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F|f: Mr. Warmth, The Don Rickles Project (John Landis, 2007)

24 October 2007

Veteran Landis cuts together a concert film / television history / talking-heads documentary, as much about the twilight of Sinatra’s Las Vegas as the continuing brilliance of its last star, Don Rickles. Hilarious and indispensable. The Q&A with Rickles, Landis, and critic Kent Jones was the highlight of the NYFF.

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Mr. Warmth, The Don Rickles Project ~ cine Tom Clancey; edit Mark L. Levine; with Rickles, Dave Attell, Ernest Borgnine, Roger Corman, Robert De Niro, Clint Eastwood, Larry King, Bob Newhart, Regis Philbin, Sidney Poitier, Martin Scorsese, et. al. ~ screened at the 45th New York Film Festival; airing on HBO beginning December 2.