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  • 2016
  • The Criterion Channel
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2016
  • The Criterion Channel
  • 1 h 30 m

Summary More people are imprisoned in the United States at this moment than in any other time or place in history, yet the prison itself has never felt further away or more out of sight. The Prison in Twelve Landscapes is a film about the prison in which we never see a penitentiary. Instead, the film unfolds as a cinematic journey through a seri...

  • 2016
  • The Criterion Channel
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2016
  • The Criterion Channel
  • 1 h 30 m

The Prison in Twelve Landscapes

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Summary More people are imprisoned in the United States at this moment than in any other time or place in history, yet the prison itself has never felt further away or more out of sight. The Prison in Twelve Landscapes is a film about the prison in which we never see a penitentiary. Instead, the film unfolds as a cinematic journey through a seri...

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Universal Acclaim Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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Universal Acclaim Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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90
Nov 3, 2016
It's rare that a film this outraged is also this calm.
By Alan Scherstuhl FULL REVIEW
90
Nov 3, 2016
Ms. Story’s unconventional approach provokes responses that a traditional facts-and-figures discussion might not. Yet the film’s formal abstraction, far from creating emotional distance, is unexpectedly moving.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
90
Nov 3, 2016
Provocative and often fascinating, The Prison in Twelve Landscapes is an unsentimental look at the ways prisons shape life outside their walls, in places as disparate as Appalachia and Midtown Manhattan.
By Sheri Linden FULL REVIEW
80
Nov 3, 2016
Story has made a potent political film without having to spray viewers with a fusillade of alarming numbers to back it up. She trusts viewers to intuit their way through fascinating anecdotes and detours that gain a cumulative power, one that data alone cannot possibly express.
By Scott Tobias FULL REVIEW
75
Nov 3, 2016
The plaintive plain-spokenness of the interviewees, the way they matter-of-factly speak of atrocity, is transcendent and intensely haunting.
By Chuck Bowen FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Oh Ratface Films
Release Date Nov 4, 2016
Duration 1 h 30 m
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Website http://www.prisonlandscapes.com/
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Awards

DOXA Documentary Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Vancouver Film Critics Circle
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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