First Cousin Once Removed
A Story of Life After Memory... inside the mind of poet Edwin Honig
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 19 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 10, 2014
- Originally Released: 2012
- Label: HBO Archive
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Directed by | Alan Berliner | |
Produced by | Alan Berliner | |
Executive Production by | Sheila Nevins |
Entertainment Reviews:
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TOMATOMETER
Total Count: 7
Rating: B --
Is capturing a portrait of an artist in mental and emotional decline fair? ... We will probably now remember Honig more for his Alzheimer's than for his healthy life's work.
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Film School Rejects
Rating: 4/5 --
[This] documentary portrait of Honig at the end of his life ... puts the poet's state of constant "now" in the context of the brilliant but sometimes cruel man he used to be.
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The Dissolve
Heartbreaking, haunting and unexpectedly heartening, FIRST COUSIN ONCE REMOVED is an uncommonly moving documentary portrait of a mind in disarray.
Los Angeles Times
Rating: A --
A haunting, masterfully made, and achingly melancholy portrait of the end of life.
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Movie Mezzanine
Rating: 4/5 --
One of the best documentaries ever made on Alzheimer's which has been called the disease of the century.
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Spirituality and Practice
Rating: 4/5 --
It's the latest of Mr. Berliner's dogged investigations into identity and family, and his strongest work yet, elevated by the presence of another artist in Mr. Honig, playfully insightful and eloquent even as his powers wane.
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New York Times
Rating: A --
Using a powerful focal point to manifest the movie's central concerns, Berliner makes his interest in the topic relevant to everyone.
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indieWire
Description by OLDIES.com:
Distinguished poet, translator, critic, and teacher Edwin Honig received worldwide praise, as well as honorary knighthoods from Spain and Portugal. First Cousin Once Removed is acclaimed filmmaker Alan Berliner's deeply personal portrait of Honig -- his friend, cousin and mentor - and Honig's journey through the ravages of Alzheimer's disease. Shot over five years, the film documents his metamorphosis by weaving intimate conversations with Honig, his family and friends; home movies, poetry readings and a surprising array of visual metaphors to portray a wordsmith who may have lost his memory, but retains an enduring playfulness and the bearings of a deeply poetic soul. The result is an unflinching essay on the fragility of being human, and a stark reminder of the profound role that memory plays in all of our lives.
Product Description:
Filmmaker Alan Berliner spends five years chronicling the corrosive effects of Alzheimer's disease on his cousin, distinguished literary icon Edwin Honig, in this deeply humanistic and compassionate documentary.
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- Sales Rank: 95,325
- UPC: 883316984994
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