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To My Great Chagrin: The Unbelievable Story of Brother Theodore (2007) is a English movie. Jeff Sumerel has directed this movie. Woody Allen,Len Belzer,Eric Bogosian,Dick Cavett are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2007. To My Great Chagrin: The Unbelievable Story of Brother Theodore (2007) is considered one of the best Documentary,Comedy movie in India and around the world.
He is considered to be one of the most significant links in the history of comedy, admired by such people as Eric Bogosian and Woody Allen. His television appearances have spanned from Merv Griffin to Dick Cavett to David Letterman. His long-running Off-Broadway show was hailed as "diabolical genius". He is Brother Theodore. A former millionaire playboy in the late1930's of Germany, Theodore endured the sobering loss of his entire family, his fortune, and his own identity, as a survivor of Dachau concentration camp. Shipped to America humiliated and stunned, Theodore yearned to reclaim his high-status and wealth. Continually haunted by his loss, and hindered as a displaced foreigner, he tapped "the power of despair" to re-invent himself, capitalizing on his dark, existential humor - to become one of America's most respected humorists and monologists.
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To My Great Chagrin: The Unbelievable Story of Brother Theodore (2007) Reviews
Record of a dead being...
The late performance artist Theodore Gottlieb, known professionally as Brother Theodore, was an institution in the Greenwich Village art scene for over four decades. His work was unique and no doubt was admired by and influenced the likes of Woody Allen, Eric Bogosian, Spalding Gray, and numberless others, although to pigeonhole him as a mere monologist is to do him a grave injustice. His brand of paranoia, philosophy, schizophrenia, irony, and comedy is inimitable, since it is unthinkable that a man born, in his own words, with "a golden spoon" in his mouth, should lose everything and live to tell the tale in 94 remarkable years. Director Jeff Sumerel spent a few days filming him just months before his death, and added to that excerpts from numerous recorded live performances and acting jobs. I must warn you, Brother Theodore is on camera in every single shot of this doc, and except for the talk show hosts and the odd other actor, nobody else appears. Numerous interviewees are heard but never seen. This is an understandable artistic decision on the director's part, but a bit taxing on the viewer. Chess played a great role in Theodore's life, and several internationally ranked chess masters, myself included, were in the audience at the world premiere at MOMA on Feb. 13, 2008. I was the recipient of a typical rant when he called the Manhattan Chess Club in 1990 to complain in those pre-internet days that we weren't updating our results of the Kasparov-Karpov match fast enough. A day or so later, updates complete, a familiar voice left a two word message on our answering machine, "Thank you."
A brilliant film about a brilliant man
This is a brilliant film about a brilliant man, one Theodore Gottleib, also known for a time as "Brother Theodore." Sumerel has accomplished the impossible, in weaving a mesmerizing tale out of not much surviving footage. Even if you'd never heard of Theodore, you'd find it a riveting profile. And if you're fortunate enough to have either seen him perform, or be exposed to his peculiar genius, you'll learn a great deal about his amazing life. This film, now known as "To My Great Chagrin: The Unbelievable Life of Brother Theodore," should be given a much wider audience. In the meantime, do whatever you must to see it. You'll make the acquaintance of a unique individual whom you'll never forget.