Lady Sings the Blues is an excellent film, period. Its long-overdue arrival on DVD is a welcome treat. The fact that the presentation is as solid as it is, without an over-inflated price you might expect to accompany such a disc, makes it all the more...read the complete Lady Sings the Blues (1972) review at DVD Talk (David Walker)
A staple biopic of Billie Holiday with all the time-hallowed mundanity of the genre (its preoccupation with her heroin addiction, for instance, or the sequence that 'explains' the song 'Strange Fruit'). What it tells you most about is those kitschy...read the complete Lady Sings the Blues (1972) review at Time Out (--)