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
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A moving portrait of an astounding life. Full Review |
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... takes you to where Tobias Schneebaum has been and in an engrossing manner lets you see why he went there. Full Review |
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Intriguing if somewhat leisurely documentary on anthropologist/artist Tobias Schneebaum. Full Review |
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The Shapiros ... ultimately reveal a frail but mentally robust old man whose gnawing hunger for knowledge led him to shun a safe, comfortable career in art for a series of radically transformative experiences at the world's edges. Full Review |
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An engaging testimony to the courage of one man's quest into the unknown. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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Schneebaum, a dull and helpless-looking nonentity at first glance, proves to be an amazingly courageous, inquisitive, remarkable man. Full Review |
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What's really intriguing is the journey into a man's heart and intellect. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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The film mostly succeeds, and that's thanks to Schneebaum himself, who has an extraordinary screen presence. Full Review |
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