This Week in New York – Doc Fortnight: Film About a Father Who
There are numerous shots of family members filming other relatives; at one point, Lynne is filming Ira Jr. filming Ira Sr. while watching home movies on the television.
February 9, 2020
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February 9, 2020
Go Indie Now: From Slamdance 2020 Film About A Father Who…Interview with Director Lynne Sachs
Video Interview: Lynne Sachs discusses “Film About a Father Who” with Joe Compton at the 2020 Slamdance Film Festival.
February 7, 2020
E Nina Rothe: “This is not a portrait”: Lynne Sachs’ must watch ‘Film About a Father Who’ screens in NYC
To say that Ira Sachs Sr. is an interesting character would be an understatement. He is the perfect leading man for a cinematic oeuvre like ‘Film About a Father Who’.
February 6, 2020
The New York Times: 4 Film Series to Catch in NYC This Weekend
Film About a Father Who” (on Tuesday and Feb. 14), shown at the parallel event Slamdance, is actually partly set in that ski town; in it, the filmmaker Lynne Sachs creates a layered cinematic essay about being the daughter of the “Hugh Hefner of Park City.”
February 5, 2020
Greenlight Bookstore: An Evening with Tender Buttons Press
To celebrate the press’s 30th birthday and the publication of the new Tender Omnibus collection, Greenlight hosts a night of reading and conversation featuring three Tender Buttons poets.
February 5, 2020
Criterion Daily: Doc Fortnight 2020
Also arriving in New York straight from Park City is Film About a Father Who,which opened this year’s Slamdance. Director Lynne Sachs says that it “bears witness to the familial tensions that arose from my attempt to understand the web that connects a child to her parent and a sister to her siblings, some of whom I have known all their lives, others I only recently discovered.”
February 4, 2020
Directed by Women – Lynne Sachs: Exploring the Making of ‘Film About a Father Who’
Throughout my life, I have had to deal with “discovering” things about my dad that I did and did not like. There were times when I celebrated his break-all-the-rules approach to life, and other times when I wished he would simply be like every other dad in middle America.
January 31, 2020
Criterion Daily: Scorcese and Schrader, Ghatak and Godard
This year’s Slamdance opened with Lynne Sachs’s Film About a Father Who, an exploration of familial bonds and tensions. The film will screen on February 11 as part of MoMA’sDoc Fortnight, and Ira Sachs, Lynne’s brother and the director most recently of Frankie, calls Film About a Father Who “one of Lynne’s most searingly honest works.”
January 31, 2020
ComingSoon.net: Lynne Sachs on Personal Journey in ‘Film About a Father Who’
“It’s been very interesting to see how many people, no matter what age, are still trying to reckon with who they are in relationship to where they came from.”
January 30, 2020
KCPW 88.3FM, The Daily Buzz & Bitch Talk – Interview with Lynne Sachs hosted by John Wildman
Lynne Sachs discusses “Film About a Father Who” with the Daily Buzz for KCPW.
