2010
Not Rated
1 h 27 m

2010
Not Rated
1 h 27 m

Summary I Am Secretly An Important Man is a feature length documentary film portrait of Steven J. Bernstein (aka Jesse Bernstein), one of Seattle's most celebrated voices. His angry, surprisingly fresh, lyrical writings are about sensitive souls, drifters and drug addicts; people alienated by a society that refuses to understand them. He peeled ...

Directed By: Peter Sillen

2010
Not Rated
1 h 27 m

2010
Not Rated
1 h 27 m

I Am Secretly an Important Man

Name: I Am Secretly an Important Man
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Released: 2010-12-15
Duration: 1 min 27 s
Rating: 52

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 5 Critic Reviews

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Directed By: Peter Sillen

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Mixed or Average Based on 5 Critic Reviews

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Variety

Dec 17, 2010

Given his due and more by Sillen's insightful and occasionally startling portrait, Bernstein is made a complicated, even morbidly fascinating figure in a film that will have limited theatrical exposure but, like the director's earlier work, will likely enjoy a cultish afterlife.

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The New York Times

Dec 15, 2010

While I Am Secretly an Important Man skims the surface of Mr. Bernstein's life, it's a surface with more than enough texture to keep you interested.

By Mike Hale FULL REVIEW

Time Out

Dec 15, 2010

The film works to inform as well as to preserve an air of mystery around Bernstein, an apt approach that occasionally slips into the willfully opaque. By all accounts, this secretly important man was tough to live with, but not too hard to love or admire.

By Eric Hynes FULL REVIEW

Village Voice

Dec 15, 2010

Sillen ennobles the havoc of his life with a measure of down-and-out romance, but no moments really puncture a viewer, and the darkness is all too easily shaken off.

By Nick Pinkerton FULL REVIEW

New York Post

Dec 17, 2010

Sillen drags out generic talking heads who say generic things about Bernstein, a generic boho. The film might suffice if you're looking for something to watch on cable TV some early morning. But it isn't worth the hassle and expense of going to a theater.

By V.A. Musetto FULL REVIEW

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Release Date Dec 15, 2010

Duration 1 h 27 m

Rating Not Rated

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Website http://www.iamsecretlyanimportantman.com/

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