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The primary trailer and poster for the brand new Liza Minnelli documentary, “Liza: A Really Terrific Completely True Story,” has debuted.
The poster contains a pink, white, mild blue and black illustration of a younger Minnelli, together with her signature pixy hair fashion and lengthy eyelashes, by artist Kii Arens.
The trailer opens with Minnelli sitting in a chair and singing a snippet – “Collect round, I’ve a narrative to inform” – of a track from “Cabaret.” It exhibits footage of the EGOT winner all through her greater than 50-year profession, in addition to interviews together with her sister Lorna Luft, the late Chita Rivera, Michael Feinstein and Darren Criss. Ben Vereen is proven tearing up speaking in regards to the legendary entertainer and daughter of Hollywood royalty, Judy Garland and Vincent Minnelli.
Mia Farrow talks about being at Minnelli and David Visitor’s marriage ceremony. “Oh, my god,” she exclaims.
Minnelli herself is seen speaking to the digicam on the finish of the trailer saying, “How fortunate am I to have gone although all the dangerous stuff that I’ve gone by as a result of it ready me for the remainder of my life.”
Kii Arens, courtesy Atlas Media Corp
Written and directed by Bruce David Klein, the movie premiered at this 12 months’s Tribeca Pageant and was additionally screened on the Hamptons Movie Pageant, the Provincetown Movie Pageant and the NewFest LGBTQ+ Movie Pageant. It’s a manufacturing of Atlas Media Corp in collaboration with Zietgeist Movies and Kino Lorber.
“I am thrilled this documentary shares the story of how my artistic voice got here to life with the assistance of my good associates, mentors and collaborators,” Minnelli mentioned in an announcement. “Bruce and his workforce dove deep to discover my relationships with the individuals who actually ‘invented me’ — and I am unable to anticipate film audiences to expertise it!”
The doc additionally contains never-before-seen footage of Minnelli throughout her Nineteen Seventies European tour. “As quickly as we pressed play on the primary reel of footage, we have been blown away,” Klein mentioned. “Proper in entrance of us was this lovely, susceptible celebrity of stage and display on the top of her powers. She was actually the ‘it’ lady of the world at the moment. Even the private scenes of her simply hanging out have been fascinating and revealing. Our workforce actually bought a really feel for who she was and what drove her.”
“Liza: A Really Terrific Completely True Story” opens Jan. 24, 2025 at IFC Middle in New York Metropolis, Jan. 31 at Laemmle’s Royal in Los Angeles and City Middle in Encino, Calif., adopted by a nationwide rollout.
Liza Minnelli Opens Up in First Trailer for New Documentary
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