Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling

“Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling, written and directed by Richard Pryor. If you’re looking for a double feature, I’d strongly suggest pairing it with the Bob Fosse movie All That Jazz. These are two sides of my favorite coins, my favorite genre... Now, I wouldn’t say that this is a perfect film. But it is. It is a perfect film. I’m not sure if you know about the incident that the brilliant Richard Pryor went through, but, well, he made a Fosse-esque extravaganza of it.”

“So I’ve never seen Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling, a Richard Pryor film. And so I’m definitely taking this because, obviously, what a gift of a man and a performer he was. And I can’t wait to see it.”

“This is Jo Dancer, a film by Richard Pryor. And the weird thing about this is that it might not have been the most successful or the most critically acclaimed, for someone who was such a big star, but the way that he views the world is really, really close to the way that my parents and the people around me in my community viewed the world, as kind of a nihilistic, cynical thing, but still looking for light and hope and understanding of who you are.”