ACADEMY AWARD® WINNER

1988 New York Film Critics' Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress - Diane Venora

"Exhilarating! Clint Eastwood’s consummate directing and flawless cast send BIRD soaring. A prodigious movie—BIRD lives!"
- Gene Shalit, NBC-TV

"There is not a cheap note or a careless image, not an easy judgement or a focused emotion, in BIRD. It permits a man's life its complexity. And with its passionate craft, it proclaims that Eastwood is a major American director."

- Richard Schickel, TIME

"BIRD is a moving tribute and a labor of love. The portrait it offers is one Charlie Parker's admirers will recognize. The soundtrack is superb."

- Janet Maslin, THE NEW YORK TIMES

"BIRD lives! An uncompromising labor of love. BIRD reveals its own pleasures and excitements."

- Mike McGrady, NEWSDAY

"The best Hollywood movie ever made about jazz. See it twice!"

- Gary Giddins, THE VILLAGE VOICE

"Terrifically entertaining! Eastwood consolidates his position as a first-rank filmmaker."

- David Sterritt, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR

"Clint Eastwood's film is from the heart. He has done a daring thing. Charlie Parker's music and BIRD lives."

- Jami Bernard, NEW YORK POST

"Powered by Eastwood's passionate commitment, this BIRD flies."

- Peter Travers, PEOPLE

"BIRD is a labor of love that really should be seen."

- Mike Clark, USA TODAY

"BIRD is an extraordinary work made with honesty, insight and unmistakable love. BIRD, a film of remarkable sensitivity...."

- Jack Kroll, NEWSWEEK

"BIRD is a masterfully balanced biography. One of the year's best movies. BIRD, a magnificent tribute."

- Bill Hagen, SAN DIEGHO TRIBUNE

"Clint Eastwood, director and producer has made a remarkable film . . . On the Franklin scale of one to ten . . . a ten."

- Gary Franklin, KABC-TV

"A brilliant achievement."

- Dave Kehr, CHICAGO TRIBUNE

"With its visual elegance, sensational music and tremendous depth of feeling, BIRD will blow you away. You'll need the fingers of both hands to tote up the likely Oscar nominations."

- Michael Burkett, PHOENIX NEW TIMES

"BIRD is one of the finest films of the year."

- Jerry Roberts, SOUTH BAY DAILY BREEZE (TORRANCE CA.)

"The movie is as bravely innovative as Parker's unique sound."

- Kathleen Carroll, NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

"Probably the best jazz movie ever made."

- Richard Freedman, NEWHOUSE NEWSPAPERS

"BIRD is a boldly innovative, effusively warm-hearted, wonderfully toe-tapping tribute."

- Jeff Strickler, MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE

"Powerful scenes. Well-written, well-acted."

- Joel Siegel, GOOD MORNING AMERICA

"This one is a must see."

- Pia Lindstrom, WNBC-TV

"BIRD is wonderful in every way."

- Peter Goddard, TORONTO STAR

"BIRD is the best film about jazz ever made."

- James Verniere, BOSTON HERALD

"BIRD soars . . . At last an uncompromising jazz film. Meticulously crafted film, from the painstakingly reconstructed music tracks using original Parker solos to a daring visual style that cloaks most of the film in shadows."

- Robert Trussell, KANSAS CITY STAR

"BIRD soars and swoons in such a wholly captivating fashion that you can't help but be swept along."

- Steve Dollar, ATLANTA JOURNAL/CONSTITUTION

"A truly masterful film."

- Lou Cedrone, BALTIMORE EVENING SUN

"Among the very best films ever made about that exceedingly strange species . . . known as the artist."

- Steve Eyman, MIAMI NEWS

"It's a beautifully made film, with the courage to depart from standard Hollywood styles of storytelling and image-making."

- Howie Movshovitz, DENVER POST

"BIRD is a perfectly crafted, balanced film."

- Jeff Turrentine, DAILY TEXAN

"Magnificent treatment of jazz—and no film has done it better."

- Herb Boyd, THE GUARDIAN

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