Just walking down the street on her Upper East Side neighborhood, Stritch is entertaining.
"Shoot Me, " directed by Chiemi Karasawa, captures Stritch off the stage, but no less theatrical.
When Stritch, a diabetic, landed in the hospital, she called for Karasawa to come quickly with her camera.
Stritch's "At Liberty" was memorably documented in an award-winning HBO film, and D.
Also with Lori Petty, Paul Guilfoyle, Zack Norman, Lauren Tom, and Elaine Stritch.
Portraits of actress Elaine Stritch, comedian Richard Pryor and writer Gore Vidal are among other films screening at this year's event.
Stritch doesn't plan to retire from show business, but take it slower: "Easy does it is what I'm looking for, " she says.
Karasawa, a veteran documentary producer and former script supervisor, came to make the film (her directorial debut) through sharing a hairdresser with Stritch.
Earlier in April, Stritch performed a farewell series of shows at the Cafe Carlyle, ahead of her planned move to her hometown of Birmingham, Mich.
Most of the small-group and solo numbers are completed by the wee hours, and shortly afterward everything settles down, leaving just Stritch and the orchestra.
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But if NPH has it hard, this video shows how much work went into the character Joanne, originated by Elaine Stritch and performed this time by Patti LuPone.
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"I would just assume go make more documentaries like this with Jimmy, " says Baldwin, who also recently signed on as producer of "Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me, " a documentary about his "30 Rock" co-star.
Along with interviews with Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin (who has joined the film as a producer), and her longtime musical companion, Rob Bowman, "Shoot Me" is mostly just Stritch irascible and vulnerable going about her days with brassy humor and undaunted energy.
Documentary subjects range from hydraulic fracturing, or fracking ("Gasland Part II, " a sequel to Josh Fox's Oscar-nominated film), Richard Pryor ("Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic"), Bernie Madoff's longtime secretary ("In God We Trust"), Somali pirate hunters ("The Project") and Elaine Stritch ("Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me").
The 88-year-old Broadway legend and New York icon as much a fixture as the Statue of Liberty, but with a whole lot more to say has made her way slowly into the Chelsea theater where the documentary "Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me" was premiering Friday at the Tribeca Film Festival.
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