Richard Pryor: Live in Concert
Template:Short description Template:Use American English Template:Main otherScript error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Template:Main other Richard Pryor: Live in Concert is a 1979 American stand-up comedy concert film starring and written by Richard Pryor, and directed by Jeff Margolis.[1]
Production
The film was shot at the Terrace Theater in Long Beach, California[1] on December 10, 1978. It was produced and distributed independently, and was the first full-length feature movie consisting of only stand-up comedy.[2] The double album Wanted: Live in Concert was recorded at other dates during the same tour, and features much of the same material included in the film.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Reception and legacy
In her review of Richard Pryor Live in Concert, Pauline Kael commented, "Probably the greatest of all recorded-performance films. Pryor had characters and voices bursting out of him .... Watching this mysteriously original physical comedian you can't account for his gift and everything he does seems to be for the first time."[3] Eddie Murphy has called it "the single greatest stand-up performance ever captured on film."[4]
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In 2021, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[5]
Accolades
| Recipient(s) | Award | Category | Result | Ref(s) |
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| Richard Pryor | National Society of Film Critics | Best Actor (5th place) (tied with Klaus Kinski for Nosferatu the Vampyre and Roy Scheider for All That Jazz) |
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References
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- ↑ Comedy gold: Richard Pryor Live in Concert | Stage | The Guardian
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- ↑ This is a quote from the "Eddie Murphy & Byron Allen interview", an extra on the DVD version of Eddie Murphy Delirious.
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- ↑ National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA (1980) - IMDb
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- 1979 films
- 1979 comedy films
- African-American comedy films
- American comedy films
- Films set in Long Beach, California
- Films with screenplays by Richard Pryor
- Stand-up comedy specials and films
- United States National Film Registry films
- 1970s English-language films
- 1970s American films
- English-language documentary films