Film Screening:

Richard Pryor: Love on the Sunset Strip
            shown with the short film,
                Melancholy Dame
 

-- This screening is presented in conjunction with the Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist exhibition at the Nasher Museum of Art

Richard Pryor: Live On the Sunset Strip
(Joe Layton, 1982, 82 min, USA, in English, Color, DVD, RATED R).

In one of comedian Richard Pryor's best and most financially lucrative live performances caught on film, the comedian talks frankly about most of his standard subjects, including racism and the differences between blacks and whites, along with talking about some of his recent film roles. Just recovered from his notorious free-basing accident, Richard Pryor made a notable return in the much-acclaimed Live on the Sunset Strip. His comments on that event, as well as his notorious comments on sex, politics and race, pepper the 82-minute concert film. 

"There will always only ever be one Richard Pryor, and his profoundly inspired performance shows exactly why." - Daily Radar.

The Melancholy Dame
(Arvid E. Gillstrom, 1929, 21 min, USA, in English, B/W, DVD)

This early Black comedy features Edward Thompson and Evelyn Preer, a husband and wife comedy team in real life, and Spencer Williams (Andy of Amos & Andy) and Roberta Hyson in a comedy of errors.

A nightclub owner's wife, jealous of his attentions to his star singer, schemes to get her fired.

Cost: Free and Open to the Public

Sponsors: The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University and the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI)