Trust Us, This Is All Made Up (2009), Touch the Sound (2004), Herbie Hancock: Possibilities (2006), We Are Freestyle Love Supreme (2020), Game Change (2012), Don't Think Twice (2016), The Aristocrats (2005) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Improvisation movies.
Storyline: Given the flawless results, it's hard to believe that comedians David Pasquesi and T.J. Jagodowski make up their entire act on the spot. This documentary records one of the long-running improv duo's hilarious performances at New York City's Barrow Street Theatre. The film also goes behind the scenes as the pair strategizes for that night's act, discusses the nuances of their creative partnership and reflects on their training at Chicago's The Second City improv troupe.
Plot Keywords: performer, comedian, partner, hilarious, quirky, fascinating, new york city ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: While still a student, Evelyn Glennie learned that she was going deaf. Rather than abandon her study of music, in which she had shown such talent, she instead turned her focus toward percussion instruments and developed her ability to feel the sound through her body. This documentary follows her as she performs in New York, Germany and Tokyo, sharing her insights into the nature of music and the ways in which we experience it.—Jean-Marc Rocher <rocher@fiberbit.net>
Plot Keywords: deaf woman, musician, guitarist, dreamy, uplifting, japan, scotland ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: "Possibilities" is an intimate documentary about Herbie Hancock and his in-studio collaborations with a dozen formidable pop recording artists, collaborations that explore the unexpected, like jazz improvisations. The film is also about how Herbie's unique world view shapes a creative environment that encourages artists to step outside the velvet prison of easy expectations. "The hip stuff," Herbie tells Trey Anastasio, in a scene from the film, "is outside the comfort zone." "Possibilities" follows Herbie over a year and a half collaborating with musical icons Carlos Santana, Sting, Angelique Kidjo, Annie Lennox and Paul Simon, young superstars Christina Aguilera, John Mayer, Trey Anastasio and Jonny Lang and newcomers Joss Stone, Raul Midon, Damien Rice and Lisa Hannigan. The film also puts Herbie's latest work in the context of his extraordinary musical career, and includes rarely seen archival footage of Herbie with the Miles Davis Quintet in 1962; Herbie leading his Headhunters with their hit tune, "Chameleon"; Herbie's classic video for "Rockit"; and never-before-seen duets of Herbie and Wayne Shorter playing for peace in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 2005 on the 60th anniversary of the atomic explosions.—Max Whiteside <RavenWerkheiserHexorcist>
Plot Keywords: musician, cool, confident, creative, recording studio, music, jazz ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Lin-Manuel Miranda Hamilton's improvisation hip-hop group, Freestyle Love Supreme and their reunion performances in New York City in 2019.
Plot Keywords: performer, group leader, entertainer, amusing, heartwarming, playful, quirky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Gov. Sarah Palin (Julianne Moore) of Alaska becomes Sen. John McCain's (Ed Harris) running mate in the 2008 presidential election.
Plot Keywords: politician, family member, reporter, daughter, voter, brash, confident ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: JACK (Keegan Michael Key) & his girlfriend Samantha (Gillian Jacobs) are a perfect couple who are also Teammates on a popular improv group that perform at a struggling comedy spot in NYC. Together, the team has a family like bond but individually they have their personal dreams of being on the weekly television show "This Weekend Live".
Plot Keywords: young man, girlfriend, teammate, friend, airy, amusing, witty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Comedy veterans and co-creators Penn Jillette and Paul Provenza capitalize on their insider status and invite over 100 of their closest friends--who happen to be some of the biggest names in entertainment, from George Carlin, Whoopi Goldberg and Drew Carey to Gilbert Gottfried, Bob Saget, Paul Reiser and Sarah Silverman--to reminisce, analyze, deconstruct and deliver their own versions of the world's dirtiest joke, an old burlesque too extreme to be performed in public, called "The Aristocrats."—Sujit R. Varma
Plot Keywords: comedian, performer, actor, writer, hilarious, witty, disturbing ...
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