Burke’s Books – Reading and Book Signing of “Year by Year”
Join us at Burke’s Books for a reading and book signing with Lynne Sachs for her book of poetry, “Year by Year”
2020
PRESS
2020
Memphis writer, filmmaker Lynne Sachs returns this week with new book of poetry
Almost 30 years in the making and constructed from rediscovered Super 8 and 16mm home movies, VHS tape recordings and new digital video footage, “Film About a Father Who” — the title is a reference to Yvonne Rainer’s 1974 landmark “Film About a Woman Who…” — is, at base, a portrait of Ira Sachs Sr., the “Bohemian businessman” whose Memphis children were only three of what eventually was revealed to be nine children among six mothers.
2020
KPCW –SLAMDANCE 2020 OPENS WITH DOCUMENTARY ON PARK CITY DENIZEN IRA SACHS
“Here we have a family. And most families have fall-outs. And the ruptured and the intense one in Lynne’s film—amazing documentary—reveals how far blood lines can stretch without losing connection altogether…”
2020
The Salt Lake Tribune: Park City developer Ira Sachs Sr. will be profiled in Slamdance’s opening film
In its program description, Slamdance said the film “offers simultaneous, sometimes contradictory views of one seemingly unknowable man who is publicly the uninhibited center of the frame yet privately ensconced in secrets. … As the startling facts mount, Sachs as a daughter discovers more about her father than she had ever hoped to reveal.”
2020
Variety: Museum of Modern Art’s Doc Fortnight Lineup Includes ‘Crip Camp,’ ‘Some Kind of Heaven’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Now in its 19th year, Doc Fortnight will run from February 5 to 19, 2020, and will include 12 world premieres, 17 North American premieres, and 14 US premieres from 38 countries.
2020
KPCW Local News Hour with Leslie Thatcher – Park City NPR Jan. 3, 2020 Live Radio Interview with Lynne Sachs
Peter Baxter, Co-Founder and Director of Slamdance Film Festival, talks about this year’s festival, which features Lynne Sachs festival premiere, a documentary on her father and Park City bon vivant Ira Sachs Sr., “Film About A Father Who”.
2020
“Year By Year: Poems” – San Francisco Public Library Staff Pick
Intimate and imagistic, the poems unfold a series of miniature stories with sensuous rhythms, telling visual detail, and gentle humor.
2019
Headroom + Vertical Cinema Present: Films by/ with/ for Barbara Hammer
“A Month of Single Frames” will play at Headroom + Vertical Cinema at the University of Iowa with a program of films by/ with/ for Barbara Hammer. This program was curated by Deborah Stratman.
2019
Deadline : Slamdance Sets ‘Film About A Father Who’ To Open 2020 Festival
The cinematic exploration of her father offers simultaneous, sometimes contradictory views of one seemingly unknowable man who is publicly the uninhibited center of the frame, yet privately ensconced in secrets. As facts mount, she discovers more about her father than she had hoped to reveal.
2019
Screen Daily: Slamdance 2020 to open with ‘Film About A Father Who’
“It takes undeniable courage to discover and reveal shocking truths about one’s family,” said Slamdance festival manager Alina Solodnikova.
