Lady Gaga in A Star is Born 
 
 Lady Gaga makes her feature film debut in Bradley Cooper’s remake of A Star is Born. Ahead of the film’s October 5th release, the first trailer has arrived and you can watch it below. 
 
 In addition to directing the film, Cooper co-stars alongside Gaga. He plays a season musician named Jack Maine, who discovers and falls in love with a struggling musician named Ally (played by Gaga). “She has just about given up on her dream to make it big as a singer until Jack coaxes her into the spotlight,” reads a plot synopsis. “But even as Ally’s career takes off, the personal side of their relationship is breaking down, as Jack fights an ongoing battle with his own internal demons,” 
 
 The film also stars Andrew Dice Clay, Sam Elliott, and Dave Chappelle. 
 
 As previewed in the trailer, the film features original music which Gaga wrote with Cooper and a handful of other musicians, including Lukas Nelson, Jason Isbell, and Mark Ronson. All of the music is original and was recorded live. ||||| Lady Gaga is ready for her big screen debut! 
 
 The musician stars alongside Bradley Cooper in A Star is Born — a remake of the 1976 film starring Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson. Gaga plays an aspiring singer whose career begins to take off after she meets Cooper’s washed up country singer Jackson Maine. 
 
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 The first trailer offers a hint of the drama to come in the film, but mainly focuses on how Cooper and Gaga’s characters meet and her reluctance to want to be on stage. 
 
 “I don’t sing my own songs. I just don’t feel comfortable,” Gaga tells Cooper. “Almost every single person has told me they like the way I sounded but they didn’t like the way I look.” 
 
 When Cooper replies by telling her “I think you’re beautiful,” the trailer shows them falling in love and Cooper eventually encouraging Gaga to overcome her fears of performing. 
 
 The movie also marks Cooper’s directorial debut and features the actor singing live. A portion of the film was shot during Coachella in 2017. 
 
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 “It all came down to this broken love story, and there’s no better way to express that than through singing because there’s nowhere to hide when you’re singing. Your whole body is electrified,” Cooper told Entertainment Weekly of the film in December. “That was the initial igniter of the passion for me.” 
 
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 https://www.instagram.com/starisbornm... “A Star is Born” stars four-time Oscar nominee Bradley Cooper (“American Sniper,” “American Hustle,” “Silver Linings Playbook”) and multiple award-winning, Oscar-nominated music superstar Lady Gaga, in her first leading role in a major motion picture. Cooper helms the drama, marking his directorial debut. 
 
 
 
 In this new take on the tragic love story, he plays seasoned musician Jackson Maine, who discovers—and falls in love with—struggling artist Ally (Gaga). She has just about given up on her dream to make it big as a singer... until Jack coaxes her into the spotlight. But even as Ally’s career takes off, the personal side of their relationship is breaking down, as Jack fights an ongoing battle with his own internal demons. 
 
 
 
 The cast of “A Star is Born” also includes Andrew Dice Clay, with Dave Chappelle and Sam Elliott. 
 
 
 
 In addition to playing Ally, Gaga, who earned her Oscar nod for the song “Til It Happens to You” from “The Hunting Ground,” performs original songs in the film, which she wrote with Cooper and a handful of artists, including Lukas Nelson, Jason Isbell and Mark Ronson. All the music is original and was recorded live. 
 
 
 
 “A Star is Born” is produced by Bill Gerber, Jon Peters, Bradley Cooper, Todd Phillips and Lynette Howell Taylor. Ravi Mehta, Basil Iwanyk, Niija Kuykendall, Sue Kroll, Michael Rapino and Heather Parry serve as executive producers. The screenplay is by Eric Roth and Bradley Cooper & Will Fetters. 
 
 
 
 Collaborating with Cooper behind the scenes are Oscar-nominated director of photography Matthew Libatique (“Black Swan”), production designer Karen Murphy, three-time Oscar-nominated editor Jay Cassidy (“American Hustle,” “Silver Linings Playbook,” “Into the Wild”), and costume designer Erin Benach. 
 
