The Ghost of Peter Sellers

Name: The Ghost of Peter Sellers
Genre: Documentary
Released: May 22, 2020
Duration: 93 min
Rating: 74
Cast: Joe Dunne, John Heyman, Liza Minnelli, Lorenzo Berni, Louis M. Heyward

2020

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Yleisradio (YLE) | Release Date (Streaming): May 22, 2020 | Not Rated

Starring: Joe Dunne, John Heyman, Liza Minnelli, Lorenzo Berni, Louis M. Heyward, Maggie Abbott, Norma Farnes, Peter Boyle, Peter Medak, Peter Sellers, Rene Borisewitz, Robin Dalton, Simon van der Borgh, Spike Milligan, Susan Wood, Thomas Baptiste, Tony Christodoulou

Summary: In 1973 Peter Sellers, one of the biggest comedy actors at the time, embarked on a pirate comedy for Columbia Pictures. He lost confidence with the film immediately and tried to sabotage it, first firing the producers before turning on his friend (and the film's young director), Peter Medak. Despite an illustrious career and the passing ofIn 1973 Peter Sellers, one of the biggest comedy actors at the time, embarked on a pirate comedy for Columbia Pictures. He lost confidence with the film immediately and tried to sabotage it, first firing the producers before turning on his friend (and the film's young director), Peter Medak. Despite an illustrious career and the passing of 43 years since the unraveling production, Medak is still reeling from the disastrous experience and healing the wounds inflicted by Sellers and the film's failure. … Expand

Director: Peter Medak

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 93 min

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G. Allen Johnson

May 19, 2020

It is quite simply one of the great “making of” documentaries of all-time — a short list that includes the George Hickenlooper-Eleanor Coppola documentary “Hearts of Darkness.” Read full review

RogerEbert.com Glenn Kenny

May 22, 2020

The result is the most fascinating documentary about a failed movie since 1965’s “The Epic That Never Was,” about the abortive Korda-produced, von Sternberg-directed, and Charles Laughton-starring film of Robert Graves’ great novel I, Claudius. Read full review

The Playlist Rodrigo Perez

Mar 16, 2020

Emotionally and psychologically, The Ghost Of Peter Sellers, is an A-grade film. Aesthetically, however, it’s a little flat, and kind of takes too long to truly reveal itself even at a scant 93 minutes. Still, it’s ultimately an emotionally cathartic and absorbing movie about a man who can’t let go, yet wants to be free. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Mar 16, 2020

All this piling on turns Ghost of Peter Sellers into a “pathography,” the nickname given biographies that torch the reputations of the dead. And frankly, it’s deserved. Read full review

IndieWire Eric Kohn

Jun 24, 2020

This modest recollection is a quiet act of defiance and course correction. “Ghost in the Noonday Sun” may not be worth anyone’s time, but The Ghost of Peter Sellers is another story — and a much better one. Read full review

Michael Ordoña

Jul 14, 2020

The story of that one miserable shoot is still a useful way to consider both the brilliance of Sellers and the damage he wrought, as well as demonstrating the ludicrous leeway granted to celebrities and the ways that obvious warning signs of possible mental illness often went unheeded. Read full review

Mark Feeney

May 21, 2020

Everyone in the documentary agrees that the undertaking was truly terrible and misconceived. The extensive footage here does nothing to contradict such a view. Read full review

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DrBlahBlah

Jan 19, 2021

A fascinating, touching, entertaining doc about one of the great comedic actors and a disastrous film production.

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