Reel Injun

Name: Reel Injun
Genre: Documentary
Released: June 11, 2010
Duration: 85 min
Rating: 63

2010

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Lorber Films | Release Date: June 11, 2010

Summary: From Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond, an entertaining and insightful look at the portrayal of North American Natives through a century of cinema. With clips from hundreds of classic and recent films, and candid interviews with celebrated Native and non-Native directors, writers, actors and activists — including Clint Eastwood, Robbie Robertson,From Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond, an entertaining and insightful look at the portrayal of North American Natives through a century of cinema. With clips from hundreds of classic and recent films, and candid interviews with celebrated Native and non-Native directors, writers, actors and activists — including Clint Eastwood, Robbie Robertson, Sacheen Littlefeather, John Trudell and Russell Mean — Reel Injun traces the evolution of cinema’s depiction of Native people from the silent film era to the present day. (Lorber Films)… Expand

Director: Catherine Bainbridge and Jeremiah Hayes and Neil Diamond

Genre(s): Documentary

Runtime: 85 min

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Boxoffice Magazine Pam Grady

There are gaps here and there, but it provides a fascinating introduction to a corner of film history that has gotten too little attention. Read full review

V.A. Musetto

Examines in entertaining detail the way Hollywood has treated North American natives going as far back as the days of silent flicks. Read full review

James Adams

Entertaining and informative documentary on how native people have been portrayed on-screen over the years and how these portrayals have shaped native self-perception and non-native prejudice. Read full review

Mike Hale

Absorbing and amusing for as long as it looks back at those Hollywood westerns, recounting their sins against American Indians. Read full review

David Fear

The first-person sections, however, couldn’t be more clumsy or grating, and every time Diamond’s tone-deaf narration starts repeating the obvious, you can feel an eye-opening history lesson turning into a quirky, orbs-glazing travelogue. Read full review

Joe Leydon

The tone of Reel Injun is respectfully serious, though well short of angry, while focusing on how the stereotypical depictions of marauding redskins affected the self-images of Native Americans. Read full review

Andrew Schenker

Combining a road trip from his native Arctic reservation to Los Angeles with an archival cinematic survey, Diamond's treatment of each is perfunctory to the point of inutility. Read full review

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