Presented by Jon Wurster, drummer and comedy writer extraordinaire!
The second you put “real life” on screen it becomes something else entirely.
Decades before reality television reigned supreme, there was Albert Brooks’s debut feature, Real Life, a brilliantly deadpan, stylistically innovative satire about the perils and pitfalls of trying to capture the truth on film. The writer-director plays “Albert Brooks,” a narcissistic Hollywood filmmaker who plans to spend the year in Phoenix embedded with Warren and Jeanette Yeager (Charles Grodin and Frances Lee McCain) and their two children, deploying an arsenal of cutting-edge equipment (including the over-the-head Ettinauer 226XL camera) to capture an American family’s ordinary day-to-day. Chronicling the project’s disastrous fallout, as the meddlesome Albert can’t help getting too close to his subjects, this pioneering mockumentary is more relevant than ever amid today’s media landscape.
Musician/comedy person Jon Wurster has been the drummer for many of alternative rock’s biggest names: Bob Mould, The Mountain Goats, Superchunk, and Robert Pollard, to name just a few. He’s also been making people laugh for over twenty years, calling into The Best Show with Tom Scharpling as a parade of ridiculous and often hilarious characters. Jon credits the first three Albert Brooks films as shaping him as both a comedy writer and as a human being.
Come early to enjoy a Jon Wurster curated set list spun by DJ T.Rex D!
The second you put “real life” on screen it becomes something else entirely.
Decades before reality television reigned supreme, there was Albert Brooks’s debut feature, Real Life, a brilliantly deadpan, stylistically innovative satire about the perils and pitfalls of trying to capture the truth on film. The writer-director plays “Albert Brooks,” a narcissistic Hollywood filmmaker who plans to spend the year in Phoenix embedded with Warren and Jeanette Yeager (Charles Grodin and Frances Lee McCain) and their two children, deploying an arsenal of cutting-edge equipment (including the over-the-head Ettinauer 226XL camera) to capture an American family’s ordinary day-to-day. Chronicling the project’s disastrous fallout, as the meddlesome Albert can’t help getting too close to his subjects, this pioneering mockumentary is more relevant than ever amid today’s media landscape.
Musician/comedy person Jon Wurster has been the drummer for many of alternative rock’s biggest names: Bob Mould, The Mountain Goats, Superchunk, and Robert Pollard, to name just a few. He’s also been making people laugh for over twenty years, calling into The Best Show with Tom Scharpling as a parade of ridiculous and often hilarious characters. Jon credits the first three Albert Brooks films as shaping him as both a comedy writer and as a human being.
Come early to enjoy a Jon Wurster curated set list spun by DJ T.Rex D!
Director: Albert Brooks
Format: Digital
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