Without You I'm Nothing
by John Boskovich
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Actor: John Doe, Ken Foree, Lu Leonard, Sandra Bernhard, Steve AntinDirector: John Boskovich
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 89 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-08-23
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of Without You I'm Nothing
Movie Review: Acquired Taste
Summary: 4 Stars
Sandra 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.
Summary of Without You I'm Nothing
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 of entertainment 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. But Sandra 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 astonishing performance in this bizarre funny and prickly satire of pop culture" (The Wall Street Journal).System Requirements:Running Time: 89 Min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?COMEDY Rating:?R UPC:?027616927545 Manufacturer No:?1008762"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
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