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Lily Tomlin: the Film Behind the Show
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Lily Tomlin: the Film Behind the Show
IDFA 1998

Lily Tomlin: the Film Behind the Show

Nick Broomfield, Joan Churchill
England, United States
1986
91 min
Festival history

Lily Tomlin is the dark-haired, lanky actress with the broad grin, who featured in films by Robert Altman (in SHORT CUTS, she plays Tom Waits‘s wife), and in Hollywood comedies from the early eighties like NINE TO FIVE and ALL OF ME. In the United States, Tomlin was also successful as a comedienne in the seventies and eighties. In 1985, Broomfield filmed the preparations for her prospective hit show . The documentary begins with images of a public workshop presentation in Austin, Texas and ends with the première of the show on Broadway, in September 1985. The film is an entertaining account of a creative process and also contains clips from Tomlin‘s earlier one-woman shows.

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    Churchill Films
    Churchill Films
Screening copy
    Lafayette Film
    Lafayette Film