| Richard Pryor: Live in Concert | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Directed by | Jeff Margolis[1] |
| Written by | Richard Pryor |
| Produced by | Stephen Blauner Hillard Elkins Del Jack William Sargent Jr. J. Mark Travis |
| Starring | Richard Pryor |
| Cinematography | Tom Schamp |
| Edited by | Daniel J. Johnson Ken Johnson Steve Livingston |
| Music by | Patti LaBelle |
Production companies | Elkins Entertainment SEE Theater Network |
| Distributed by | Special Event Entertainment |
Release date | January 1979 |
Running time | 78 minutes[1] |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $750,000[2] |
| Box office | $15.8 million[3] |
Richard Pryor: Live in Concert is a 1979 American stand-up comedy film starring Richard Pryor and directed by Jeff Margolis.[1]
Production
The film was shot at the Terrace Theatre 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.[4] 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.
Accolades
| Recipient(s) | Award | Category | Result | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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) |
Nominated | [5] |
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."[6] Eddie Murphy has called it "the single greatest stand-up performance ever captured on film."[7]
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".[8]
References
- 1 2 3 4 Maslin, Janet (February 16, 1979). "Richard Pryor Live in Concert (1979) Film: 'Pryor in Concert':Mime and Mimic". The New York Times.
- ↑ David Permut: By Permut Only Movieline Staff (December 1, 1992). "Richard Pryor: Live in Concert". p. 2.
- ↑ Richard Pryor: Live in Concert, Worldwide Box Office. Worldwide Box Office. Retrieved October 7, 2017.
- ↑ Comedy gold: Richard Pryor Live in Concert | Stage | The Guardian
- ↑ National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA (1980) - IMDb
- ↑ Kael, Pauline (1991). 5001 Nights at the Movies. New York: Henry Holt and Company. p. 628. ISBN 978-0-8050-1367-2.
- ↑ This is a quote from the "Eddie Murphy & Byron Allen interview", an extra on the DVD version of Eddie Murphy Delirious.
- ↑ Tartaglione, Nancy (December 14, 2021). "National Film Registry Adds Return Of The Jedi, Fellowship Of The Ring, Strangers On A Train, Sounder, WALL-E & More". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved December 14, 2021.