,much more fulfilled then I did before I chose the orthodox path when I was in my 20's.
I don't think the person understands that under the Eastern European jewish tradition men and women who ar not related are kept separated toinsure family purity at the wedding! Women did NOT get education - in my family, they were NOT allowed to learn Hebrew.She let the two marry and she went to America where she get the opportunity to study! Orthodox society is still EXTREMELY man-contolled!
I own the soundtrack and I love, love, looooove it deeply!!! I've never saw the movie but I really want to loving the music!! Is it available on DVD??
OMG It givesm me chills watching this trailor even though I've seen the film about 50 times!! Let THIS YEAR, the 25th anniversary, be the year for the DVD release. COME ON, Barbra!!
Why wouldn't she want to go to America? I don't understand I.B. Singer's argument. Where did Yentl go in the book? And what's the whole deal with the DVD release? Is Barbara Streisand preventing the movie from coming out on DVD or something?
" Why would she decide to go to America? Weren't there enough yeshivas in Poland or in Lithuania where she could continue to study? Was going to America Miss Streisand's idea of a happy ending for Yentl? What would Yentl have done in America? Worked in a sweatshop 12 hours a day where there is no time for learning? Would she try to marry a salesman in New York, move to the Bronx or to Brooklyn and rent an apartment with an ice box and a dumbwaiter? " Comment by I.B. Singer in the
I saw this movie countless times and I learned every word of every song. I used to go out to our back yard late at night so I could sing to the sky. I used to pretend that I was Barbra. Poor neighbours - LOL
One of my all time FAVORITE movies! I can't wait for it to be released on DVD. Bravo Barbara! (I saw this movie when I was 15 and fell in love with Judaism. I determined to read the Talmud - sorry if it's spelled incorrectly. Well, it was a lot to read...so I just saw the film a bunch of times instead). Much love to my Jewish brothers and sisters - from their Christian cousin.
Mandy Patinkin is sooooo scrumptios in this!!! I am DYING to own it on DVD when the Region 1 comes out,IF it ever does!GRRRR!I want to finally get to see the ENTIRE film and not just tidbits!*sigh*
I absolutely adore Barbras voice and acting talent!!! She is like my musical theater idol haha. Im so mad you can't find this movie anymore. Does anyone know if and where I can find it on DVD?
Yentl has been avaliable on Dvd in Europe for a While now.But as yet not avaliable in the U.S, There is a planned Region 1 release but so far it's still on hold.You could get it from Amazon U.K or Amazon France but you would need a Multi region Dvd Player!
I loved this movie :3
ErikkChattman 2 weeks ago
She looks like Lady Gaga, but a more beautiful version.
yakitatexplote 4 months ago
Yentl was successful at the box office, opening at #5 at the US box office upon its limited release weekend and stayed in the top 10 for 9 weeks, peaking at number 3, in its 3rd week. The film went on to gross more than $40 million
jimmyl324 5 months ago
LOOOOVE this movie.
E1chow 11 months ago
This movie is somewhat like Twelfth Night, only her father and brother are both dead... But the same love triangle persist... Like Duke Orsino madly in love with Lady Olivia, Lady Olivia madly in love with Sebastian (aka Viola), Sebastian (aka Viola) madly in love with Duke Orsino
Edeliz91 1 year ago
rollman.... that was ugly. I think shes lovely as is.
lurblur1 1 year ago
...How the heck do you let it go so far as to get married to another woman?
TenmaxHarima 1 year ago
Umm I REALLY wanna see this :)
TwilightLuvvverxxx 1 year ago
If she must study She should of gone to Hogwarts She has the nose for a witch
Rollman1 1 year ago
@Rollman1 :OOOOOOO omg that nose is beautiful its jewish kk shut up shes more famous then you could ever be
Thatbabygirlnamedali 11 months ago
Funny Girl meets Fiddler on the Roof
Rollman1 1 year ago
If the religion here was Islam If this took place in a Muslem country Mohamed Yentl
would have gotten her head cut off for pulling that off
Rollman1 1 year ago
This movie is based on a true jewish short story.
conniesmarykay 1 year ago
There is no bigger Barbra Streisand fan than I, and I have yet to ever make it through this God awful silly snoozer .... despite its fantastic score.
