Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes

Name: Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes
Genre: Documentary
Released: August 3, 2024
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 75

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HBO Documentary Films | Release Date (Streaming): August 3, 2024 | TV-MA

Summary: Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes allows Elizabeth Taylor’s own voice to narrate her story, inviting audiences to rediscover not just a megastar of Hollywood’s Golden Age but a complex woman who navigated lifelong fame, personal identity, and public scrutiny on a global stage from an early childhood. Through newly recovered interviews withElizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes allows Elizabeth Taylor’s own voice to narrate her story, inviting audiences to rediscover not just a megastar of Hollywood’s Golden Age but a complex woman who navigated lifelong fame, personal identity, and public scrutiny on a global stage from an early childhood. Through newly recovered interviews with Taylor and unprecedented access to the movie star’s personal archive, the film reveals the complex inner life and vulnerability of the Hollywood legend while also challenging audiences to recontextualize her achievements and her legacy. … Expand

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: TV-MA

Runtime: 100 min

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Nina Metz

Aug 7, 2024

Always vivid on screen, that quality also existed in her life and self-expression offscreen. Read full review

Robert Lloyd

Aug 7, 2024

All in all, Burstein’s film feels big and perceptive, a love letter to a remarkable, interesting and very human human. Read full review

John Anderson

Aug 1, 2024

Documentarian Nanette Burstein has a wealth of photographic material at her disposal, much of it breathtakingly lovely, and she uses it gracefully and in the noble cause of forward motion. Read full review

The Telegraph Anita Singh

Aug 15, 2024

The tapes – recordings of her 1964 interview sessions with her biographer, Richard Meryman – play out while we’re lavished with clips from Taylor’s films and newsreel of her looking fabulous. The tapes do lend an intimacy. Read full review

Richard Roeper

Aug 1, 2024

Nanette Burstein...provides steady, no-frills direction that includes snippets of Taylor’s movies, a myriad of behind-the-scenes photos and newsreel footage; there’s a nearly endless supply of material, given Taylor starred in some 80 films and offscreen was one of the most photographed and filmed people ever. Read full review

Mark Feeney

Aug 15, 2024

Listening to Taylor is so compelling the screen could be blank and “Lost Tapes” would still be interesting. But director Nanette Burstein keeps things visually abundant with home movies, snapshots, film stills, film clips, newsreels, publicity photos. Read full review

The Guardian Lucy Mangan

Aug 15, 2024

However partial, though, and however little new material it has to offer, even for the amateur fan like me, the film remains a heady treat. Because it is about Elizabeth Taylor. They don’t make them like they used to – and they probably never will again. Read full review

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