Beyond the Canon: Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling + All That Jazz
May 18, 2019 2:00pm
Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling
Dir. Richard Pryor
With Pryor, Debbie Allen, Art Evans
1986, 97min, 35mm
Richard Pryor’s startlingly raw, criminally underseen spin on the filmed autobiography. Recovering from third-degree burns, superstar comic Jo Jo Dancer looks back on growing up in a small-town bordello, working his way through the lower echelons of the nightclub circuit (enacting Pryor’s great “Mafia club” routine), and finally getting swallowed up by the LA drug scene. Any resemblance to Pryor is, of course, purely coincidental.
All That Jazz
Dir. Bob Fosse
With Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Leland Palmer
1979, 123min, DCP
Groundbreaking choreographer Bob Fosse casts a jaundiced eye on his own life and career in this woundingly autobiographical, art-as-exorcism backstage drama. A brilliant Roy Scheider plays the director’s stand-in, a pill-popping, death-haunted showbiz veteran who looks back on his life in a series of audaciously over-the-top, Felliniesque flights of fancy that push the musical form to new heights of psychodramatic excess.
General Admission: $15
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Location
Peter Jay Sharp Building – BAM Rose Cinemas
30 Lafayette Ave.
Brooklyn NY 11217 USA