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Iconoclast Lenny Bruce appears at San Francisco's Basin Street West in what was his next-to-last live appearance...
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(in credits order) | Lenny Bruce | ... | Himself |
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| John Magnuson | |||
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| Ken Chaney | .... | production team | |
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| Bob Hovorka | .... | production team | |
| Dan McCann | .... | production team | |
| Rick Smith | .... | production team | |
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- Danton Films (1975) (Canada) (theatrical)
- Filmmakers Distribution Center
- Image Entertainment (1992) (USA) (video) (laserdisc)
- Koch Entertainment (2005) (USA) (DVD)
- Koch Vision (2005) (USA) (DVD)
- Rhino Home Video (1992) (USA) (VHS)
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"The Lenny Bruce Performance Film" - USA (promotional title)
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I remember watching Fosse's biopic, Lenny, and seeing Hoffman's portrayal of the performance documented on this video, and thinking, how sad, that he went from such brilliance to such self-indulgent, self-serving self-defense. I didn't realize until I started watching the video that this was a recording of THAT performance, and it was interesting to watch from that historical perspective. But taken by itself it's more sad than funny. A great comedian, orator, commentator, oh, hell, just the great Lenny reduced to stumbling through court transcripts and embarrassingly trying to remember bits that he did years before. It's disjointed and often makes little sense; ironically, exactly the charges he levels at the "peace officer" assigned to "recreate" his act for the court and the transcripts made from an inaudible recording of one of his shows. Rent this one for a sense of perspective...as an example of Bruce's work, his art, it's a poor specimen, and will have you alternately feeling sorry for him and annoyed by him more than it will make you laugh or think; and those were the two things that, in his prime, Lenny made us do best.