Great Speeches from a Dying World

Name: Great Speeches from a Dying World (2009)
Rating: 100
Cast: Unknown Actor

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David Fear

Time Out

The film's success in giving the voiceless a platform balances out Phillips's more precocious and pretentious flourishes.

Rated: 3/6

Feb 11, 2009

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Stephen Holden

New York Times

Great Speeches From a Dying World is an unsettling documentary portrait gallery of nine homeless people living on the streets of Seattle.

Rated: 3/5

Feb 11, 2009

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Nicolas Rapold

Village Voice

In a sense, Phillips's mission is a variation on the tradition of semi-orchestrated socially conscious documentary that stretches back through Lionel Rogosin's On the Bowery and beyond.

Feb 11, 2009

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Avi Offer

NYC Movie Guru

Doesn't solve the issue of homelessness, but at least it captivates your heart by humanizing homeless people and by giving them a voice.

Rated: 7.25/10

Feb 14, 2009

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William Arnold

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

This gritty, unflinching documentary by Linas Phillips traces the misfortunes of 10 of Seattle's hard-core homeless over a period of a year.

Rated: B

Dec 4, 2008

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/17/23

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