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12/06/05
Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale (2001)
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Reviews Counted:48
Fresh:37
Rotten:11
Average Rating:6.6/10
Consensus: Keep the River on Your Right places the spotlight on a fascinating individual, Tobias Schneebaum.
Theatrical Release:Mar 30, 2001 Limited
Synopsis: This extraordinary documentary is the story of 78-year-old Tobias Schneebaum, a seemingly mild-mannered man who has lived an amazing life. Schneebaum grew up in Brooklyn, studied to be a Rabbi and... [More]
Director: David Shapiro, Laurie Gwen Shapiro
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Reviews for Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale
There's no denying the warmth of Schneebaum's encounters, or his engaging nature. Or the fact that you've never seen a documentary quite like this one, and aren't likely to again.
05/25/01
This stranger-than-fiction account is well worth the trip up the river.
04/08/01
Once allowances are made, this particular journey of personal discovery becomes pretty amazing.
04/20/01
... takes you to where Tobias Schneebaum has been and in an engrossing manner lets you see why he went there.
12/18/02
An extraordinarily absorbing documentary.
05/14/01
Debuting documentary directors David Shapiro and Laurie Gwen Shapiro, with Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale, get something very right about the genre: They know a good subject when they see it.
05/14/01
Along the way, Schneebaum reverts from a lonely old man singing for his supper in the salons of New York to the adventurer he once was and apparently will always be. And this metamorphosis is the film's real discovery.
11/16/01
What begins as a curious document, then, evolves into something more.
05/14/01
Top CriticNo review available.
08/19/05
Provides a fascinating glimpse of how the human spirit struggles with, shades, rationalizes and finally accepts the shocks of unfamiliar and unpleasant reality.
05/04/01
An extraordinary documentary about an unusual man whose questing spirit is a marvel to behold.
03/30/01
A fascinating if somewhat unfocused documentary.
10/11/01
Top CriticMakes for fascinating, compelling viewing.
05/21/01
Top CriticThe film mostly succeeds, and that's thanks to Schneebaum himself, who has an extraordinary screen presence.
06/04/01
May be a film of missed opportunities and unanswered questions, but it has an unsinkable man at its center who is never less than transfixing.
07/02/01
One of the best and most intriguing documentaries to hit the screen in quite some time.
03/27/01
Highly recommended.
05/09/01
A moving portrait of an astounding life.
10/08/03
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