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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0717119109646
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: New Yorker Video
Manufacturer: New Yorker Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: New Yorker Video
Release Date: April 10, 2007
Running Time: 84 minutes
Sales Rank: 69386
Studio: New Yorker Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
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When estranged father, dreamer, and visionary architect Glen Howard Small bequeaths his daughter the task of writing his biography, she answers instead with a provocative film about his precarious career and thorny private life. At 31, Glen Small, founder and faculty member of the internationally acclaimed Southern California Institute of Architecture, was a rising star. At 61, he can barely pay his bills.
In the tradition of My Architect and The Royal Tenenbaums, filmmaker Lucia Small digs deep to explore the delicate tension between her father's obligations to family and his life-long passion to "save the world through architecture."
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I originally saw this documentary on the Sundance Channel. As a documentary, it works on two levels. It tells the story of an essentially unknown, but important, architect, whose work influenced a generation of young LA architects. It is also a poignant story of a complex father-daughter relationship, one that is made even more complex by the flights of a stubborn, idealist father who remains true to his lifelong creative obsession. Highly recommended.
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This documentary film is truly a work of art. Unlike many documentaries that simply turn the camera on an interesting subject, Lucia Small works magic to bring creativity and personal interest to her story both in front of and behind the scenes to make the subject and this film so engaging. Telling the story of her father, she interweaves critique, engagement, surprise, frustration, and a sense of wonder at her father's continuing belief in himself as the true artist who has simply been misunderstood. ... Read More
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A five-star rating for this outstanding documentary which poignantly examines the issues involved in balancing career aspirations with raising a family. A daughter, as only she can, tells the story of her father - an uncompromising, visionary, architect - who was so preoccupied with his role in changing the world through architecture that in the process compromised his role as a father. With feeling, honesty and humor, Lucia Small creatively weaves the needs and wishes of herself and her siblings with ... Read More
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This is an amazing movie... How rare that a talented filmmaker turns the camera on herself and her own roots to tell such a funny, yet heartbreaking story. This is an intimate, brave memoir - I think Lucia Small took a big chance documenting the history of her unusual, creative and oh-so-narcissistic father - it's an odd tribute to a man so reflective of his times (1960's and 70's) -- I wonder what he thought of it. A must-see for documentary fans, fans of truth or even just fans of family dysfunction!
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Lucia Small's personal docu is a heartbreaking and hilarious look into the hubris of her architect father (who comes across like a character in an Ayn Rand novel) and how he and his estranged daughter forge an unlikely bond. A prize-winner at Slamdance--not to be missed!!!
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