mikesterSTLMO 1 year ago
@mikesterSTLMO And the real silly part is dident her study partner ever notice her facesal hair never starts to grow
Rollman1 1 year ago
Did She's The Man steal the plot for this or what? Haha
sportzbabe0901 1 year ago 10
@sportzbabe0901
this movie is based on a short story by nobel prize winner
yiddish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer.
albertdiner 1 year ago
@sportzbabe0901 She's The Man is based on Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night." There are many movies based on this concept. To name a few...Mulan, Just One of the Guys (80's movie), the list goes on and on. Shakespeare is classic.
apricelessmoment 1 year ago
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@sportzbabe0901 She's The Man is based on Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night." There are many movies based on this concept. To name a few...Mulan, Just One of the Guys (80's movie), the list goes on and on. Shakespeare is classic.
apricelessmoment 1 year ago
@sportzbabe0901 Actually She's the Man stole the plot of Twelth Night, a play by Shsakespeare
harusume 1 year ago
@sportzbabe0901 She's the Man is based off of Twelfth Night by Shakespeare - they even use the same names.
AppleJaxx0801 1 year ago
@sportzbabe0901
She's The Man is an adaptation of Twelfth Night, a Shakespeare play.
mercutiooji 1 year ago
@sportzbabe0901 She's the man is based on Twelfth Night.
OprahIsMyGod 1 year ago
@sportzbabe0901 She's The Man is actually based on Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.
Eriksoneandonly 1 year ago
@sportzbabe0901 Actually, She's the Man "stole" its plot from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.
LoftierThanMine 6 months ago
Thanks to Glee, I want to watch this movie :D
Jtapangxx90 1 year ago 2
I love Barbra streisand's voice!!!!
YeshuaIsrael1 1 year ago
Great score and cinematography, storyline and screenplay ... not so much.
mikesterSTLMO 1 year ago
i'm hungry for some KREK-LAK!
TracyAndersonFoxhunt 1 year ago
I'd love to see this one again!
TheChaplinLover 1 year ago
Yentl por TCM, Hoy a las 9pm, no hay que perdérsela!!!!!!
azamoracubillo 1 year ago
This trailer sound like a bad ben stiller comedy.
Hey by the way, who is this man with the red hair? I am pretty sure to have already heard this annoying voice somewhere
luxcheeky 1 year ago
Great movie...and the underlying wisdom about law vs life is quite profound.
TheGoalSetter 1 year ago
I watched the film for the first time last night. Not gonna lie, I bought it for the Mandy Patinkin content (especially the river scene), but I actually really liked it.
eMEELyah 1 year ago
YENTL!
Keeeeeeeeth 1 year ago
oh i love this movie so much...and barbra...and the hot jewish guy...
hardstreetbambi 1 year ago
wunderful ..i love this movie...
priedigkeit1 1 year ago
Fantastico ! Emocionante ! Eternamente Streisand...
CLAUDIOMENDES18 2 years ago
Thank you Michel Legrand.
STEAMWORKER 2 years ago
Do you want me to transcribe it?
musictranscription 2 years ago
Grande Streisand !
furaskin 2 years ago 2
Wow I've seen lots of watered down versions of this but THIS looks serious!
Kissy731 2 years ago
que horror esos dias en que las mujeres tenian solo un camino, pero ahora hay muchas que se horrorisan de tantos caminos que llevar y no pueden ver cual les conviene.
hsusana73 2 years ago
I remember watching this trailer back when the movie was being advertised on "Super Channel back in the 80's...This trailer is made me a Streisand fan..lol
virago2 2 years ago
i love this movie so much!
beccabebe428 2 years ago
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TheManWithTVEyes 2 years ago
I love this movie, it is one of my favourites. Streisand does a terrific job as a director and an actress. Still: there is always one thing that bothered me: every idiot should have noticed that she was a girl dressed as a boy. There was a scene where tailors are measuring her to make her wedding costume (when Anshel marries Hadass). She does not have a D cup, but it is still a bit wierd that they did not noticed some things when they measured her chest.
CF1975 2 years ago
Its a small Jewish mirracle :)
Mishkafofer 2 years ago 16
there's one scene in the movie where u can see how she tighded her chest.
but anyway....
