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  • 2016
  • Grasshopper Film
  • 1 h 22 m
  • 2016
  • Grasshopper Film
  • 1 h 22 m

Summary Robert Frank revolutionized photography and independent film. He documented the Beats, Welsh coal miners, Peruvian Indians, The Stones, London bankers, and the Americans. This is the bumpy ride, revealed with unblinking honesty by the reclusive artist himself.

Directed By: Laura Israel

Written By: Melinda Shopsin, Laura Israel

  • 2016
  • Grasshopper Film
  • 1 h 22 m
  • 2016
  • Grasshopper Film
  • 1 h 22 m

Don't Blink - Robert Frank

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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Summary Robert Frank revolutionized photography and independent film. He documented the Beats, Welsh coal miners, Peruvian Indians, The Stones, London bankers, and the Americans. This is the bumpy ride, revealed with unblinking honesty by the reclusive artist himself.

Directed By: Laura Israel

Written By: Melinda Shopsin, Laura Israel

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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10% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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70% Positive
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20% Mixed
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91
Jul 12, 2016
Don’t Blink is the rare documentary both vague enough to whet your appetite and specific enough to imbue a sense of kinship with its subject, like an old friend from camp you haven’t seen in decades. Like Frank himself, the film chugs ever forward as an elaborate, chaotic, grumpy, optimistic mess.
By Jacob Oller FULL REVIEW
90
Jul 14, 2016
Israel's willingness to honor Frank's own vision powers the film.
By Alan Scherstuhl FULL REVIEW
90
Jul 12, 2016
You leave with a vivid sense of the man’s living presence and a reasonably thorough account of his life, work and associations. Given the sheer volume and variety of the work in question, this is an impressive achievement.
By A.O. Scott FULL REVIEW
88
Jul 31, 2016
Like the work it illuminates, the doc feels formally impeccable yet utterly unstaged, a vivid distillation of a distinct and precious life.
By Elise Nakhnikian FULL REVIEW
70
Jul 14, 2016
Although a bit too diffuse to fully realize its potential, the documentary is an evocative portrait of its subject.
By Frank Scheck FULL REVIEW
50
Jul 14, 2016
In embracing the disorienting quality present in Frank’s work, 'Don’t Blink' is but an abstract portrait, muddled by a jarring messiness.
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38
Jul 14, 2016
Frank’s work is phenomenal, but his longtime editor and collaborator Laura Israel seems determined during the course of her documentary never to give you a moment long enough to contemplate it.
By Farran Smith Nehme FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Assemblage Films, ARTE
Release Date Jul 13, 2016
Duration 1 h 22 m
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Website https://www.facebook.com/dontblinkrobertfrank/
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