Fly 'Idlewild' - The Other Flashy Musical of '06
Fly IDLEWILD, the other flashy-cool musical of 2006.
Stephanie Zacharek of Salon put it on her year's ten-best list.
"Messy and extraordinary, Bryan Barber's Prohibition-era musical, starring OutKast's Andre 3000 and Big Boi, is a dream history of black pop culture, and a testament -- to paraphrase a line from Stanley Crouch -- to the ways that inventing, borrowing and refining can bring us closer to the lives we want to lead. One of the most beautiful-looking pictures of the year (the cinematography is by Pascal Rabaud), "Idlewild" slipped out of theaters before most people could see it on the big screen. It deserves an immediate rep-house revival."
Idlewild went fast to DVD (it's out now on Universal Home Video).