...its just fairytail not historic document!
need to be more "open minded" about it
;)
lewylewel 2 years ago
@CF1975
Same happended with the He-Man cartoons. Nobody noticed that Prince Adam was 100% look-a-like He-Man. (well, a little tanned) but still the same.
Even Cranger and Battle Cat were the same!
Weird things of the 80´s...
montbard 2 years ago
How very "Twelfth Night".:):P
And IT'S THE GUY FROM "CRIMINAL MINDS"!!!...And "PRINCESS BRIDE"!:):P
CantStayAway 2 years ago 2
what is the song she is singing in this trailer?
Elphabarulez 2 years ago
"A Piece of Sky"
nickbambico 2 years ago
When she says/sings that Papa always wanted to dance at her wedding...
"But something tells me that I'm right, you wouldn't want to dance tonight..."
(The "just the usual wedding nerves" thing reminded me of that part. ^_^)
=^___^=
KittyStarlight 2 years ago 2
Giggle...the trailer includes the part with "just the usual nerves before the wedding". ^_~
(Sure, THAT'S all it is...mm-hm. ^_~)
^_~
KittyStarlight 2 years ago
Seeing the trailer makes me see the scenes in a different way (I never, EVER saw this trailer before...they should put it on Turner Classic Movies, which does have a lot of other movie trailers!).
SuperClaire,
Not to get too picky or anything, but their names actually are spelled Yentl and Avigdor. Your spelling was pretty close to that, though. (And I love that part of the movie too. ^_^)
("I wanted to be near you." "Why?" "I didn't want to lose you." "Why?" "I loved you!")
KittyStarlight 2 years ago
I love this film especially when Yentle says to Avictor that she is a woman.
SuperClaire1981 2 years ago
If anyone ever makes The Steven Spielberg Story into a movie, Barbra should play Steven. OK give me thumbs down but I don't mean it as an insult. She'd be great.
Gefilta 2 years ago 4
I was 13 when I saw this movie, I remember as if it was yesterday (I'm talking about 1983). I loved this woman already, but she became number one since then. And she would never. When we were deeply glad to see what she would be giving us (and that was more than enough), she came and gave us more and more and more, throwing that arrow in our hearts again and again and again, showing that nothing was impossible. Well, that moves me since then. Thank you, beautiful gougeous funny girl Streisand!
PrimoPaganiniNeto 2 years ago 2
Her voice has always been the most beautiful I've ever heard, and after over 20 years, the clips of Mandy still make my heart race.
Wonderful movie!
MissLadyDoolittle 2 years ago 2
I love this film. God bless Barbra.
edinyemiliano 2 years ago 3
Some people, younger ones these days, don't know that this was the first major Hollywood movie to be directed, produced and starring a female. This is a great film and love story.
kennyone2006 2 years ago 3
I love this movie, Ibelieve everyone should see it!!!
ilovebananaicecream 2 years ago 3
Wow... this films twisted!
bensonxandxhedges 2 years ago
where could i find this movie?? i want to watch it so badly
andreroxy11 2 years ago 5
Good news. It has just been released
in DVD format.
albertdiner 2 years ago 3
@andreroxy11 if you have netflix, you can watch it instantly on ur computer.
SuperLuigiGuys 1 year ago
@andreroxy11 ...Have you heard of Amazon?
Branigan4ever 8 months ago
I love this movie it makes me cry. its so powerfull and brilliant ...I love Avigdor and Im just simply no spech front of all that wonderfull Barbra's talent. She is unic!!!!!
sthfan1 2 years ago 3
Has Barbra Streisand ever scared
anyone to death? Well? Has she?
procommenter 2 years ago
this is THE MOST JEWISHY FILM EVER!
Catapult82 2 years ago 2
Great movie. A true classic. I just found out that Kat Kramer is going to have a special screening for people who worked on it. It's going to be at the Stanley Kramer Theatre in Hollywood. Too bad it's not open to the public.
UNKLESAMM1776 2 years ago 2
This is a good film Give her a break she worked her ass off to get it made . I'd like to hear any of you hold a note for 45 seconds at the end..
boyadog052661 2 years ago 4
One of her more deeper movies. i just watched NUTS 4 like the millionth time :-) BS ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!
jmc1987jcgc 2 years ago
shoul women be allowed to geto out of the kitchen and so on?
