Call Me Lucky Trailer: Bobcat Goldthwait Goes For True Dark Comedy ~ Cinenus

Thursday, 16 July 2015

Call Me Lucky Trailer: Bobcat Goldthwait Goes For True Dark Comedy

How fitting that the trailer for Call Me Lucky arrives this week with a blurb from Judd Apatow (“Riveting, Inspiring and Funny”), who has his own movie out this week. Are any theaters going to play this before Trainwreck? Because that would be awesome. It would be unusual for any film by Bobcat Goldthwait to be marketed to the mainstream like that, but this one is a documentary. Apatow does love documentaries; I doubt, however, the majority of his audience does. Even if it stars Patton Oswalt, David Cross, Marc Maron and other comedy stars.

Call Me Lucky also stars Barry Crimmins. In fact, it’s about him. If you aren’t familiar with Crimmins, he’s a highly influential stand-up comedian, satirist and club owner, best known around the Boston scene. He’s quite esteemed by his peers and followers, as can be seen in the typical biographical documentary praises heard from interviewees in the trailer. He also, as you may learn from this spot, was instrumental in calling attention to and curbing child pornography on the internet in the early days of the web, a mission that was quite personal given his own childhood experiences of abuse. This says a lot, but Crimmins seems to be the most darkly complicated hero Goldthwait has ever worked with.

We’ve been dying to see this doc since Sundance, when Neil included it in a spotlight on the festival’s nonfiction films dealing with funny people — and the combination of misery and comedy (the others being Misery Love Comedy and Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead), but he hadn’t actually seen Call Me Lucky yet. He mostly took Drew McWeeny’s word for it. As will others who buy into review quotes in trailers, as McWeeny joins Apatow for this (“A Truly Beautiful Human Document”).

So does Jason Gorber of Twitch (“One of the Most Powerful and Moving Documentaries of the Year”), who also got Goldthwait to share his list of favorite documentaries over at our sister site, Nonfics. There, Gorber adds to the praise: “It’s a touching, extremely effective documentary … further demonstrating Goldthwait’s craft as a most keenly refined social observer and a refined filmmaker.”

Call me Lucky hits theaters on August 7th.

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