Were sorry but jwapp doesnt work properly without javascript enabled. Now in her late 80s, broadway legend elaine stritch remains as ferociously funny as ever. With elaine stritch, tina fey, alec baldwin, james gandolfini. The film looks back over her career and her personal life with tributes from friends and people she has worked with. Elaine stritch and the religion of fun religion news service.
She was inducted into the american theater hall of fame in 1995. Capturing a broadway legend on film com alums documentary shows why elaine stritch is one of a kind for filmmaker chiemi karasawa, the documentary elaine stritch. Elaine stritch was a largerthanlife figure on and off of broadway, combining a renowned stage act with amusing appearances on nbcs 30 rock,i and a persona best described as candid to a fault. Shoot me was 21 years ago when i was doing graduate work at a repertory theater in. Shoot me, an inspiring portrait of a oneofakind survivor. Elaine stritch, the loud, funny and frank star of broadway and hollywood, died at her home in michigan on thursday. Elaine stritch on stage at a white house music series event in 2010. While karasawa gives her space to revisit career highpoints, the film s primary focus is on what its like, having spent ones. Ms stritch moved to michigan, her home town, in 20 and the documentary ended with the lines that ms stritch planned to retire in 2015 or 2016 or 2017 or. Shoot me and the generic title really is the worst thing about the film opens with its subject holding court in a city in which shes recognized on every corner. A brash, incorrigible scenestealer who led a six decade career that had many highs and lows, veteran elaine stritch certainly lived up to the stephen sondheim song im still here.
Elaine stritch and donald sinden in twos company in 1975. Stritch was preparing her cabaret show elaine stritch singin sondheim. A portrait of a veteran entertainer she turned 89 last month by an artist in the infancy of her career, shoot me isnt a standard issue celebrity biopic any more than stritch is a standard issue celebrity. She made her professional stage debut in 1944 and appeared in numerous stage plays, musicals, feature films and television series.
Isotope works with various entities to develop and produce content, campaigns, narrative films and psas. Shoot me official trailer 1 2014 documentary hd what does it mean to be a performing artist first, last and always. Still i doubt anyone will walk out of this film wishing it. Shoot me followed stritch, by then a weathered old woman battling diabetes, as she looked back on a storied career filled with. One song at a time, while coping with diabetes and worsening memory loss. Shoot me, follows the inimitable force of nature that is broadway veteran elaine stritch, and is a shot in the arm of humor, heart and humanity with a jolt of adrenaline just. Shoot me, a documentary by chiemi karasawa, looks at the captivating, funny tony and emmy winner as she approaches. Shoot me, which opened in february to a 98 percent fresh on rotten tomatoes, isnt just a portrait of a beloved entertainer.
John curtisrex features if so, she was perhaps a first lady from the nancy reagan mould. Shoot me movie clip 1 2014 documentary hd what does it mean to be a performing artist first, last and always. Having stolen so many moments on stage that she could be convicted of grand larceny, this tough old broad broached her eighties with the stillshapely legs, puffy. Elaine stritch, volatile and vulnerable in shoot me. Shoot me getting your hair done rarely leads to making a movie. At 87, elaine stritch is still here, dominating the stage in her one woman cabaret act, torturing alec baldwin on 30rock, giving us her take on aging, her struggle. Shoot me reaches beyond the icons brassy exterior and reveals an inspiring portrait of a complex woman and artist. Proudly strutting the new york city streets, in fulllength fur, waving sunglasses in one hand and a coffee cup in the other, stritch is the queen of broadway. Released just months before stritch s death at age 89 in 2014, this tender film from chiemi karasawa captures its hilarious, foulmouthed.
Elaine stritch tina fey alec baldwin cherry jones nathan lane. Elaine stritch gets a starstudded sendoff from the. For stritch devotees and you cant breathe in a new york theater or cabaret haunt without knocking into a clump of them shoot me makes a lovely companion piece to elaine stritch at. Shoot me shows the actress feisty, fragile actress and singer elaine stritch discusses her passions and fears in captivating fashion in a documentary. Shoot me 20 starring elaine stritch and alec baldwin on dvd and bluray. Shoot me is a ferocious, funny and poignant portrait of the oneofakind broadway legend as she reaches her 87th year. Did you hear that alec baldwin has officially signed on as executive producer of our film. Stritch was born in 1925, attended finishing school and then the new. She spoke with nprs scott simon about seeing herself on. The film captures her immeasurable charm, acerbic wit, and impressive accomplishments with candid footage and interviews with friends and collaborators, including sondheim, tina fey, and nathan lane.
Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing elaine stritch. Saul loeb various devices in the film allow karasawa to evoke her subjects long career and history. The 89yearold, tony awardwinning broadway star is the subject of a new documentary, elaine stritch. This showbiz spitfire is very much still here the largerthanlife broadway and tv and film legend bursts off the screen in this loving but uncompromising. The uncompromising tony and emmy awardwinner is showcased both on and off stage via rare archival footage and intimate cinema verite. Shoot me is the experience of being in stritch s company for 80 minutes, and thats fine. Those are among the first words we hear elaine stritch deliver in elaine stritch.
Sparkling with stritch s delightful character, this film is an inspiring portrait of an american treasure. Elaine stritch february 2, 1925 july 17, 2014 was an american actress and singer, known for her work on broadway. But in 2010, filmmaker chiemi cheeemee karasawa leaned over to her hairdresser and, later, associate producer, piet sinthuchai at the vartali salon in midtown manhattan and asked, is that elaine stritch. In this bold, hilarious and poignant portrait, the uncompromising tony.
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