Film
Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling
Double Feature
Thu, Feb 21, 2013
- 7:15PM
LOCATION:
Peter Jay Sharp Building
BAM Rose Cinemas
RUN TIME: 97min
RATED: R
FORMAT: 35mm
GENERAL ADMISSION: $13
BAM CINEMA CLUB MEMBERS: $8
STUDENTS/SENIORS:
$9 (Students 29 and under with a valid ID, Mon—Thu)
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Intro by Hilton Als
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February 2013
Thursday February 21, 2013
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Part of
BAMcinématek
series A Pryor Engagement
Directed by Richard Pryor | 1986
With Richard Pryor, Debbie Allen, Art Evans, Fay Hauser, Barbara Williams
Pryor’s raw, black underclass answer to the filmed autobiography. Recovering from third-degree burns, superstar comic Jo Jo Dancer (Pryor) looks back on growing up in a small-town bordello, working his way through the lower echelons of the nightclub circuit (enacting Pryor’s great “Mafia club” routine), and finally getting swallowed up by the LA drug scene. Any resemblance to Pryor is, of course, purely coincidental.
Ticketing
Double Feature
2 for 1 Admission
1 ticket to Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling (7:15pm) or Richard Pryor: Here and Now (5:30pm, 9:30pm) gets you into both films.
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Intro by Hilton Als
Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling will be introduced by Hilton Als, author and theater critic at The New Yorker.