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Release date: May 24, 2019
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Director-producer-editor Chuck Smith deserves kudos for exhuming the spirit of this complex, contradictory, largely forgotten soul. June 13, 2019 | Full Review…
Director-producer-editor Chuck Smith deserves kudos for exhuming the spirit of this complex, contradictory, largely forgotten soul.
Gary Goldstein
At once accessible and formally daring, echoing its subject's style while simultaneously celebrating her radical achievements. May 30, 2019 | Full Review…
At once accessible and formally daring, echoing its subject's style while simultaneously celebrating her radical achievements.
Nick Schager
An evocative portrait of a vibrant and mysterious artist. May 25, 2019 | Full Review…
An evocative portrait of a vibrant and mysterious artist.
Sheri Linden
An informative and overdue documentary... May 23, 2019 | Full Review…
An informative and overdue documentary...
Glenn Kenny
There are sections that vibrate with avant-garde energy - Smith uses a lot of experimental film footage to set the scene... October 25, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
There are sections that vibrate with avant-garde energy - Smith uses a lot of experimental film footage to set the scene...
Alison Gillmor
While Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground isn't for everyone, Smith's documentary is worth a look for any fans of the New York counterculture movement. September 23, 2019 | Full Review…
While Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground isn't for everyone, Smith's documentary is worth a look for any fans of the New York counterculture movement.
Monique Vigneault
As close as we're likely to get to a genuine biography of one of cinema's most elusive artists. August 1, 2019 | Rating: 7/10 | Full Review…
As close as we're likely to get to a genuine biography of one of cinema's most elusive artists.
Andrew Parker
In Chuck Smith's bittersweet profile, critics, filmmakers, and friends pay testament to Rubin's talent, energy, and startling lack of inhibition. July 26, 2019 | Full Review…
In Chuck Smith's bittersweet profile, critics, filmmakers, and friends pay testament to Rubin's talent, energy, and startling lack of inhibition.
Kathy Fennessy
Reanimates the young Jewish woman who challenged men's alt-culture...with her vulva images, charisma, and artistic matchmaking...Imperfectly integrates her disparate lives. June 22, 2019 | Rating: 8/10 | Full Review…
Reanimates the young Jewish woman who challenged men's alt-culture...with her vulva images, charisma, and artistic matchmaking...Imperfectly integrates her disparate lives.
Nora Lee Mandel
It may be much too short, but pound for pound, minute for minute, there are few biographical documentaries more impressive than this. May 25, 2019 | Full Review…
It may be much too short, but pound for pound, minute for minute, there are few biographical documentaries more impressive than this.
Joshua Brunsting
Perhaps one day film will indeed change the world for the better, but for now, all we can do is watch and experience what's left of the experimental media of that time and wistfully remind ourselves of what we missed. May 24, 2019 | Rating: 7/10 | Full Review…
Perhaps one day film will indeed change the world for the better, but for now, all we can do is watch and experience what's left of the experimental media of that time and wistfully remind ourselves of what we missed.
Paul Parcellin
A story about a unique personality who personified the toll that living in the avant-garde took. May 24, 2019 | Full Review…
A story about a unique personality who personified the toll that living in the avant-garde took.
Louis Proyect
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