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90Should be a delight for everyone. Bird watchers will find affirmation and even explanation for their avocation. People who can't tell a towhee from a titmouse will still wonder at the beauty of it all.
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83In "Birders," by contrast, nature is one big entrancing show; a world of tweets without "tweets."
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Jan 23, 201380Kimball's bird footage is attractive on its own, but the way he positions his birders in conversation with one another is why Birders soars.
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80As "Birders" makes clear, and as Franzen would surely agree, birds and birders have always been among us and require no reinvention. What they have to offer us is what that heron offered me, for just a split-second – a sense that despite our best efforts we are still a part of nature, and not yet an alien species disconnected from the real world.
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80Director Kimball's sharply focused, serenely ravishing nature photography provides reason enough to go armchair birding.
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80The birds are not only gorgeous but, as they poke for food and rustle around, entertaining.
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80I found myself repeatedly on the edge of tears over its course. It is a relatively short but luxurious film.
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75Beautifully photographed over the four seasons - including Christmas, for the park's century-old bird census - Birders: The Central Park Effect is full of grace notes.
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Jan 15, 201375Equally enrapturing are the birders themselves, including the writers Jonathan Franzen and Jonathan Rosen – contemplatively articulate in all their geeky birding glory – and especially Starr Saphir, who leads birding tours through Central Park.
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Jan 15, 201360The feverish intensity of enthusiastic birdwatchers may seem better suited for a Christopher Guest movie, but director Jeffrey Kimball's lush cinematography makes Central Park's beauty no laughing matter.