West Side Story and Tribute to Stephen Sondheim

The Cine-Files

Steve Morris & John Rocha

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2021

⏱️ 136 minutes

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Summary

This week on The Cine-Files we honor one of the most important composers and artists of the last century, Stephen Sondheim, by revisiting a conversation on the musical that brought him international attention, West Side Story for which he did the lyrics. This is one of our favorite conversations and we couldn't revisit this iconic film without inviting our guests, Milena Govich and David Cornue back to the microphone to put the life and work of Stephen Sondheim into perspective.

This was a wonderful conversation. In fact, it was so good that we didn't want it to end. So, stay tuned Cine-Files for a much longer exploration of the man who changed musical theater forever, Stephen Sondheim.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome once again to The Cinefiles, where each week we enter the world of a great
0:11.2	film, we explore its themes, the history, the filmmaking and the influence it has on
0:15.0	us today.
0:16.0	My name is Steve Morris.
0:17.0	I'm a filmmaker and directing instructor in Los Angeles, California.
0:20.0	Hello, everyone.
0:21.0	My name is John Roca.
0:22.0	I'm a writer, producer and host here in San Diego, California, and a massive Stephen
0:28.4	Sondheim fan and very excited.
0:31.2	Steve to talk about him and to talk about him with our two incredible guests.
0:35.4	You know, we do this.
0:36.4	We do this whenever we lose a great artist and sometimes certainly qualifies as a great
0:40.2	artist.
0:41.2	And I'd say nine times out of ten, John has just been you and me.
0:44.0	Yes.
0:45.0	But frankly, I couldn't imagine talking about Stephen Sondheim without talking about
0:49.8	two of my favorite guests we've ever had on The Cinefiles and people that it is a damn
0:54.2	crime we haven't had back and that's entirely like we talked about it over and over again.
0:59.6	You should have been back long before this.
1:01.8	David Cornu and Malena Govich, David is a composer and a writer.
1:06.2	He just finished doing a pilot directed by John Chu, who did Crazy Rich Asians and in
1:11.0	the Heights.
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