Yes but only without love and far from their roots: in a word... alone
tonnarina 2 years ago
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This movie makes the actor ask the ultimate question....should women be allowed to get out of the kichen and study scripture? Yes, only when they are done cooking for the husband!
redneckmarine87 2 years ago
BEAUTIFUL film!
drinksleepeatfilms 3 years ago
Didn't something like "three people" pay to see this picture when it came out in the theaters?
saltheshoe 3 years ago
It was a huge sucess in 1984, and was
nominated for many academy awards.
And not only in the U.S. but also overseas.
albertdiner 3 years ago 2
Yentl grossed $40,218,899.00 in 1983 and was the 18th highest grossing film that year. It received 5 Academy Award nominations and Streisand won the Golden Globe for Best Director. Steven Spielberg called it the best directorial debut since Citizen Kane.
samnight 2 years ago 2
@saltheshoe Yentl grossed over $40,000,000.00 the year it was released and was one of the top 20 grossing films released that year. Streisand won the Golden Globe for Best Director becoming the first woman to win that award. The film also won the Golden Globe for Best Picture Comedy or Musical. Yentl received five Academy Award nominations and won for Best Musical Score.
bgeisler63 7 months ago
@saltheshoe No.
cvaldary123 4 months ago
so does she get the kosher salami in the end?
thenewrapstyle 3 years ago
oh this looks good...
HELLO NETFLIX!
charrose11 3 years ago
Barbra best finally coming to DVD!!!!
jimmyl324 3 years ago
awesome movie
monkeysee110 3 years ago
Excellent news: the DVD will FINALLY be released for the US in Feb 2009. Both B&N and Amazon have it for pre-order.
Arpeggio2007 3 years ago
What a great trailer. I performed in Fiddler on the Roof with Nehemiah Persoff a year before he played papa in Yentl....so this has great sentimental value.
rbocanegra62 3 years ago
This was the first time I had seen the trailler, and it DOES NOT do the movie justice.
I was able to find an old VHS copy at a flea market about 10 years ago, but I would love to get this on DVD.
CMGutier74 3 years ago
it doesn't?
is the movie any better than the trailer cause the trailer looks pretty good!
charrose11 3 years ago
Oh yes! The trailer (although nice) makes the movie seem like a comedy. Although it has funny moments, it is a drama about what people will do for love.
The icing on the cake is the great music in the movie and how it propels the story. I can't listen to the music without getting goosebumps, or watch the movie without getting a tear in my eye.
I hope you enjoy it when you see it. : )
CMGutier74 3 years ago 2
i LOOOVE this movie!!
AndyHurleysChicklet7 3 years ago
AWSOME THATS MY NAME!
thebestprincess01 3 years ago
How much reality is one suppossed to suspend accepting the notion that a women that petitie, that female in appearance and voice was suppossed to pass as a man? I could have seen Rosie O'Donnoll pull it off, but not Barbra Steisand.
VoteGingrich 3 years ago
plus, those NAILS
olooshia 3 years ago
I Know, I know. But think 17th century - who would ever suspect a woman trying to pull this off? And please try to imagine Rosie O Donnell singing these lovely songs?? See why I love my barbara? She was perfect in it.
GAMOM2 3 years ago
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HA the best propoganda i've ever seen, as if a woman could learn
galgameth 3 years ago
I love her voice! not just singing but talking too!
MedicalExaminersRule 3 years ago
Someday Yentl will be released on DVD. When it finally comes out it will be wondeful!
punisher21200 3 years ago
Since they (UA) waited so long to release it,
I hope they have added a yiddish language audio track as a bonus. Yidddish actors can dub the dialogue, and Barbra Streisand can sing her songs in yiddish, a language she knows well.
albertdiner 3 years ago
I'm glad to have the trailer. Which would, o'course, be on the DVD - if we ever SEE the DVD! I'm fed up with waiting for it - and with Streisand. I saw this 25 times in the theater. I've seen the VHS a dozen times. No greater fan can exist for this brilliant tour-de-force of a film. Yet her procrastination - she shouldn't insult us, as on "Oprah," by implying it's not her fault - is too much. FIX that color already! Let go of it all! No DVD after 15, 20 ... now, 25 YEARS, in '08? Who knows!
