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Regarding Susan Sontag

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Using images, archived materials and accounts from friends, family and colleagues, filmmaker Nancy D. Kates traces the life of the cultural critic and writer.

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Sarah Fonseca Autostraddle 11/03/2018
While it would be easy to create a sterilized portrait of the accomplished intellectual, Kates refrains from doing so. Go to Full Review David Wiegand San Francisco Chronicle 12/10/2014
4/4
If you take a less passive approach to the film and connect the multiple dots Kates and co-writer John Haptas have positioned through the 105-minute film, you'll begin to understand what made [Sontag] tick. Go to Full Review Robert Lloyd Los Angeles Times 12/10/2014
This... makes for a highly watchable film. Go to Full Review Nathan Heller Vogue 09/27/2016
As Kates's documentary makes clear, few authors seized as fully the range of experience, intellectual and physical, that the writing life allowed, and used it to help with the crucial naming of their world. Go to Full Review Anna Tatarska Movie Mezzanine 12/11/2014
B
Highlighting the personal sphere of the self-proclaimed "genius-schmuck" here seems not only justified, but important. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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04/19/2015 Worthless bio of a worthless gay intellectual. So boring and predictable and she was the darling of the left! See more 02/14/2015 Interesante documental sobre la famosa Sontag. See more 12/09/2014 This documentary should have focused more heavily on her ideas and some explanatory and/or critical assessments of her ideas, rather than on her personality, love life and intellectual status during her life. See more 09/14/2014 Fascinating insight into the writer's personal life, and how that shaped her professional life. See more 08/10/2014 http://www.clevelandmovieblog.com/2014/08/regarding-susan-sontag-august-10th.html See more Read all reviews
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Nancy D. Kates

Director

Patricia Clarkson

Narrator

Noël Burch

Self

Kevin Costner

Crash Davis

Mark Danner

Self

Nadine Gordimer

Self

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Synopsis Using images, archived materials and accounts from friends, family and colleagues, filmmaker Nancy D. Kates traces the life of the cultural critic and writer.
Director
Nancy D. Kates
Producer
Rachel Antell, Nancy D. Kates
Screenwriter
Nancy D. Kates, John Haptas
Production Co
Question Why Films
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Dec 6, 2018
Runtime
1h 40m
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