Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story (Kino Blu-Ray - Liza Minnelli)

[UnionJackMix]

Annunced today in the news section. I'm super excited about this as I was not too sure they would release this on physical media. Strangely already listed on DeepDiscount as well, but only the BluRay while Amazon also has the DVD.
I still hope they will issue this in Europe.

https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=35966

[octobercountry]

I’m really looking forward to viewing this, and am so glad Liza was involved with the picture—and that she’s also writing an autobiography, which is to be released sometime in 2026. I understand if she doesn’t particularly want to talk about her addiction issues (or the addiction issues of other members of her family), and likewise doesn’t want to dwell on any unfortunate decisions she’s made over the course of her life. In other words, I don’t need to hear all the unpleasant details she would probably prefer be forgotten—no problem for me if she dwells primarily on the positive. In the past she said she’d never write an autobiography, and I’m so glad she changed her mind. I mean—she has so many great showbiz stories to tell!

[UnionJackMix]

Originally Posted by octobercountry

I’m really looking forward to viewing this, and am so glad Liza was involved with the picture—and that she’s also writing an autobiography, which is to be released sometime in 2026. I understand if she doesn’t particularly want to talk about her addiction issues (or the addiction issues of other members of her family), and likewise doesn’t want to dwell on any unfortunate decisions she’s made over the course of her life. In other words, I don’t need to hear all the unpleasant details she would probably prefer be forgotten—no problem for me if she dwells primarily on the positive. In the past she said she’d never write an autobiography, and I’m so glad she changed her mind. I mean—she has so many great showbiz stories to tell!

Well I can understand she would not want to mention her last marriage but it's not really a correct autobiography if you omit all the negative things that happened in your life, I mean, that was her life, and you learn from your mistakes. This cancel culture is more infective than C19 or what?

[octobercountry]

Originally Posted by UnionJackMix

Well I can understand she would not want to mention her last marriage but it's not really a correct autobiography if you omit all the negative things that happened in your life....

Though--- if a person is contributing to their own biopic, or writing their autobiography, I suppose they can pretty much determine which aspects of their life they want to discuss, and determine what material is on or off the table. It isn't really a matter of being "correct," it's a matter of what they want to talk about.

Plus there's always the idea that it's difficult to be objective about one's own life to begin with, so how accurate is ANY autobiography? Certainly there are many, many celebrity biographies that don't begin to tell the whole story, or even a slightly accurate story. (Just one example of many---Rosalind Russell's autobiography was notorious for its high fiction content; she made up all sorts of things!)

[UnionJackMix]

Maybe they should take Ethel Merman's approach with regards to her marriage to Ernest Borgnine and have an empty page

[bokes]

anyone get this? feedback?

[darrellmaclaine]

Originally Posted by octobercountry

Rosalind Russell's autobiography was notorious for its high fiction content; she made up all sorts of things!

Esther Williams' one is full of absolute fiction too, some of it quite slanderous. It's annoying as autobiographies and biographies are relied on as a primary information source and they sometimes are nothing of the sort.

In the 80s and 90s particularly, publishers would push hard for memoirs, biographies and confessionals to be scandalous and sensationalised or they wouldn't publish them, all so they could be serialised in magazines and newspapers as free advertising. Some really nasty ones written about actors, comedians, authors and musicians which in turn became films or a primary source of the character assassination that makes up their Wikipedia pages, which in turn gets churned out as posthumous social media 'cancellations'. Just a sausage machine of made-up or exaggerated tabloid nonsense, it really isn't fair.

[Aunt Peg]

This will be streaming on DocPlay in Australia very soon.

A friend saw it at a film festival back in February and loved it.

[UnionJackMix]

My physical copies are in transit. I also bought the high-quality poster and love it, it is a bit embossed and (I think it's called) spot-glossy. Love it!

[octobercountry]

I watched the film when it was broadcast on PBS about a week ago. And I have to say… not bad overall. I learned a fair amount of stuff about her life I wasn’t really aware of previously. Though at the same time, there seemed to be a huge amount of material that they didn’t touch AT ALL. Surprised to see Lorna have such a small part in the interview sections.

Well, like I said before---I totally understand Liza only focusing on stuff she WANTED to talk about, and not all the more unfortunate aspects of her personal life or career. This isn’t a film I’m likely to re-watch often, but I do plan to buy the blu-ray later (when it’s on sale) for the supplemental material.

Though I’m a bit confused by the broadcast I viewed. The additional bit at the end, after the credits had rolled---was that a part of the actual film? Or something done special only for the PBS broadcast? Or something included with the bonus material on the disc? No idea… I wasn’t aware that her 1975 (? sorry can’t remember the date) European tour was such a big deal, or that there was any film footage of it.

[UnionJackMix]

Just received my DVD and Bluray. Good that I've done that because the Bluray is from KL and is labelled as Region A, so I would not be able to play it (yet) meaning at least I can watch the DVD. Also, if it's Region A it would indicate they have someone else for other markets. Sad they didn't do a slipcover as it would have looked absolutely stunning, this art-deco-adjacent artwork.

[Nitroes]

This is on iPlayer for those that can get it https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002cty3

Didn't think much of it would've been better if Liza wasn't in it.

The producers then might of had more imagination to think of ways to keep me watching rather than wheeling out people who love Liza.