Starhavenite 3 years ago
Streisand doesn't control the release - it's MGM, which is now distributed by Fox. It's all done - the film, the commentaries, everything.
ohbutyes 3 years ago
Barbra said on Oprah that UA ( United Artist)
owns the film. Did MGM buy UA ( United Artist)
lately. I know that Tom Cruise bought a large
part of United Artist. Maybe we should write
to him. Do Barbra and Tom Cruise get along well? anyone knows?
albertdiner 3 years ago
It could well be "done," yep, as to her habit of over-twiddling. Yet I know how well connected BJS is throughout Hollywood. If she leaned on any six of her mogul friends to get a 25th Anniversary DVD released, it would be on the schedule in a month - 500,000 orders instantly. Her bud David Geffen alone could buy it from the dregs of MGM/UA in 5 minutes and get it going. If she wanted it enough, we'd have it. It pains me to say, but by now I doubt she TRULY wants to bother. Not much, anyway.
Starhavenite 3 years ago
You know your stuff!
filthyralph 3 years ago
I agree. To be a Streisand fan is also to be a bit frustrated, right? I am desperately wanting to have YENTL on DVD as well. I'm also wanting to see some of those great TV specials (The Burt Bacharach Special, the Concert at the Forum, etc) released with all those recordings she's made but never used on albums. But I know I have to be patient because I already own everything she's done. What's left to look forward to if I have EVERYTHING she's never released already?
baileydebrillon 3 years ago
Spreading this frustration is needless, methinks, on her part. They're not beating down doors to offer her movies. (Well, "Meet the Parents 3" is in the works. Oy!) Why not supervise the release of a "Just for the Record" set for video, as well as this "Yentl" disc? She's not that busy. I see her not doing these from a lack of will and choices, not from any corporates standing in her way. She'd make them richer. She's wowed them before. Sadly, she just doesn't WANT to that much.
Starhavenite 3 years ago
Wow! Why have I never heard of this movie? It looks really good :-) Thanks for posting the trailer, albertdiner
DolphinSweetie 3 years ago
OMG! You haven't heard of this? YOU NEED TO WATCH IT NOW!!!!! You can search yentl part one and watch it in parts. BEST MOVIE EVER!
soon2belphie 3 years ago
Sweet! I know what I am doing tonight :-) I heard "Papa, Can You Hear Me" the other day, and I was like what a great song, I wonder where it is from? lol Thanks, Soon2Belphie!
DolphinSweetie 3 years ago
Aweomeness.Have yo seen it yet?
soon2belphie 3 years ago
He vivido y vivo gracias a esta película. He muerto y resucitado, he llorado y reído gracias a esta película.
Siempre querré ser Yentl
reyescruz2 3 years ago
que gran pelicula que gran voz y que gran final
poiuyyheejej 3 years ago
uno dei miei film preferiti di Barbra..
splendido musical!
carolineal 3 years ago
The songs are great but the theme of the movie is really against Judaism as a whole. she caused g-d fearing men to go against jewish law . in short, it is quite disturbing.
janamijal 3 years ago
It's not really against Judaism...just against some of the gender roles.
vanityfair713 3 years ago
A great streisand movie! I can't wait for the movie to be released on DVD in the USA! What is taking so long?
punisher21200 3 years ago
This is one of the best movies of Barbra's, for sure... a powerful story so beautifully captured.
novascotiawill 3 years ago
I can understand why you would give up the Anglicans too obsessed with comforting the comfortable. Was your wife Orthodox, Reform or Conservative? It matters.Depends which sect of Judaism you want to convert to
joeocho88 3 years ago
I hadn't seen this movie since I was a kid, but I watched it today for the first time in a long time and fell in love with it all over again...:)
Jessismith2000 3 years ago
My advice to the Xtian who wants to become a Jew. You go to a Messianic Congregation and before you know it, you will be coming to see us and the rabbi will refuse you three times before you convert to the Judiasm. I think you will like it OK.
joeocho88 3 years ago
Dear Joeo. Who wants to convert himself to Judaism ? My wife is jewish and I am not. And we've been married for 16 years now. She has certain beliefs, though not practicant, and I am a neo-pagan (although I was brought up by the Anglicans). There was no problem from the anglican church to marry us. But the rabbi almost fainted when I told him I had no religion. I cannot understand why you segregate people that way. I asked that rabbi, he didn't reply. So, can YOU answer my question ?
shangqinli 3 years ago
If you mean segragating males and females, I think I can answer that question for you. I am a 20 year old orthodox female! I do not feel underprivileged at all! Women and men have different roles in Judaism and in life... Neither of them are of lesser importance... I am fully educated in Hebrew Studies (bible, philosophy modern language...) and in secular studies. We are kept separate so that we can focus on our goals in life without distraction and to keep marriage sacred...
