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  • 2016
  • Zeitgeist Films
  • 1 h 10 m
  • 2016
  • Zeitgeist Films
  • 1 h 10 m

Summary This deeply personal portrait of acclaimed New York–based artist Ida Applebroog was shot with mischievous reverence by her filmmaker daughter, Beth B. Born in the Bronx to Orthodox Jewish émigrés from Poland, Applebroog, now in her 80s, looks back at how she expressed herself through decades of drawings and paintings, as well as her priv...

Directed By: Beth B

  • 2016
  • Zeitgeist Films
  • 1 h 10 m
  • 2016
  • Zeitgeist Films
  • 1 h 10 m

Call Her Applebroog

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Summary This deeply personal portrait of acclaimed New York–based artist Ida Applebroog was shot with mischievous reverence by her filmmaker daughter, Beth B. Born in the Bronx to Orthodox Jewish émigrés from Poland, Applebroog, now in her 80s, looks back at how she expressed herself through decades of drawings and paintings, as well as her priv...

Directed By: Beth B

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Jun 9, 2016
Beth B is not out to deliver a comprehensive biography. Instead, she achieves a vivid snapshot of a still-vital artist late in a still-purposeful life.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
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Jun 7, 2016
It implies that not even the concentrated self-scrutiny required to make art like Ida Applebroog's is enough to make sense of ourselves to ourselves.
By Elise Nakhnikian FULL REVIEW
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Jun 9, 2016
It's in the more personal moments — such as when the artist enthusiastically describes her painting of an elderly Marilyn Monroe — that it becomes most interesting.
By Frank Scheck FULL REVIEW
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Jun 9, 2016
The film is a vehicle for Applebroog-appreciation, daughterly and otherwise.
By Michael Atkinson FULL REVIEW

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Release Date Jun 10, 2016
Duration 1 h 10 m
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Website http://callherapplebroog.com/
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