Regarding Susan Sontag

2014

1h 40m

Documentary

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86%

7 Reviews

Tomatometer

58%

50+ Ratings

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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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Worthless bio of a worthless gay intellectual. So boring and predictable and she was the darling of the left!

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/20/23

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Interesante documental sobre la famosa Sontag.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/15/23

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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.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/15/23

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Fascinating insight into the writer's personal life, and how that shaped her professional life.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

01/18/23

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Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/27/23

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Sarah Fonseca

Autostraddle

While it would be easy to create a sterilized portrait of the accomplished intellectual, Kates refrains from doing so.

Nov 3, 2018

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David Wiegand

San Francisco Chronicle

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.

Rated: 4/4

Dec 10, 2014

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Robert Lloyd

Los Angeles Times

This... makes for a highly watchable film.

Dec 10, 2014

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Nathan Heller

Vogue

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.

Sep 27, 2016

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Anna Tatarska

Movie Mezzanine

Highlighting the personal sphere of the self-proclaimed "genius-schmuck" here seems not only justified, but important.

Rated: B

Dec 11, 2014

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Nora Lee Mandel

Film-Forward.com

Insightful contrasts between . . .a fierce public persona of independence and the emotional compromises of a woman in the throes of passionate and erotic love.

Rated: 8/10

Aug 4, 2014

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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: Tom Dolby
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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