AnonymouslySecret 3 years ago
Brilliantly put;I am over 20 years older then you and I feel completely fulfilled with my life as an orthodox woman,much more fulfilled then I did before I chose the orthodox path when I was in my 20's.
mrsmarmite 3 years ago
I don't think the person understands that under the Eastern European jewish tradition men and women who ar not related are kept separated toinsure family purity at the wedding! Women did NOT get education - in my family, they were NOT allowed to learn Hebrew.She let the two marry and she went to America where she get the opportunity to study! Orthodox society is still EXTREMELY man-contolled!
joeocho88 3 years ago
I own the soundtrack and I love, love, looooove it deeply!!! I've never saw the movie but I really want to loving the music!! Is it available on DVD??
Dionesque 3 years ago
I got this on DVD last week!
mattiryan 3 years ago
WOW....how did I miss this?
DandBProductionsInc 3 years ago
OMG It givesm me chills watching this trailor even though I've seen the film about 50 times!! Let THIS YEAR, the 25th anniversary, be the year for the DVD release. COME ON, Barbra!!
sushicourier 3 years ago
HI there
I've also seen the movie many times - What country do you think she is going to when she gets on the ship, a the end.
Is it America or Israel?
AmandaPanda1966 3 years ago
Definately America, Ellis Island, New York.
This ending created a big argument between
Barbra Streisand and Isaac Bashevis Singer,
the writer of the short story YENTL THE
YESHIVA BOY. Why should Yentl be going to
America, argued I.B. Singer.
albertdiner 3 years ago
Why wouldn't she want to go to America? I don't understand I.B. Singer's argument. Where did Yentl go in the book? And what's the whole deal with the DVD release? Is Barbara Streisand preventing the movie from coming out on DVD or something?
TimeWaster001 3 years ago
" Why would she decide to go to America? Weren't there enough yeshivas in Poland or in Lithuania where she could continue to study? Was going to America Miss Streisand's idea of a happy ending for Yentl? What would Yentl have done in America? Worked in a sweatshop 12 hours a day where there is no time for learning? Would she try to marry a salesman in New York, move to the Bronx or to Brooklyn and rent an apartment with an ice box and a dumbwaiter? " Comment by I.B. Singer in the
NYTIMES.
albertdiner 3 years ago
Oh I see. But what about the DVD release? I would love to own this film on DVD. My old VHS tape is really worn out.
TimeWaster001 3 years ago
Barbra streisand said on TV that she does not
own the movie. It is owned by UNITED ARTISTS.
Tom Cruise recently purchased an important
share of United Artists. Does he have control
over the release of Yentl?, I dont know.
Streisand asked the audience to write to
United Artists.
albertdiner 3 years ago
I saw this movie countless times and I learned every word of every song. I used to go out to our back yard late at night so I could sing to the sky. I used to pretend that I was Barbra. Poor neighbours - LOL
ajiboujimou 3 years ago
A beautiful movie. I saw 3 times on 3 days continuous.
israelsamuel 3 years ago 2
One of my all time FAVORITE movies! I can't wait for it to be released on DVD. Bravo Barbara! (I saw this movie when I was 15 and fell in love with Judaism. I determined to read the Talmud - sorry if it's spelled incorrectly. Well, it was a lot to read...so I just saw the film a bunch of times instead). Much love to my Jewish brothers and sisters - from their Christian cousin.
GAMOM2 3 years ago 4
rhe wondiful movie i liked
hudrigd 3 years ago
Doesn't anyone find it irritating that this film has not yet been released to DVD???