 
 
 Warner Bros. Pictures Presents, in Association with Live Nation Productions, in Association with Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures, A Jon Peters/Bill Gerber/Joint Effort Production, “A Star is Born.” Slated for release on October 5, 2018, the film will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company. It is rated R. ||||| RATING: **** (out of 4) 
 
 Director: Bradley Cooper 
 
 Cast: Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga, Andrew Dice Clay, Dave Chappelle, Sam Elliott 
 
 Screenplay: Bradley Cooper, Eric Roth, Will Fetters 
 
 Running time: 135 minutes 
 
 Like crafting the perfect pop song, remaking a film classic requires the utmost precision and care. 
 
 One false performance, one scene that doesn’t ring true, and the whole thing can fall apart. 
 
 So of course, Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born winded its way to theatres with a jukebox full of expectations. Even if you weren’t a fan of one of the three other versions that have been released (which include the 1976 hit starring Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson), the idea of casting Lady Gaga as an unknown singer with pop star aspirations might cause even her most ardent fans to raise a skeptical eyebrow. 
 
 But, working from a script that he co-wrote with Eric Roth and Will Fetters, Cooper has managed to do the impossible. He’s put together an instant movie classic that will have audiences falling in love with his brand new creation. 
 
 Cooper plays Jackson Maine, a popular country star who, when we meet him, is on a downward spiral. Following a packed show (which was filmed at Glastonbury in front of 80,000 people), Jackson stops for a drink at a drag bar where he witnesses Gaga’s Ally singing a breath-stopping version of Edith Piaf’s La Vie En Rose. 
 
 In an instant, Jackson — and the audience — is smitten. 
 
 The chemistry between Cooper and Gaga in the film’s opening frames is electric as they bar hop and then walk the aisle at a grocery store. Thrusting his camera up close, Cooper leaves both himself and the Grammy-winning singer nowhere to hide. They’re completely vulnerable and you realize how perfect they both are at playing people who’ve been bruised by life and are now falling madly in love. 
 
 After that whirlwind night, Jackson invites Ally to his next concert where he brings her onstage to sing. As clips of Ally’s performance go viral, her star is born. 
 
 If you’re familiar with the tragic story, you know where this is heading: as Ally’s musical dreams start to be realized, Jackson’s stature begins to fade. 
 
 But in between, Cooper infuses his fresh take with a cast of characters that draws you further into Jackson and Ally’s orbit of dreamers and heartbreak. This is a love story that crackles with electricity backed by songs that pulsate with emotional intensity. 
 
 There’s her father (played by Andrew Dice Clay), a limo driver who long harboured his own dreams of stardom. As Noodles, Dave Chappelle plays a family man who shows Jackson the value in taking the road less travelled. Then we get Sam Elliott, as Jackson’s brother Bobby. He’s only in the film for a handful of scenes, but in those moments we see a man who sacrificed his own spot in music history to babysit his drug-addled little brother. 
 
 And again, with Cooper inviting us into these worlds, we’re right there alongside Ally and Jackson, swooning and despairing as their relationship burns across the screen. 
 
 As a singer, Gaga has proven herself adept at reinventing herself with each new album. But as an actress, she’s a complete revelation. 
 
 Here, Gaga, who won a Golden Globe for American Horror Story: Hotel, sheds her pop star persona to give us an Ally whom, when we first meet, has abandoned her dreams. As she becomes more successful, and falls deeper in love with Jackson, we want so desperately for her to have the happily ever after that’s eluded so many of the other characters we encounter. 
 
 Ally is a character we can believe in and Gaga’s performance is certain to earn her some awards love by the year’s end. 
 
 Likewise, Cooper, who has elevated his acting game before, completely transforms himself slipping into the role of Jackson. With a backing band that’s made up of Lukas Nelson & the Promise of the Real, he gives us bits of a back story that let us see why the character, even under the dizzying spell of love, is intent on hitting rock bottom. 
 
