Hammer to Nail: Film About a Father Who
It’s a fascinating probe into the mysteries of the human mind and heart.
2020
PRESS
2020
“Note Perfect” Music Scoring “Film About a Father Who”
“The music, orchestrated by Stephen Vitiello is note perfect. Whimsical when necessary, ominous at times, and occasionally inquisitive — the music always adds and never detracts.”
2020
Disappointment Media – Slamdance 2020: FILM ABOUT A FATHER WHO — A Personal and Experimental Memoir
Like any memoir, this movie is heavily dependent on the audience connecting with the film’s subject for the narrative to work, and because of Sachs’s obvious passion for the story she is telling, the movie is mostly effective.
2020
The Film Stage: Slamdance Review: Film About a Father Who Finds a Director Reckoning with Her Past
This film isn’t therefore about righting wrongs, but exposing facts Ira kept locked away until it either benefitted him or could no longer stay hidden.
2020
Unseen Films: Film About A Father Who (2020) Slamdance 2020
What starts out as a typical look at father by a daughter slowly becomes something else as revelations about Sachs’ father begin to muddy the waters and change what she and others think of him. It quickly becomes clear that there are more than one way to see him.
2020
Filmmaker Magazine: “Forgiveness is a Big Part of the Movie”: Director Lynne Sachs on her Slamdance-Premiering Doc, Film About a Father Who
I guess in filmmaking there’s a thin line between voyeurism and intimacy.
2020
LRMOnline: Film About A Father Who Documentary: Director Lynne Sachs Interview | Slamdance 2020
When I started making the film, I didn’t know what I was talking about. [Laughs] You can’t be on a mission about your own life. It’s not like writing a novel, and you know what the ending is going to be. I didn’t know that the last two years would go in the direction that it did. I just kept doing it.
2020
Salt Lake Dirt: An Interview with Filmmaker Lynne Sachs
So I kept collecting footage or shooting footage but not watching it. And then about two years ago I said, “I really have to start going through this.” I could see my dad getting older. But I’m getting older at exactly the same rate and so are you.
2020
The Movable Fest: Slamdance 2020 Interview: Lynne Sachs on a Subject Close Enough to Feel Far in “Film About a Father Who”
In conventional documentaries, you sit someone down and ask them questions and then they reflect and they deliver it back, as demanded. That wasn’t the way I was able to capture most of the material from my dad.
2020
Filmwax: Podcast Interview with Lynne Sachs by Adam Schartoff
The filmmaker Lynne Sachs makes her 3rd visit to the podcast to discuss her most personal film yet, something she’s been working on most of her life, a film about her father Ira Sachs, Sr.