This film looks wonderful; Barbra Striesand is wonderful as always!!!
huntress1863 3 years ago
Who does one beg to get the DVD out?
aardvark1917 3 years ago
is ur name really Yentl?
leigh50766 4 years ago
it realy funny my name is Yentl :P
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YentlJonckers 4 years ago
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I'm ashamed Barbra's Jewish like me....what an arrogant, yenta fag hag cow
JaredEricFusia 4 years ago
im Kvelling!!!!!!!
peliroja52087 4 years ago
I love Yentl! It inspires me everytime i watch it!
outinsider 4 years ago 3
awesome awesome awesome movie amazing book!
Broadwaystar2be5 4 years ago 3
The most wonderful movie i have ever seen.
gegoco123 4 years ago 5
One of my favourites films!!! Thanks!!!
Musettaprof 4 years ago 4
Stunning movie she was brilliant
dercarsus 4 years ago 5
Naprawde wspanialy film!
adamwas 4 years ago
I loved this movie so much! Amy Irving and Barbara Steisand had such chemistry.
TudorRose85 4 years ago
Anyone is waiting for the DVD to come out?
francisshen 4 years ago
The DVD is out, I have it. C:
broodergeek 4 years ago
Thwe DVD came out in Europe and Israel, but
not in the U.S.. The European version does
not include the deleted scenes, and extras
that are planned for the U.S. version. There
will be directors comment by Barbra Streisand,
and color correction done by Barbra. So we
wait...
albertdiner 4 years ago
Thank you for the info. I saw those versions on Amazon. But I'm waiting for the US version. :-)
francisshen 4 years ago
The whole thing is finished and ready to go... has been for a long time. Next year is the 25th Anniversary - I'd bet my money on next year.
ohbutyes 4 years ago
I would suggest to Barbra to add a yiddish
languagua option to the DVD, and to have her
record her 6 songs in yiddish. The movie is based on the yiddish short story YENTL, THE
YESHIVA BOY, by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Yentl
spoke yiddish to her father as well as to
Avigdor and the yeshiva boys. Include a
yiddish language track.
albertdiner 4 years ago
This movie is great. I cried when I saw it.
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dheschete 4 years ago
To jeden z najpiękniejszych Filmów muzycznych
procesor6 4 years ago
love this movie so much hehe
ka3na827 4 years ago
Amy Irving is really beautiful in this movie, too. She's such a great actress, and I wonder why she hasn't done more movies than she has?
Bobbyg49 4 years ago
Mandy Patinkin is sooooo scrumptios in this!!! I am DYING to own it on DVD when the Region 1 comes out,IF it ever does!GRRRR!I want to finally get to see the ENTIRE film and not just tidbits!*sigh*
Gerrys1PhantomFan 4 years ago
oh i'm gonna LOVE this movie! ^_^
JillHill7 4 years ago
I absolutely adore Barbras voice and acting talent!!! She is like my musical theater idol haha. Im so mad you can't find this movie anymore. Does anyone know if and where I can find it on DVD?
KayTee246 4 years ago
Yentl has been avaliable on Dvd in Europe for a While now.But as yet not avaliable in the U.S, There is a planned Region 1 release but so far it's still on hold.You could get it from Amazon U.K or Amazon France but you would need a Multi region Dvd Player!
Ridenaude 4 years ago
the most beautiful movie love ..ill ever seen before
juinkiboy 4 years ago
heheheh, mandy. what a girlie name.
eboulter 4 years ago
Wasn't he in that film "Princess Bride". Remember the dude who goes: "My name is Diego Montoia, you killed my father, prepare to die".
eboulter 4 years ago
Yes. He played Avigdor in Yentl, and the swashbuckler in The Princess Bride. His name is Mandy Patinkin.
BooKittyRadley 4 years ago
yes that's him. his name in Princess Bride is actually "Inigo Montoya" though.
hspolomo18 4 years ago
Thank you, I never saw this back in 1982. i lived in the middle of no where. Thank you. I needed to hear, "Nothing's Impossible" tonight.
nealbrice 4 years ago
Eu adorei este filme, é lindo demais.
roseperes 4 years ago
Barbra YOU ARE SO BEAUTIFUL AND TALENTED< I LOVE YOU SO< YOU ARE AN ANGEL! NO ONE CAN TAKE THAT AWAY FROM YOU> LOVE JIMBO
jimbo46chr 4 years ago
I rather enjoyed the movie and the songs in it.
BigLisaFan 4 years ago