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ACMI Presents Long Play Season of Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
June 22, 2010 11:42
The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) presents a Long Play season of the revealing documentary, 'Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work' (2010) straight from its award winning screenings on the international film festival circuit. The film takes a look at the private and public life of the legendary comedian Joan Rivers, one of the most hilarious and hard working women in show business.
Following Rivers over the course of her 76th year renowned documentarians Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg are given unguarded access to River's life. The film combines intimate scenes and archive footage to offer insight into Rivers' private dramas both past and present. Stripped of her performance masks Rivers lays bare the emotional mix of self-doubt and anger that often fuels her comedic process.
Rivers's story is equally contradictory, mixing brutal honesty with laugh-out-loud humour while exposing the ruthlessness of the entertainment business, the darker side of fame, success and everything you might not know about the first lady of comedy.
The Long Play season of 'Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work' will screen Thursday 9 September - Monday 27 September, 2010.
For more information and session times please visit: www.acmi.net.au
Contact details:
Location: Melbourne (VIC)
Contact: ACMI
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