Starting TONIGHT: Richard Pryor Retrospective At BAM, NYC (10 Days, 20 Films, All in 35mm)

From Shadow and Act Sat Feb 9 2013, 02:17:26

Despite the blizzard that's blanketing the city this weekend, here's a reminder for New Yorkers. We posted this in December. Here it is again via press release from BAMcinématek: FEB 8-13, 17, & 19-21 (10 Days, 20 Films, All in 35mm) A PRYOR ENGAGEMENT Weekday double features! "A master of lyrical obscenity. Richard Pryor is the only great poet satirist among our comedians."-Pauline Kael, The New Yorker A major influence on such contemporary comedians as Louis C.K., Chris Rock, Lewis Black, and countless others, the wild and wired Richard Pryor emerged from the Midwestern Chitlin circuit, became a successful...

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