Criterion Channel 3 by Streisand 2020

Streisand / Television

“Three by Barbra Streisand” [Interview] (2020)

  • INTERVIEW CREDITS
    • Producer: Karen Stetler
    • Production Coordinator: Gracy Handy/Barwood Films
    • Supervising Producer: Kim Hendrickson
    • Production Manager: Brett Sharlow
    • Executive Producers: Peter Becker, Fumiko Takagi, Jonathan Turell
    • Director of Programming: Penelope Bartlett
    • Video Editor: Daniel Reis
    • Online Editor: Clyde Folley
    • Camera and Sound: John Halliday
    • Assistant to Ms. Streisand: Renata Buser
    • Hairstylist: Soonie Paik
    • Audio Mixer: Vasilis Fotopoulos
    • Programming Coordinator: Nathan Viner
    • Postproduction Coordinator: Andrew Alvarez
    • Postproduction Supervisor: Giles Sherwood
    • Director of Production: Angie Bucknell
    • Digital Media Technician: Keenan Novi
    • Photo Research: Kim Skalecki/Barwood Films
    • Photo Retoucher: Julie Sussman
    • Copy Editor: Edward Karam


    Special Thanks:

    • Barbra Streisand
    • and Nico Chapin
    • Derek Davidson, Howard Mandelbaum/Photofest
    • Martin Erlichman
    • Michele Hadlow/Everett Collection
    • Courtney Ott
    • Tracy Quinn
    • Ryan Werner
Criterion Channel page for Streisand, December 2020
Barbra Streisand, beautifully photographed for her 2020 interview on The Criterion Channel

In December 2020, Barbra Streisand made her debut on The Criterion Channel — a streaming service launched in 2019 that features an eclectic mix of classic and contemporary films from Hollywood and around the world. The channel, available in the U.S. and Canada, is watchable on desktop and mobile web browsers or through apps for Apple TV, Amazon Fire, Roku, iOS, and Android devices.


The Criterion Channel bundled three of Streisand’s films together (as they do often with directors each month): The Mirror Has Two Faces, Yentl, and The Prince of Tides.  For Tides, Criterion included most of the bonus content from the Blu-ray they released earlier in 2020 — there is Streisand's commentary, rehearsal footage, costume and makeup tests, gag reel, deleted scenes, alternate end credits, and the Robert Rodriguez interview with Streisand.

Criterion Channel page with Prince of Tide bonus features.

The most exciting content created exclusively for The Criterion Channel was a new, 36:17 minute interview with Barbra Streisand, filmed in 2020. In the stylishly produced interview (Barbra looks gorgeous), she talks about her first few movies but mostly concentrates on the three which are streaming on the channel. Sprinkled through the interview are clips from the films, as well as some very rare behind-the-scenes photos.


Here's some highlights from Barbra’s interview:


  • “I was very fortunate to have Willy Wyler and the cinematographer Harry Stradling who really appreciated my ideas, my opinions. But the second film I made [Hello, Dolly!], the two males — the director and the leading man — they were like, what? You have an idea? When men put you down or think you're inferior .... I don't know ... or your ideas don't count.”
  • For the first time ever, the megaphone that Wyler gave Streisand after finishing Funny Girl is shown on screen. (It reads “Barbra Streisand D.G.A. [Directors Guild of America]. To Barbra from Willy.”)
  • “It's not quite accurate to say I chose Yentl for my directing debut, because I feel it's more like Yentl chose me.”
  • “My character Rose [in The Mirror Has Two Faces] gets the guy at the end. Looking back I realize that Rose is simply the latest in a long line of characters who are trying to fulfill their potential and to have a career and love in their lives. And I seem to be telling the same story over and over again in a way. Or am I not? Am I?”

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