Belushi

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Belushi

Using previously unheard audiotapes recorded shortly after John Belushi’s death, director R.J. Cutler’s documentary examines the too-short life of the once-in-a-generation talent who captured the hearts and funny bones of devoted audiences.

This fall, the Jacob Burns Film Center is honored to welcome documentarian R.J. Cutler. Before preview screenings of his acclaimed new films Martha and Elton John: Never Too Late, catch our one-night-only screenings of his prior films Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry, Belushi, and The September Issue.

"Cutler’s documentary skip-walks a fine line between a great, unstable talent’s rise and fall, and between the un-tender trap of addiction and the joyous energy of a Chicago-bred giant."
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
'Home movie footage shot by Judy during a period of Belushi's sobriety at the couple's summer home in Martha's Vineyard provides a poignant glimpse of the normal life he could have lived. That his early loss left so much potentially great work undone makes the documentary as much elegy as tribute.'
Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter


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