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  • 2020
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Summary In his latest work, the 88-year-old Manny Kirchheimer has meticulously restored and constructed 16mm black-and-white footage that he and Walter Hess shot in New York between 1958 and 1960. This lustrous evocation of a different rhythm of life captures the in-between moments—kids playing stickball, window washers, folks reading newspapers...

Directed By: Manfred Kirchheimer

  • 2020
  • 1 h
  • 2020
  • 1 h

Free Time

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Summary In his latest work, the 88-year-old Manny Kirchheimer has meticulously restored and constructed 16mm black-and-white footage that he and Walter Hess shot in New York between 1958 and 1960. This lustrous evocation of a different rhythm of life captures the in-between moments—kids playing stickball, window washers, folks reading newspapers...

Directed By: Manfred Kirchheimer

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Nov 12, 2020
Free Time doesn’t perform the duties of a nostalgic travelogue. It lets itself find a journey by avoiding a destination, a wanderer without purpose who finds humanity because it’s impossible not to.
By Jose Solís FULL REVIEW
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Nov 11, 2020
The sound effects are emphatic enough to call attention to themselves, and serve as a tacit, admirable acknowledgment that this material has been shaped. Even so, some of the clatter distracts from the purity of these great images.
By Ben Kenigsberg FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Cinema Conservancy
Release Date Nov 11, 2020
Duration 1 h
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