Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis
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DVD Details
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 22, 2013
- Originally Released: 2011
- Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Directed by | Gregg Barson |
Entertainment Reviews:
The old clips are still a hoot, but there's a limit to how much compressed air a viewer can take, listening to a bunch of old men talk about how funny their friend was.
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Washington Post
Rating: 3/4 --
It's enough to convince you that Woody Harrelson is right: If you don't appreciate Jerry Lewis, I don't want to hang with you.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Barson has made a doc too narrow in scope, with about as much substance as a meringue pie in the face.
Variety
The weakness of this documentary is that it doesn't give us Mr. Lewis, warts and all.
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New York Times
Strong too is a desire to praise him by fellow comedians, who may have regarded the making of this film as a chance to pay tribute while the object of their admiration was fully able to appreciate it.
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Wall Street Journal
Barson's documentary is as much a celebration as it is a study of this long career in comedy
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Rating: 4/5 --
If you don't like the comic artistry of Jerry Lewis, Encore's extensive new bio-documentary isn't going to change your mind. But you might come away with at least a bit more appreciation.
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New York Daily News
Product Description:
He is one of the most controversial filmmakers alive - at once praised by the French as a genius and an auteur, eschewed by American critics who dismiss his comedy as "low-brow," acknowledged by observers for his decades of philanthropic work with the Muscular Dystrophy Association, and notorious on both sides of the Atlantic for his on-set perfectionism and his insistence on traveling to vast lengths to get scenes, performances and gags right. He's also, unsurprisingly, as complex and multifaceted as anyone in the entertainment industry. But what is the truth about Jerry Lewis, that belies this series of contradictions' In this documentary profile of the entertainer, director Gregg Barson sets out to answer that question via candid interviews with the subject himself, plus insights by contemporaries including Phyllis Diller, Jerry Seinfeld and Billy Crystal.
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