SummaryIn 1950s Manhattan, a dingy, five-story wreck of a loft building becomes the home and the obsession of the brilliant photographer W. Eugene Smith --who leaves his family and moves there to live the artist’s life. Smith, crashing after a stellar but frustrating career at LIFE Magazine, wires the building for sound and for nearly a decade captures ... Read More
Directed By:Sara Fishko
Written By:Sara Fishko
The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith
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Sep 22, 2016
90
The bohemian paradise of this environment had a dark side, and the movie doesn’t give it short shrift. Nevertheless, a genuine exhilaration holds throughout.
Sep 22, 2016
70
The film is a treasury of photographs and anecdotes, of fleeting peeks at the celebrities (Carla Bley, Steve Reich, Jimmy Giuffre, Dalí) who passed through, but it too rarely slows down and really lets us listen — Fishko is always on to the next striking image that will too quickly pass.
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Production Company:
- Lumiere Productions
- WNYC Radio
Release Date:Sep 23, 2016
Duration:1 h 27 m
Awards
Cleveland International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
DOC NYC
• 1 Nomination
