Opening with a close-up of the crow’s feet around its subject’s eyes and expanding to reveal her Botox-frozen upper lip, the documentary/portrait Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work celebrates Saint Joan the ...

Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, the new film by Full Frame mainstays Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg (The Devil Came on Horseback; The Trials of Darryl Hunt), is a brisk, nonstop funny look at a year in ...

"Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work" WHAT IT IS: An all-access look into the highs and lows (though mostly lows) of a year in the life of the much-maligned Joan Rivers, whose pioneering comedy career got ...

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“Everyone thinks they know Joan Rivers. And they do. They know part of her persona and her performances, but they don’t know Joan Rivers.” Filmmaker Ricki Stern is talking about the documentary she co ...

Near the beginning of the 2010 documentary "Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work" – by turns hilarious, heartbreaking and inspiring – the comedy legend shows off a wall’s worth of card catalog drawers filled ...

If I were either Ricki Stern or Annie Sundberg, and I had had any part in coming up with the subtitle for Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, we'd never stop high-fiving. Sure, the title is a play on the ...