Charlie 'Bird' Parker
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Sep 30, 1988 · Bird is a 1988 drama film directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Forest Whitaker as Charlie Parker, a saxophonist who struggled with drug addiction and interracial relationships. The film won an Oscar and features his music and the voices of his contemporaries.
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- Biography, Drama, Music
- Clint Eastwood
- 1988-09-30
Bird is a 1988 American biographical musical drama film about jazz saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker, directed and produced by Clint Eastwood from a screenplay by Joel Oliansky. The film stars Forest Whitaker as Parker, and Diane Venora.
Bird is a 2024 drama film written and directed by Andrea Arnold and starring Barry Keoghan. The film had its world premiere at the 77th Cannes Film Festival on 16 May 2024. [1]
“Bird” is a long, complex, ambitious movie, and it contains a lot of great music. Charles “Bird” Parker was one of the great fountainheads of jazz, a creator of bebop whose improvisations and joyful discoveries on the saxophone created a sound that is absolutely distinctive.
Director Clint Eastwood, a noted jazz aficionado, directs this heartfelt study of pioneering bop saxophonist Charlie Parker (Forest Whitaker).
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- Clint Eastwood
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- Forest Whitaker
May 4, 2016 · Trailer for Clint Eastwood's "Bird" (1988), starring Forest Whitaker and Diane Venora.
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- 17.2K
- Jeffrey M. Anderson
This film is a tribute to the life and genius of saxophonist great Charlie Parker. Bird is a collage of passages from Parker's remarkable life, from his childhood in Kansas City, through his tumultuous interracial relationship with Chan Richardson, to his tragic death at the age of 34.
