DocNYC: Monday Memos features MoMI Retro and “Film About a Father Who” Release
Lynne Sachs programming noted in DocNYC’s weekly newsletter.
January 18, 2021
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January 15, 2021
The Film Stage Recommends “Film About a Father Who”
“With thirty-five years of footage shot across varied formats and devices to cull through and piece together, the result becomes less about providing a clear picture of who this man is and more about understanding the cost of his actions.”
January 15, 2021
LA Times: Film About a Father Who’ untangles director’s family tree
“Sachs achieves a poetic resignation about unknowability inside families, and the hidden roots never explained from looking at a family tree.”
January 15, 2021
QNS: Astoria’s Museum of Moving Image presents retrospective of NYC filmmaker’s 30-year career
“This film is about a father who… is a different man for everyone who knows him…” – Sachs
January 15, 2021
Docs in Orbit: Lynne Sachs Retrospective at the Museum of Moving Image
Docs In Orbit revisits their conversation with Lynne Sachs on the occasion of her upcoming retrospective curated by Edo Choi at the Museum of Moving Image in New York.
January 15, 2021
What (not) to Doc – In Virtual Release: FILM ABOUT A FATHER WHO
“…, the portrait that Lynne Sachs pieces together grows increasingly intriguing, not just of her father, but of his generation, and, really, of the broader idea of family.”
January 15, 2021
Film About a Father Who – reviewed on Roger Ebert
“One of the most striking things about the movie is how it reveals the way in which all adult children feel forever small when contemplating the life experience of their parents: the brave or reckless choices, the beneficial and destructive outcomes, the redactions and blank spots, and the mysteries that will never be solved.”
January 14, 2021
NY Times – Critic’s Pick: “Film About a Father Who”
“[A] brisk, prismatic and richly psychodramatic family portrait.” -New York Times
January 14, 2021
Mubi Notebooks – Lynne Sachs: Between Thought and Expression
“At the center of Sachs’s work is often Sachs herself: her body, her voice, her words. And with those come the subjects that preoccupy her: family, feminism, language, place, and being.” – Kat Sachs
January 14, 2021
Gay City News on “Film About a Father Who”
“Film About a Father Who” Review by Gay City News
