Richard Pryor: Live in Concert

Richard Pryor: Live in Concert is a 1979 American stand-up comedy film starring Richard Pryor and directed by Jeff Margolis. 
==Production==
The film was shot at the Terrace Theatre in Long Beach, California on December 10, 1978. It was produced and distributed independently, and was the first full-length feature movie consisting of only stand-up comedy.Comedy gold: Richard Pryor Live in Concert | Stage | The Guardian The double album Wanted: Live in Concert was recorded at other dates during the same tour, and features much of the same material included in the film.
==Accolades==
Recipient(s) 	Award 	Category 	Result	
Richard Pryor	National Society of Film Critics	Best Actor (5th place)(tied with Klaus Kinski for Nosferatu the Vampyre and Roy Scheider for All That Jazz)	 	National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA (1980) - IMDb
==Reception and legacy==
In her review of Richard Pryor Live in Concert, Pauline Kael commented, "Probably the greatest of all recorded-performance films. Pryor had characters and voices bursting out of him .... Watching this mysteriously original physical comedian you can't account for his gift and everything he does seems to be for the first time." Eddie Murphy has called it "the single greatest stand-up performance ever captured on film."This is a quote from the "Eddie Murphy & Byron Allen interview", an extra on the DVD version of Eddie Murphy Delirious.
In 2021, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
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Category:1979 films
Category:1979 comedy films
Category:American comedy films
Category:English-language films
Category:Films set in Long Beach, California
Category:Stand-up comedy concert films
Category:Richard Pryor
Category:United States National Film Registry films