Film About a Father Who: Lynne Sachs Film ReviewJanuary 30, 2021by Alison Smith https://redefinemag.net/2021/film-about-a-father-who-lynne-sachs-film-review/ In her 2021 documentary, Film About a Father Who, filmmaker Lynne Sachs recalls how her dad, Ira Sachs, owned two identical red Cadillacs that he swapped out for each other, never letting his family in on his con. While benign, this secret was the […]
In celebration of the Museum of the Moving Image’s online Lynne Sachs retrospective, The Film-Makers’ Coop is proud to present a Q&A Discussion of Sachs’ nonfiction filmography, including her new feature, Film About a Father Who. The panel consists of Sachs, Bradley Eros, M.M Serra, and Jack Waters.
“Formally experimental for a documentary, the wide range of aesthetics are quite reflexive in Sachs own commentary about the inconsistency of memory, and how the movie image is every bit as deceptive.” – Robert Joseph Butler
” The program Lynne Sachs: Between Thought and Expression collects 30 years of shorts and features from the director, showing off her unusual blending of personal materials with both observational and essayistic film techniques.” – Schindel
Top ten lists from most of the writers and programmers who used to participate in the Voice poll
“Film About A Father Who is Lynne Sachs’ latest, and evidently most personal, feat of documentation.” -Nicholas Yap
Lynne Sachs in conversation with the Belcourt Programming Staff: Allison Inman Mae Moreno, Toby Leonard, and Zack Hall on the occasion of “Film About a Father Who”‘s virtual theatre release.
That’s what veteran filmmaker Lynne Sachs learned with her latest documentary “Film About a Father Who,” which tells the story of her pioneering Utah businessman father, Ira.
“Legacy is at the forefront of study for Sachs, whose career has spanned the last three-and-a-half decades.” – Joel Copling
Lynne Sachs programming noted in DocNYC’s weekly newsletter.
