Don't Blink - Robert Frank

Don’t Blink is the rare documentary both vague enough to whet your appetite and specific enough to imbue a sense of kinship with its subject, like an old friend from camp you haven’t seen in decades.

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Don’t Blink is the rare documentary both vague enough to whet your appetite and specific enough to imbue a sense of kinship with its subject, like an old friend from camp you haven’t seen in decades.

2925d ago

"I hate these fuckin' interviews," Robert Frank says just a few moments into Laura Israel's Don't Blink, a vigorous documentary surveying the career and life of the photographer/filmmaker/one-man Beat happening.

2925d ago

You leave with a vivid sense of the man’s living presence and a reasonably thorough account of his life, work and associations. Given the sheer volume and variety of the work in question, this is an impressive achievement.

2925d ago

"I hate these fuckin' interviews," Robert Frank says just a few moments into Laura Israel's Don't Blink, a vigorous documentary surveying the career and life of the photographer/filmmaker/one-man Beat happening.

2925d ago

You leave with a vivid sense of the man’s living presence and a reasonably thorough account of his life, work and associations. Given the sheer volume and variety of the work in question, this is an impressive achievement.

2925d ago

Frank is delightful company, as emotionally transparent and offhandedly insightful in person as he is as his art.

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Frank is delightful company, as emotionally transparent and offhandedly insightful in person as he is as his art.

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Frank is delightful company, as emotionally transparent and offhandedly insightful in person as he is as his art.

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Laura Israel's documentary recounts the life and career of the famed photographer/filmmaker.

2925d ago

Laura Israel's documentary recounts the life and career of the famed photographer/filmmaker.

2925d ago

Laura Israel's documentary recounts the life and career of the famed photographer/filmmaker.

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From its opening minutes, “Don’t Blink — Robert Frank” establishes itself more as a collage than a simple documentary.

2925d ago

From its opening minutes, “Don’t Blink — Robert Frank” establishes itself more as a collage than a simple documentary.

2925d ago

From its opening minutes, “Don’t Blink — Robert Frank” establishes itself more as a collage than a simple documentary.

2925d ago

Laura Israel's documentary offers an exhaustive and somewhat exhausting portrait of the famed photographer and director.

2925d ago

Laura Israel's documentary offers an exhaustive and somewhat exhausting portrait of the famed photographer and director.

2925d ago

Laura Israel's documentary offers an exhaustive and somewhat exhausting portrait of the famed photographer and director.

2925d ago

Now 91 years old, Robert Frank is a towering figure in photography, having made his name when a collection of his work was published in 1958 as “The Americans.” He went on to direct avant-garde films such as “Pull My Daisy” (narrated by Jack Kerouac) and the notorious, never-officially released “C - - ksucker Blues” with the Rolling Stones.

2925d ago

Now 91 years old, Robert Frank is a towering figure in photography, having made his name when a collection of his work was published in 1958 as “The Americans.” He went on to direct avant-garde films such as “Pull My Daisy” (narrated by Jack Kerouac) and the notorious, never-officially released “C - - ksucker Blues” with the Rolling Stones.

2925d ago

Now 91 years old, Robert Frank is a towering figure in photography, having made his name when a collection of his work was published in 1958 as “The Americans.” He went on to direct avant-garde films such as “Pull My Daisy” (narrated by Jack Kerouac) and the notorious, never-officially released “C - - ksucker Blues” with the Rolling Stones.

2925d ago