The Color of Time

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The Color of Time

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2012

1h 12m

Drama

Biography

Romance

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Memories of the past -- from his first sexual encounter to a tragic loss -- haunt poet C.K. Williams as he struggles to create new works.

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Simon Abrams

RogerEbert.com

Based on Pulitzer Prize-winning poet C.K. Williams's autobiographical work, "The Color of Time" is about poetry, though it has none to speak of.

Rated: 1/4

Dec 12, 2014

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Robert Abele

Los Angeles Times

"The Color of Time" is an odd bird in that its 12 cooks don't necessarily spoil the broth. The problem is that they leave it as broth.

Dec 11, 2014

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Nicolas Rapold

New York Times

The film is too sincere an expression of admiration for this poet's work to feel pretentious, but it's like a music video for the poems, often literal in its biographical readings.

Dec 11, 2014

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Nathan Heller

Vogue

The Color of Time... is the bad chapbook poetry of movies: uncontrolled, gratuitously moody, missing its own point.

Apr 26, 2017

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Mark Jackson

Epoch Times

Either Franco thinks his every creative whim doesn't stink, and we should be delighted to sample all his artistic endeavors, or he's a selfless, mentoring, caring teacher.

Rated: 2.5/5

Jun 13, 2016

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Jared Mobarak

The Film Stage

The idea of students collaborating with a stable of famous actors is a wonderful story in itself, but to then treat the culmination of the exercise as more than a student thesis film does it a disservice.

Rated: D+

Feb 24, 2016

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Megan e

waste of time, I don't know what this was, I doubt the director did either, but with no plot, weird editing and cinematography, and acting reduced to lingering looks, it's a montage rather than a movie

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

07/23/23

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steve d

As rediculous as its name.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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Audience Member

I like the collaboratory concepts. The execution is amateurish. Self-congratulatory. Banal. He claims to love women but it's all about him.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

02/14/23

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Audience Member

a fresh take on poets and poetry!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/03/23

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Audience Member

art house film that was boring and dead.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/22/23

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Audience Member

artsy fartsy pretentious boring

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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Synopsis

Memories of the past -- from his first sexual encounter to a tragic loss -- haunt poet C.K. Williams as he struggles to create new works.

Director: Alexis Gambis, Edna Luise Biesold, Sarah-Violet Bliss, Gabrielle Demeestere
Producer: Edward Bass, James Franco, Shruti Ganguly, Vince Jolivette
Screenwriter: Edna Luise Biesold, Sarah-Violet Bliss, Gabrielle Demeestere, Alexis Gambis
Production Co: Rabbit Bandini Productions
Rating: R (Language|Drug Use|Nudity|Some Sexuality)
Genre: Drama, Biography, Romance
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 2, 2014
Runtime: 1h 12m

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