Following Sean

Name: Following Sean
Genre: Documentary
Released: January 13, 2006
Duration: 87 min
Rating: 64

2006

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Upstate Films | Release Date: January 13, 2006 | Unrated

Summary: Filmmaker Ralph Arlyck first met Sean while living as a graduate student in San Francisco's Haight Ashbury neighborhood at the height of the 1960s. Thirty years, three generations, and a lifetime later, Arlyck has returned to San Francisco in search of who the adult Sean might have become. (Shadow Distribution)

Director: Ralph Arlyck

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Unrated

Runtime: 87 min

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J.R. Jones

What promises to be a standard postmortem on 60s ideology becomes a thoughtful essay on the choices we all make between work, family, and personal freedom. Read full review

Sean Axmaker

If Arlyck's own life feels unworthy of the attention, Sean's illuminating, unconventional and contemporary story makes up for it. Read full review

Ruthe Stein

At its exhilarating best, Following Sean is reminiscent of the lauded British documentaries that began with "7 Up.'' Read full review

Steven Mikulan

Sean's grandfather was the colorful longshore Communist Archie Brown, and part of the film's charm lies in its evocation of a generational mural that includes old Marxists, flower children and the progeny of red-diaper babies. Read full review

Drew Tillman

Arlyck's compulsion is to our great fortune. Patient and elegant, his film is a quietly devastating meditation on family, work, and the unrelenting passage of time. Read full review

Nathan Lee

What emerges is a liberal meditation on freedom and compromise, and a nostalgia trip graced by eloquent restraint. Read full review

V.A. Musetto

Arlyck spends more time following himself and his own lefty family than checking up on Sean. Read full review

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RaviR.

May 10, 2006

I know we tend to rate most highly those movies we've seen most recently, but I cannot recommend _Following Sean_ too highly. Engaging, funny, brilliant, simultaneously comforting and uncomfortable, and observant, the movie asks us to confront our own lives' narratives; received I know we tend to rate most highly those movies we've seen most recently, but I cannot recommend _Following Sean_ too highly. Engaging, funny, brilliant, simultaneously comforting and uncomfortable, and observant, the movie asks us to confront our own lives' narratives; received wisdom about the 1960s and even more recent American history; the meaning of adulthood, and a thousand other things. It made me think in a way films rarely can -- the way books more often can -- but couldn't possibly give me a headache. And as for technical elements, the editing and narration are perfect, and the granular texture of the film itself complements that of the families' stories. I actually loved _Following Sean_, and came upon this site while looking for information about whether it will ever be released as a DVD. I rarely buy movies, but I'll buy this one.… Expand

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