"The Day the Clown Cried" finally may have a release date -
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Intermittent Denial of Service attack is causing downtime. Looks like a kiddie 5 min rental. Waiting on a response from upstream.
In a post-Producers/post-Danger 5/post-"Hitler as punchline" world, this movie really has be something to live up to the decades of secrecy and embarassment.
I'd watch it.
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It's probably nowhere near the worst Jerry Lewis movie.
"With most of these kinds of things, you find that the anticipation, or the concept, is better than the thing itself. But seeing this film was really awe-inspiring, in that you are rarely in the presence of a perfect object. This was a perfect object. This movie is so drastically wrong, its pathos and its comedy are so wildly misplaced, that you could not, in your fantasy of what it might be like, improve on what it really is. "Oh My God!" — that's all you can say."
- Harry Shearer, one of the lucky few (or cursed) to see the film
Patton Oswalt also devotes a chapter to it in his memoir, Silver Screen Fiend, when he and other comedians would do love readings of the screenplay. He, too, believes it is a thing to behold.
Also, here's the screenplay.
I'm happy to see that this is happening - we're finally going to get a film that's the stuff of legends released to the public.
But that won't be for another decade, so there's not much to say until then.
https://books.google.com/books?id=b...ItObrtM6yxwIVjZeICh2vnQa7#v=onepage&q&f=false
Here's the Spy Magazine article that Harry Shearer was interviewed for; it contains all the info you need about the film.
But that won't be for another decade, so there's not much to say until then.
https://books.google.com/books?id=b...ItObrtM6yxwIVjZeICh2vnQa7#v=onepage&q&f=false
Here's the Spy Magazine article that Harry Shearer was interviewed for; it contains all the info you need about the film.
(Once again, I'm mildly surprised by the reminder that Jerry Lewis is still alive!)
Anachronistic subject matter aside, damned if everything we know about that movie doesn't seem like it belongs to 1927, when sound film was completely new and nobody knew what they were doing - certainly not 1972. Speaking generally, it's hard to shake the feeling that Jerry Lewis never really figured out how to be a filmmaker and kept trying to site his character onstage, but in the absence of live audience feedback and surrounded by sycophants, he just crawled up his butt and metastazised. As the apotheosis of a certain species of cringe, how can one help but have expectations for The Day the Clown Cried?
Anachronistic subject matter aside, damned if everything we know about that movie doesn't seem like it belongs to 1927, when sound film was completely new and nobody knew what they were doing - certainly not 1972. Speaking generally, it's hard to shake the feeling that Jerry Lewis never really figured out how to be a filmmaker and kept trying to site his character onstage, but in the absence of live audience feedback and surrounded by sycophants, he just crawled up his butt and metastazised. As the apotheosis of a certain species of cringe, how can one help but have expectations for The Day the Clown Cried?
@flossman ? @Frank Rizzo ? Your people need you.
I need this film in my life.
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I'd be down for it if flossman is.
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Sure. Always good for a change of pace. I can actually do a good Jerry Lewis.
Yeah but I think this was supposed to be a serious movie? It might be like Life is Beautiful but just really missing the mark.
Yes, it was, and it's a large part of why Jerry Lewis didn't want it released.
Didn't the French really like his movies? Not that that explains anything, really, but...
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