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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT EAN: 9780792867906 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 0792867904 Label: MGM (Video & DVD) Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD) Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD) Region Code: 1 Release Date: August 23, 2005 Running Time: 89 minutes Studio: MGM (Video & DVD) Theatrical Release Date: May 11, 1990 Sales Rank: 58027 MPN: 1008762 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Description: Sparing no sensibilities, the "bold, inventive and incisively funny" (Rolling Stone) performance artist Sandra Bernhard draws blood in this "heartrending, merciless assault on the phoniness ofentertainment rhetoric" (Roger Ebert). Both "ingenious and unsettling" (The New York Times),her quirky material makes for a wonderfully outrageous and revelatory experience. It is the cabaret act of a nightmare: you sing, dance and tell stories to an utterly apathetic audience. ButSandra Bernhard doesn't know fear, and she tears into a viewer's discomfort with vigor and relish. Stripping herself, body and soul, down to bare essentials, she delivers no less than "an astonishingperformance in this bizarre, funny and prickly satire of pop culture" (The Wall Street Journal). Amazon.com: "You know," she says at the outset, looking straight into the camera," I have one of those hard to believe faces." Whether she's playing herself or any number of other outspoken characters in the film version of her Off-Broadway show, Sandra Bernhard's hard to believe face remains the one constant. First, she's a jazz vocalist, then a stand-up comedian, then a soul singer. Yet she is always Sandra--even if the MC repeatedly introduces her as Sarah--and the stories she tells come mostly from her own life. Other riffs concern such image-obsessed celebrities as Barbra Streisand and Andy Warhol. The musical performances and monologues take place in front of a black nightclub audience that feigns boredom the entire time. Songs include "Me and Mrs. Jones," "Little Red Corvette," and "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" with John Doe in full-on "Rhinestone Cowboy" regalia. The stage bits are intercut with commentary about Bernhard from her manager (Lu Leonard) and actor Steve Antin (The Accused). Then there are the scenes of an attractive black woman walking around LA and the dance numbers featuring Madonna look-alike "Shoshanna." What does it all mean? Well, as Bernhard quips, "My father's a proctologist, my mother's an abstract artist. That's how I view the world." The R-rated Without You I'm Nothing was produced by Nicolas Roeg (who directed Bernhard in Track 29), features an original score by Patrice Rushen, and is (naturally) recommended for mature audiences. --Kathleen C. Fennessy Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Acquired TasteSandra is very much an acquired taste, a love-or-hate entertainer. I have partially acquired that taste, having seen this show on English TV. I managed to track down the DVD, which is unavailable in the UK. If you have never seen the unusual style and act of Sandra, don't bother. If however, you have been intrigued by her unique act, as I was, then this is a 'definitive' must-have. To my mind, it is worth the price for her rendition of the classic ' Me and Mrs Jones ' which is spine-tingling. Rating: - This DVD is crazy!I remember seeing this DVD a long time ago when it was a special on HBO. I recently found it and purchased it. I laughed as much now as I did then. Highly recommended if you like raw, in your face, comedy. Rating:  - Laughing So Hard We Couldn't Breathe!I remember seeing this movie when it first came out. My best friend and I went to an arthouse movie theatre in New York City. I'm not sure even this jaded New York audience was prepared for what they were about to witness. From the first moment, the movie is in your face. You're alarmed. You're thinking, "How am I supposed to react to this? Is this .......funny? offensive? What is this?" Then you laugh and can't stop laughing. Of course my friend and ... Read More Rating: - Hilarious!I have been a Sandra Bernhard fan for a long long time and this is a great DVD. There's a few celebrity mentions, but mostly they are just funny stories, and outrageous performances. I can watch it over and over and laugh every time. She is a one of the best! I loved her "sermon" on feeling the funk. Overall a very entertaining DVD! Lots of dark humor! Rating:  - Odd DuckThis movie is an odd duck. If you watched it in 1990 when it came out then you'd probably think it was funny (like I did) but after buying it in 2006 and watching it again - I could barely sit through it! Sandra's humor is very "New York" and in some ways very sophisticated so if you don't know the name of designer furniture and clothing many of her jokes will go over your head as could many of the jewish and ethnic jokes. If you're into that type of humor then you might find it hysterical. It's ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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