Steve Martin may be riding high on his success with comedy-crime series Only Murders in the Building but, in a new documentary, he reflects on some troughs in his long career as well as the many high points.
The comedian – who got his big break as a writer on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, became one of the all-time most popular hosts of Saturday Night Live and went on to huge success with movies including The Man with Two Brains, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Roxanne and LA Story – is the subject of the two-part documentary Steve! (Martin), directed by Oscar winner Morgan Neville, which premieres on Apple March 29.
The doc includes an angst-inducing clip from 1996 when Martin was ambushed at the premiere of Sgt Bilko, one of his least successful movies, by the British red-carpet disruptor Dennis Pennis, played by comedian Paul Kaye. Footage, which went viral at the time, showed...
The comedian – who got his big break as a writer on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, became one of the all-time most popular hosts of Saturday Night Live and went on to huge success with movies including The Man with Two Brains, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Roxanne and LA Story – is the subject of the two-part documentary Steve! (Martin), directed by Oscar winner Morgan Neville, which premieres on Apple March 29.
The doc includes an angst-inducing clip from 1996 when Martin was ambushed at the premiere of Sgt Bilko, one of his least successful movies, by the British red-carpet disruptor Dennis Pennis, played by comedian Paul Kaye. Footage, which went viral at the time, showed...
- 3/23/2024
- by Caroline Frost
- Deadline Film + TV
Jerry Seinfeld calls him ‘the most idolised comedian ever’. Yet after five decades at the top, success still makes him cringe. He discusses doubting himself, starring in a documentary – and that Dennis Pennis encounter
I didn’t expect Steve Martin to be funny. Sure, it was his skewwhiff sensibility that made The Jerk, The Man With Two Brains, LA Story and Bowfinger so deliriously inspired. And he was comedy’s first double-platinum-record-selling, stadium-touring megastar; he began wearing a white suit on stage only so that he could be seen by fans in the cheap seats several postcodes away. He crafted riotous slapstick crescendos in All of Me and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and displayed a literary flair even at his silliest. No one who has seen Roxanne, the modern-day interpretation of Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac that found Martin investing his comedy with emotional weight for the first time, will...
I didn’t expect Steve Martin to be funny. Sure, it was his skewwhiff sensibility that made The Jerk, The Man With Two Brains, LA Story and Bowfinger so deliriously inspired. And he was comedy’s first double-platinum-record-selling, stadium-touring megastar; he began wearing a white suit on stage only so that he could be seen by fans in the cheap seats several postcodes away. He crafted riotous slapstick crescendos in All of Me and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and displayed a literary flair even at his silliest. No one who has seen Roxanne, the modern-day interpretation of Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac that found Martin investing his comedy with emotional weight for the first time, will...
- 3/22/2024
- by Ryan Gilbey
- The Guardian - Film News
In a year that has offered a number of strong female performances and ensemble casts, this year’s Cannes Film Festival might have finally found a powerhouse best actor-award frontrunner in “At War” lead Vincent Lindon.
The only hitch? Lindon’s main competitor could be the memory of another performance of his.
The French star won the festival’s Best Actor prize for 2015’s similar “The Measure of a Man,” a semi-improvised social drama that teamed him with director Stéphane Brizé and troupe of non-professional thespians playing version of themselves in order to explore questions of class and economic displacement.
“At War” does the more or less the same thing — and like that previous entry, it achieves the same powerful, if somewhat self-limiting, results.
Also Read: Cannes Report, Day 8: Andrew Garfield's New Movie Divides, But Critics Unanimous About John Travolta's 'Gotti'
Lindon plays Laurent, a...
The only hitch? Lindon’s main competitor could be the memory of another performance of his.
The French star won the festival’s Best Actor prize for 2015’s similar “The Measure of a Man,” a semi-improvised social drama that teamed him with director Stéphane Brizé and troupe of non-professional thespians playing version of themselves in order to explore questions of class and economic displacement.
“At War” does the more or less the same thing — and like that previous entry, it achieves the same powerful, if somewhat self-limiting, results.
Also Read: Cannes Report, Day 8: Andrew Garfield's New Movie Divides, But Critics Unanimous About John Travolta's 'Gotti'
Lindon plays Laurent, a...
- 5/16/2018
- by Ben Croll
- The Wrap
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