Friday night at the Crosby Street Hotel in New York City, Apple Original Films celebrated the world premiere of the highly anticipated documentary film, “STEVE! (martin) a documentary in 2 pieces,” which premiered globally on Friday, March 29 on Apple TV+. Attendees at the red carpet premiere event included award-winning director and producer Morgan Neville, stars Steve Martin, Selena Gomez and Finn Wittrock, Diane Sawyer, Jimmy Fallon, producers Meghan Walsh and Charlise Holmes, and executive producers Caitrin Rogers and Emily Osborne.
Steve Martin is one of the most beloved and enigmatic figures in entertainment. “STEVE! (martin) a documentary in 2 pieces” dives into his extraordinary story from two distinct points of view, with companion documentaries that feature never-before-seen footage and raw insights into Martin’s personal and professional trials and triumphs. “Then” chronicles Martin’s early struggles and meteoric rise to revolutionize stand-up before walking away at 35. “Now” focuses on the present day, with Martin in the golden years of his career, retracing the transformation that led to happiness in his art and personal life.
An Apple Original Film hailing from A24 and Tremolo Productions, the two-part documentary is directed and produced by Neville (“20 Feet from Stardom,” “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”).
Apple TV+ offers premium, compelling drama and comedy series, feature films, groundbreaking documentaries, and kids and family entertainment, and is available to watch across all of a user’s favorite screens. After its launch on November 1, 2019, Apple TV+ became the first all-original streaming service to launch around the world and has premiered more original hits and received more award recognitions faster than any other streaming service in its debut. To date, Apple Original films, documentaries and series have earned 479 wins and 2,136 award nominations and counting, including multi-Emmy Award-winning comedy “Ted Lasso” and historic Oscar Best Picture winner “CODA.”
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CANNOT WAIT TO NEVER WATCH THIS! Ohhhh baby, brung it. So much garbage even if there were a good one I would just not chance it. Git you AI a-runnin, and bring back a little of that there John Wayne.
For anyone curious about the life of Steve Martin, this is an engaging, engrossing, and intimate 2-part documentary.
It’s a fascinating revelation of the man and the phenomenon he created with his approach to comedy. His parody of comedy, his suitcase of “stupid,” silly, buffoonish jokes, and wild physicality became comedy. You either got him, or you didn’t, but come Monday morning, all we wanted to do was him at school or work after he went viral via SNL.
By 1980, Steve had become the biggest stand-up comic in the history of stand-up. He bumped major rock stars out of the top slots with record sales in excess of 3.5 million albums. He was the first comedian to sell out stadiums. And then, he walked away from it all…into film.
The AppleTV+ documentary is nicely divided into two halves, titled “Then” and “Now.” Much of the “Now” is shot in my hometown of Santa Barbara. It was fun to see him and Marty Short strolling around town or wobbling along on bicycles when they weren’t sitting in Steve’s massive multimillion-dollar cement bunker of a home high in the hills of Montecito, pouring through jokes written for them on their comedy tour.
There’s a melancholy to Steve that he shares with Jerry Seinfeld, naming what we can already feel as the series reveals more of the emotional side of the 78-year-old’s life today. His father, Glenn Martin, a thwarted actor, seemed particularly cruel. Even at the height of Steve’s successes, his father was wont to say something belittling. In the midst of the massive success of “The Jerk,” Steve remembers him saying, “Well, he’s no Charlie Chaplin.” His father kept parenthood a film title and nothing more for Steve until his current wife, the 26-years younger Anne Stringfield, became pregnant. In 2012, at age 66, Steve became a dad and now dotes on Mary who is eleven today.
The documentary is well done and kept me up long past midnight as I couldn’t stop watching as more of the man was revealed.
Definitely worth a watch if you’re curious about the man with the arrow through his head.
Quite a good banjo player to add to his comedic & acting skills and philosophy training.
Saw him decades ago–circa, “Let’s Get Small” record and Tour. Entered late into a small venue and walked the isle to the very front and sat on the floor. Came away with deeper appreciation and many good b&w pics…including a fine image of his arrow-thru-the-head prop.