The Unknown Jonathan Winters: On the Loose
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Actor: Jonathan WintersDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 60 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-09-05
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Winstar
DVD Reviews of The Unknown Jonathan Winters: On the Loose
DVD Review: Jonathon Winters boulderized (or however you spell it!)
Summary: 4 Stars
An incredibly gifted humorist from Bellbrook, Ohio, Jonathon's most memorable improvisations were a bit on the risque side. Too bad this material has been sanatized to General Audience level, as he was at his funniest in "no holds barred" performance situations. I have a reel to reel tape I got from a fellow admirer of Mr. Winters in the 1960's that is delightfully irreverant and off color. Future generations may never know, with this DVD alone, how truly incandescent he was.DVD Review: Tepid filler with scattered brilliance-better rented than bought
Summary: 3 Stars
They short changed the reason we all get this video: Jonathan's performances. Granted, the docufiller is interesting, but belongs in a section titled "Bonus Feature", or "Bio" rather than fragmenting some entertaining out takes.
Probably didn't want to pay all the royalties to get more performances included...
Recommend as a rental rather than a purchase.
DVD Review: Wanting More
Summary: 4 Stars
Jonathan Winters is probably my all-time favorite comedian! I liked this video but wish it had been longer and that many, many more of his comedy routines had been included. The clips were too scattered and too brief, and it just whetted my appetite for more and was frustrating. Appearances by Andy Williams and Robin Williams didn't add much. I did enjoy learning a little about Winters' personal life over the years, and seeing him as he was a couple years ago. I must say I was very glad to locate ANY video about him, but it would be wonderful if someone could put together a complete set of ALL of his routines! That would be fantastic!DVD Review: A Look into a unusual mind
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a video which is sometimes shown on PBS. It is biographical in nature and truly shows the breadth of his comedy. You'll see Winters as you've probably never seen him before. There is improvisational humor galore and there's also black humor (The Execution). It is very amusing to see the "Straight Men" so totally lost and just enjoying "the master" at work.DVD Review: Winters wonderful, frustrating documentary
Summary: 2 Stars
Jonathan Winters is really a treasure and it is amazing how many people do not know about him. He is clearly Robin Williams's progenitor, starting out in his television career with sound effects and impersonations, but eventually moving into original characters and amazing improvisations, often based on random objects thrown to him.This documentary, however, is constantly teasing the viewer who is eager to watch the master. Seldom does a segment or vignette go uninterrupted by cuts from interviews which are sparse, heavy on adoration and low on information. The subjects of these interviews are limited to Andy Williams, Robin Williams (who seems to have little to say about his hero), and family members who tell few stories. Winters himself makes a statement about his nervous breakdown and hospitalization that is firm and uninformative. There is talk about the work on IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD and MORK AND MINDY but no clips. Even when we watch him at play in public places, the camera holds so closely on him, rarely showing the setting or the people he is catching off-guard, that the spontaneity of what we are witnessing is hidden.
A little of Winters is vastly better than none, but this disappoints as a documentary.
Description of The Unknown Jonathan Winters: On the Loose
An entertaining look at one of the most inventive and influential comic minds of the past half-century.Jonathan Winters, a comedian whose improvisational style began breaking all the rules back in the 1950s, looks back on his long, strange career in this documentary filled with some of his most inspired bits. In a clip from a TV appearance in the early 1960s, Winters enters a room filled with hats ranging from medieval crowns to space helmets. In the course of several minutes he changes hats at a furious pace, and as each hat goes onto his head, Winters also assumes the facial expressions and voice of a new character. It's a very funny and very weird bit that few other comics could pull off. Robin Williams, who has always been lavish in his praise of Winters, appears in typically manic interview segments to comment on him as a performer. Winters's wife and children also provide their perspective, and Winters provides insight into how he comes up with his bizarre performances and some memories on the ups and downs of his career, which includes a dark period when he checked himself into a mental hospital. The biographical material is interesting, but of course the real gems in this production are the many clips of Winters performing. He is seen morphing into characters on television programs dating back to the early 1950s, and in one odd segment, he improvises routines in the aisles of a hardware store. --Robert J. McNamara
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