Close to You - Remembering the Carpenters List Price: $24.98 Our Price: $12.89 Your Save: $ 12.09 ( 48% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Mpi Home Video Starring: Herb Alpert, Burt Bacharach, John Bettis, Willy Brandt, Agnes Carpenter Average Customer Rating: Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD EAN: 9786304861707 Format: Color ISBN: 6304861702 Label: Mpi Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Mpi Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: 1998-03-31 Running Time: 90 Studio: Mpi Home Video Theatrical Release Date: 1997 Related Items The Carpenters - Gold: Greatest Hits Carpenters - Interpretations Carpenters Gold: 35th Anniversary Edition Yesterday Once More: Memories of the Carpenters and Their Music As Time Goes By Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: It Was A Better World While She Was In It... Comment: Great documentary on the Carpenters. It contains stuff I didn't even know. Back in 1982 I worked for the law firm which represented the Carpenters and Karen would come in from time to time. It truely was a thrill just to hold a script of their T.V. special in my hands. She's gone now but she left us with so many great songs and performances. Their great success was due to 3 things: Karen's GREAT voice, Richard being a brilliant musician, and Richard's ability to know a good song when he heard it. I followed their career from the begining and never in a million years thought I'd work at a firm that would be their attys. Anyway if you love the Carpenters, you can't help but love this DVD. Customer Rating: Summary: close to you Comment: when i got this movie i thought it was the tv version movie but it was good Customer Rating: Summary: Wonderful Comment: I can't even think of how many times I have watched this wonderful rememberance of Karen Carpenter and the career with Richard. It is moving to say the least. If your a true fan you must have this. You will watch it over and over. Karen is an inspiration to me in more ways than one. Her voice has never been matched and never will be in my opinion. This has wonderful clips of many things they have done together as well as their battles. Many of the reviews have told pretty much everything but this is my 2 cents. Karen...your voice lives on forever in our hearts...we miss you. Customer Rating: Summary: It carries a full load of the history and charm of Carpenters. Comment: I would like to give not 5Stars but 10Stars to this DVD. An image is beautiful and there are also many precious scenes. A sound is also excellent. It is also interesting that the famous various persons concerned also sometimes appear. The song of Karen is beautiful and the arrangement of Richard is wonderful. There are so many hit songs of theirs that they do not count and go out. Their special edition was telecast even in Japan last month. Much more materials are included in this DVD from it. I also got to know that Richard was playing the piano of Japanese-made YAMAHA for the first time. Although two commercials were recorded with the additional material, I thought as a Japanese that I was glad for it to be Japanese chocolate and soda pop. It is an image in which the scene which held the concert in front of President Nixon is also precious in the White House. Anyhow, it is altogether moving from the beginning to the last. This is likely to be set to one of the treasures of mine. Customer Rating: Summary: Karen and Richard Comment: I remember their singing in the seventies but didn't pay as much attention to them then. Times change and after playing their album I realize how good they really were. Editorial Reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: It Was A Better World While She Was In It... Comment: Great documentary on the Carpenters. It contains stuff I didn't even know. Back in 1982 I worked for the law firm which represented the Carpenters and Karen would come in from time to time. It truely was a thrill just to hold a script of their T.V. special in my hands. She's gone now but she left us with so many great songs and performances. Their great success was due to 3 things: Karen's GREAT voice, Richard being a brilliant musician, and Richard's ability to know a good song when he heard it. I followed their career from the begining and never in a million years thought I'd work at a firm that would be their attys. Anyway if you love the Carpenters, you can't help but love this DVD. Customer Rating: Summary: close to you Comment: when i got this movie i thought it was the tv version movie but it was good Customer Rating: Summary: Wonderful Comment: I can't even think of how many times I have watched this wonderful rememberance of Karen Carpenter and the career with Richard. It is moving to say the least. If your a true fan you must have this. You will watch it over and over. Karen is an inspiration to me in more ways than one. Her voice has never been matched and never will be in my opinion. This has wonderful clips of many things they have done together as well as their battles. Many of the reviews have told pretty much everything but this is my 2 cents. Karen...your voice lives on forever in our hearts...we miss you. Customer Rating: Summary: It carries a full load of the history and charm of Carpenters. Comment: I would like to give not 5Stars but 10Stars to this DVD. An image is beautiful and there are also many precious scenes. A sound is also excellent. It is also interesting that the famous various persons concerned also sometimes appear. The song of Karen is beautiful and the arrangement of Richard is wonderful. There are so many hit songs of theirs that they do not count and go out. Their special edition was telecast even in Japan last month. Much more materials are included in this DVD from it. I also got to know that Richard was playing the piano of Japanese-made YAMAHA for the first time. Although two commercials were recorded with the additional material, I thought as a Japanese that I was glad for it to be Japanese chocolate and soda pop. It is an image in which the scene which held the concert in front of President Nixon is also precious in the White House. Anyhow, it is altogether moving from the beginning to the last. This is likely to be set to one of the treasures of mine. Customer Rating: Summary: Karen and Richard Comment: I remember their singing in the seventies but didn't pay as much attention to them then. Times change and after playing their album I realize how good they really were. When Karen Carpenter died on February 4, 1983 at the age of 32, more than one generation mourned. Karen and her brother, Richard, had achieved monumental success as purveyors of soft-rock soulfulness, aided by their wholesome, wistful looks. After all, these were the hard-rocking, disco-throbbing '70s, yet with classics like "Close to You," "Rainy Days and Mondays," and "We've Only Just Begun," the pair blurred the lines of musical class. But no one knew--or at least talked about--Karen's debilitating bouts of bulimia and ongoing battle against the ravaging effects of anorexia. Close to You: Remembering the Carpenters is more a gracious memento than a documentary and presents a rather biased view, heavily influenced by Richard's opinion and commentary. Beginning with the duo's early major success, winning a Battle of the Bands at the Hollywood Bowl, it's a quick trip through the salad years including the first record deal with Herb Alpert's A&M Records. Alpert calls his initial listen to the Carpenters' demo tape "love at first hear." That appears to be true for everyone who came into contact with them, as band members, songwriters Burt Bacharach and Paul Williams, and singer Petula Clark readily testify. The hits and the TV specials are reviewed, too, but something feels missing from this glimpse, which barely scratches the surface. It's obvious to anyone watching the film that Karen, who really wanted to be known as a drummer who sang, not the other way around, was in immense pain and terribly conflicted. Yet by the final credits, we know little more about her than we did before. She remains an enigma and this peek at her life--and Richard's--feels too protective of her memory to tell the whole truth. --Paula Nechak Ask about this healthcare product "Close to You - Remembering the Carpenters" in the forum Give review on this healthcare product "Close to You - Remembering the Carpenters" in the forum Search related information in the forum