 The main story points from previous versions of A Star Is Born stay intact, but Cooper has created something fresh and wholly original that makes it stand apart. 
 
 His rendition soars to dazzling new heights, plucking different emotional strings. Still, the tragic punch leaves you speechless as the credits role. 
 
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 mdaniell@postmedia.com ||||| Lady Gaga has traveled by egg, donned skirt steak and taken part in a TV blood orgy. But her biggest transformation occurs in the new film “A Star Is Born.” In it, she becomes an Oscar-worthy actress. 
 
 Taking on the classic part of a talented unknown who rises to music superstardom — the iconic role that Janet Gaynor, Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand played before her — Gaga proves her acting chops by trading in flash for humanity. 
 
 You won’t believe she’s the same person who once sang the lyric “I wanna take a ride on your disco stick.” And you will be downright shocked that this electrifying film is the third remake of “A Star Is Born.” 
 
 The previous rehash of the 1937 original was the chintzy, critically loathed 1976 version starring a soupy Streisand. Garland and Gaynor’s earlier turns are classic, but oversized by today’s standards. 
 
 Gaga, however, shows brilliant restraint. And for Mother Monster, subtlety is a huge achievement. 
 
 She plays Ally, a waitress at a high-end restaurant who hates her job and is frustrated with her stagnant life. Ally’s passion is singing, which she gets to do at a local drag bar at night. 
 
 During one fortuitous set, famous rocker Jackson Maine (Bradley Cooper) stumbles in drunk. On the hunt for another bottle, he ends up transfixed by Ally’s rendition of “La Vie En Rose” and the pair stay up all night, flirting. 
 
 Jackson flies her out to his concert the next day and she unexpectedly croons an original song with him onstage. The moment becomes a viral YouTube sensation and a whirlwind romance begins, propelled by a true love of their art, but scarred by easy access to booze and hard drugs. Ally is caught in a bad romance as Jackson succumbs to addiction. 
 
 The stripped-down, makeup-free Gaga has chemistry with the equally unrecognizable Cooper. The actor is perfectly charming, and tortured, as Jackson — the affable sort of musician who could always use a shower. Jackson struggles as Ally ascends, and the disintegration of their once-innocent relationship is devastating to watch. Bring the tissues. 
 
 Cooper’s voice is strong, too, and you believe that a few million people might actually buy this guy’s CD. He and Gaga sing many original numbers written for the film. They range from soothing barstool ballads to clubby pop tunes, but are united by their genuine feel. They don’t sound like movie music. 
 
 “A Star Is Born” also marks Cooper’s first movie as director. Virgin filmmakers tend to either overdo it with weird techniques or go textbook basic. But Cooper delivers his gutsy style with the confidence of a veteran, juxtaposing high-octane, quick-cut concerts with long, pale shots of the couple’s home life. 
 
 Most thrilling are the stage sequences. Cooper often films Ally’s thousands of screaming fans from her point of view — putting us in her lucky shoes for a minute. 
 
 It’s that feeling of exhilaration that makes “A Star Is Born” the best film of the year so far.
– The first trailer for the latest remake of Hollywood classic A Star Is Born, starring Lady Gaga as the singer discovered by Bradley Cooper's fading country music star, was released Wednesday and the internet approves. Twitter was going nuts for the trailer—Katy Perry, for example, simply tweeted, "IM SCREAMINGOSBEJRMF$&2@!K." Media outlets are calling Gaga "unrecognizable" in the trailer; the New York Times went with the headline, "Yes, That Really Is Lady Gaga in the Trailer for A Star Is Born." The film, out Oct. 5, is Gaga's feature film debut and Cooper's directorial debut, Consequence of Sound reports. The soundtrack features all original music written by Gaga alongside Cooper and other musicians including Lukas Nelson, Jason Isbell, and Mark Ronson.