Doc Corner: Lynne Sachs’ ‘Film About a Father Who’ – The Film Experience
“‘Film About a Father Who’ makes for an essential, powerful work of documentary to open 2021.” – Glenn Dunks
2021
PRESS
2021
Screen Slate – Interview with Lynne Sachs on “Film About a Father Who”
“…I kept working on what everyone called my “dad film,” but I didn’t really know where it was going. I just knew I was trying to make this film as a way to understand another person.” – Sachs
2021
Lynne Sachs Retrospective Featured in This Week In New York
“Sachs’s films invite us into her personal life as well as the life of others.” in MoMI Retrospective
2021
“Interview with a Filmmaker Who . . .” – Cine-journal
“Film About a Father Who shows offer her strengths admirably and is a heck of a good way to begin 2021.” – George Robinson
2021
Nashville Scene: With Her Latest, Lynne Sachs Profiles Her Father — and Her Complicated Family
Lynne Sachs goes for an abstract, experimental tone in Father, essentially creating a fractured collage of, shall we say, life with father.
2021
Reverse Shot: Lynne Sachs in Conversation with Chris Shields
“As the centerpiece of Museum of the Moving Image’s current retrospective, “Lynne Sachs: Between Thought and Expression,” Film About a Father Who represents the culmination of years of her experimentation and exploration in the DIY film underground.”
2021
“Lynne Sachs: Between Thought and Expression” and why you cannot miss her MoMI retrospective
“It’s a breath of fresh air to see a woman filmmaker explore our bodies, our minds and our sexuality on screen.” -E. Nina Rothe
2021
Unseen Films – FILM ABOUT A FATHER WHO (2020) opens Friday
“What I love about the film is that Sachs throws things out and doesn’t tie it all up. We are left to piece things together.” – Steve Kopian
2021
IDA Features “Film About a Father Who” in Weekly Selections
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home.
2021
Flaherty Co-Presentation with the Museum of the Moving Image: “Lynne Sachs: Between Thought and Expression”
We are very pleased to announce that we are co-presenting a live discussion with filmmaker Lynne Sachs, her brother Ira Sachs Jr. (Little Men, Love Is Strange), and filmmaker Kirsten Johnson (Dick Johnson Is Dead, Cameraperson) on January 19, 7pm ET.
