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| Zeitgeist Films | Release Date: April 19, 2019 |
Starring:
Alice Guy, Cari Beauchamp, Gillian Armstrong, James Bobin, John Bailey, Lake Bell, Marc Abraham, Peter Billingsley, Richard Abel, Stephanie Allain
Summary:
Be Natural is both a tribute and a detective story, tracing the circumstances by which pioneer filmmaker Alice Guy-Blaché faded from memory and the path toward her reclamation.
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Jun 18, 2019
If there were any justice in the world — there often isn’t — Alice Guy-Blaché would be remembered alongside D.W. Griffith as one of the great pioneers of the early screen. The good news is that she is becoming better known, but as the new documentary, Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché makes clear, not nearly as much as she deserves, nor for the right reasons.
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Movie Nation
Apr 17, 2019
Apr 22, 2019
Every subject shares genuine enthusiasm after watching Guy-Blaché’s work, and as messy as “Be Natural” can be at times, with that frenetic pace of info delivery coming from all directions at once, it’s actually the natural tone and pace of a creator who’s excited by their subject matter.
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Apr 25, 2019
Mar 19, 2019
May 2, 2019
The enterprise would be something to celebrate if the movie itself weren’t so flawed, not just in scholarly terms but in her mania for visualizing seemingly every phone call she made in the hunt for Guy-Blaché material. Sadly, all these problems overwhelm Green’s noteworthy success in tracking down previously unknown documents and photos.
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