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‘Time’ Director Garrett Bradley Explains How She Exposed Mass Incarceration Via One Woman’s Fight
TheWrap magazine: The film has been named Best Documentary by the New York Film Critics Circle and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. By Joe McGovern | December 21, 2020 @ 5:00 PM Last Updated: December 22, 2020 @ 3:33 PM
A version of this story first appeared in the Documentaries issue of TheWrap’s Oscar magazine.
Garrett Bradley’s “Time” (streaming on Amazon) is a moving chronicle of Fox Richardson, a New Orleans woman who for 21 years fought for the rights of her imprisoned husband Robert. The film is impressionistic, often lingering on silent moments or the quietude of nature. Yet it’s made with a keen cinematic eye, presented in desaturated black-and-white, as we move between Fox’s contemporary struggle (her husband, who refused a plea bargain, was sentenced to an absurd 60 years for robbery) and arch
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God’s Own Country steps up to bigger scale and cast names with this 1840s-set drama about real-life English fossil hunter Mary Anning. Oscar and triple Bafta winner Kate Winslet stars opposite multiple Oscar and Bafta nominee Saoirse Ronan in a fictionalised romantic drama that was selected for Cannes, Telluride and Toronto, and released by Neon in the US. Producers Iain Canning and Emile Sherman of See Saw Films won the best picture Oscar for
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at his typically painstaking latest film about endlessness, which opens here in november. as always, every detail of the film is constructed within the studio conjuring scenes in which nothing is left to chance, but andersson, who thinks this film will be his last, is also confronting his own demons in the form of alcoholism with which his colleagues and family are losing patience. i m not very surprised, but disappointed. negotiating a very thin line between celebration and investigation, scott s melancholy doc watches andersson at work, observing both the perfectionism that he demands and the frustration of those who have to deal with his increasing unpredictability. inevitably, there s a sense of an ending at play, with andersson clearly struggling to finish what s being called his final film and thereby confronting his own mortality. but scott does a terrificjob of highlighting the humanism at the heart of andersson‘s absurdist work, exhibiting the same sympathy that ru
from luke gale won it for them. they were heading for their 14th challenge cup. guest of honour was rob burrow, the leeds legend who s living with motor neurone disease. and although he was watching the match from home, his presence was certainly felt at wembley. rob s with us in spirit, that s for sure, at the moment. we ve carried him all the way through, and he s been very much, you know, an inspiration for us on this run. and ijust think it s really fitting that, you know, we ve done it this year for rob, and it s gale with the number seven on his back that s come up with the big play. don t forget there s much more on the bbc sport website, but that s all for now. hello, and welcome to the film review with me, mark kermode, rounding up the best movies available for viewing in cinemas and in the home. there are several high profile documentaries released this week, including two very different portraits of two very different swedish figures. we are in the midst of the six