Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project
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Directed by | Matt Wolf |
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Edited by | Keiko Deguchi |
Music by | Owen Pallett |
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Running time | 87 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $54,566[1][2] |
Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project is a 2019 documentary film directed by Matt Wolf about Marion Stokes and the television news archive she created.[3][4][5]
Summary[]
Stokes captured 840,000 hours of news footage over the course of 35 years, from 1977 until her death in 2012;[6] the VHS and Betamax video recordings were donated to the Internet Archive.[7][8][9]
Release and reception[]
The film premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival and was released and distributed by Zeitgeist Films in association with Kino Lorber.[10][11][12][13][14]
The film has a 95% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The site's critical consensus reads, "Recorder: The Marion Stokes Story uses one person's singular quest to illuminate the blurred line between brilliance and obsession."[15]
See also[]
- Input – Public-access television talk show featured in the film
- Iran hostage crisis
- September 11 attacks
- Sandy Hook shooting
- Fake news
References[]
- ^ "Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
- ^ "Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project". The Numbers. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
- ^ Gleiberman, Owen (2019-04-26). "Tribeca Film Review: 'Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project'". Variety. Retrieved 2019-12-03.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Kenny, Glenn (2019-11-14). "'Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project' Review: A VCR Obsession". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-12-03.
- ^ Wexner Center of the Arts
- ^ Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project review: 35 years of life reflected by TV|The Digital Fix
- ^ Winsor, Morgan (2013-12-09). "TV producer Marion Stokes' 840,000 hours of news tapes to be archived". CNN. Retrieved 2020-06-30.
- ^ Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project review – the woman who kept the TV on for 30 years|Documentary films|The Guardian
- ^ The Endangered Internet Archive Is Full of Treasures|Gizmodo Australia
- ^ "Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project | 2019". Tribeca. Retrieved 2019-12-03.
- ^ "Review: A woman recorded television 24 hours a day for 30 years. This doc tells her story". Los Angeles Times. November 27, 2019.
- ^ Carey, Matthew (December 2, 2019). "Oscar-Contending Doc 'Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project' Reveals "Reclusive Activist" Behind Massive News Archive". Deadline.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Kay, Jeremy (2019-08-06). "Zeitgeist Films, Kino Lorber team up on 'Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project' (exclusive)". Screen. Retrieved 2020-02-21.
- ^ 15 highlights at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival in NYC - CBS News
- ^ "Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango. Retrieved October 30, 2021.
External links[]
Categories:
- 2019 films
- English-language films
- Biographical documentary films
- American documentary films
- American films
- Documentary films about African Americans
- 2019 documentary films
- Collage film
- Collage television
- Documentary films about television