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Jul 17, 2020 · Movies. The Lenny Bruce Performance Film. By Richard Brody. July 17, 2020. Lenny Bruce’s performances—such as this, his penultimate one, from 1965, in San Francisco—reflect, in wild comedy,...
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Lenny Bruce's second-to-last show is captured in this film version of his live performance in San Francisco. Filmed after a lengthy and costly trial in which Bruce was charged with...
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Sep 10, 2012 · The Bruce trademark of a whiplash wit packaged in scatological and scaldingly accurate language is in abundant evidence, even if delivered in a diction akin to Joe Strummer on speed with his jaws...
Fosse’s attempt to give us Lenny Bruce as society’s victim and a martyr to noble causes never quite works, and so the movie becomes just several good scenes and a fine Hoffman performance, not a persuasive portrait of a man.
Those seeking proof of the much-vaunted brilliance of the highly influential nightclub comic Lenny Bruce will probably be disappointed by Lenny Bruce: Performance Film. Shot in grainy black-and-white, this film was made at the tail end of Lenny's career, shortly before his death in 1966.
Comedy. Iconoclast Lenny Bruce appears at San Francisco's Basin Street West in what was his next-to-last live appearance. His act that night consisted of reading allegations...
Lenny Bruce. Writer. Iconoclast Lenny Bruce appears at San Francisco's Basin Street West in what was his next-to-last live appearance. His act that night consisted of reading allegations and transcripts from one of his several obscenity trials and then commenting on what he'd actually done or said.
