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Jo Jo Dancer, your life is calling / Columbia Pictures presents ; written by Rocoo Urbisci & Paul Mooney & Richard Pryor ; produced and directed by Richard Pryor.
LIBRA BLU RAY PN1995.9.C55 .J656 2025 disc + insert
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 1247.
- Criterion collection ; 1247
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American comedians--Drama.
- African American comedians.
- Fame--Drama.
- Fame.
- Accidents--Drama.
- Accidents.
- Genre:
- Biographical films.
- Fiction films.
- Feature films.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Comedy films.
- Dark comedy films.
- Blu-ray discs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + insert (1 folded leaf : color illustrations ; 15 cm)
- 4 3/4 in.
- stamping
- polychrome
- color
- Edition:
- Blu-ray special edition.
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2025]
- Language Note:
- English dialogue.
- System Details:
- Blu-ray, Region A; widescreen (2.39:1) presentation; DTS-HD master audio 2.0 surround ; requires Blu-ray player.
- digital
- optical
- surround
- DTS-HD Master Audio
- 2.39:1
- HDTV
- video file
- Blu-ray
- region A
- Summary:
- One of the greatest comedians of all time, Richard Pryor gets raw and real in this brutally funny and lacerating self-portrait. Following the notorious incident in which he caught on fire while high on cocaine, nearly losing his life, Pryor exorcised his inner demons by writing, producing, directing, and starring in this dizzying hall-of-mirrors biopic and backstage drama, which traces a young comedian's rise to fame, from his childhood growing up in a brothel to the colorful experiences that shaped his edgy comic voice to the addiction struggles that brought him to the brink of death. As he did in his legendary stand-up sets, here Pryor fearlessly turns his soul inside out, revealing the deep vulnerability that made his art so compelling.
- Participant:
- Richard Pryor, Paula Kelly, Debbie Allen, Carmen McRae, Wings Hauser, Faye Hauser, Barbara Williams, J.J. Barry, Marlene Warfield, E'lon Cox.
- Credits:
- Music, Herbie Hancock ; director of photography, John A. Alonzo ; editor, Donn Cambern.
- Notes:
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1986.
- Wide screen 2.39:1 aspect ratio.
- Special features: New 4K digital restoration, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack ; New interview on the film with filmmaker Robert Townsend ; Interview with director Richard Pryor from a 1985 episode of The Dick Cavett Show.
- For private home use only.
- ISBN:
- 9798886072341
- 0715515308113
- OCLC:
- 1470981614
- Publisher Number:
- 715515308113
- 00715515308113 gtin-14
- CC3637BD The Criterion Collection
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