Escapes

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Escapes

2017

1h 29m

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The life of actor and "Blade Runner" screenwriter Hampton Fancher.

Scott Marks

San Diego Reader

Aug 25, 2017

4/5

Be it divine intervention or just pure dumb luck, Fancher never lost his foothold on the fringes of cinema. He lived his life as if it was a movie waiting to be made.

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Peter Hartlaub

San Francisco Chronicle

Aug 16, 2017

3/4

A half-dozen true Hollywood stories are presented in "Escapes," all offered in a matter-of-fact style that seems detached from typical celebrity brand-building and false humility.

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Kenneth Turan

Los Angeles Times

Aug 10, 2017

"Escapes" is as unconventional as its subject, demonstrating the charming things that can happen when a life in no way ordinary gets documented by a filmmaker most unusual.

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Michael J. Casey

Michael J. Cinema

Apr 26, 2021

3.5/5

To make it in Hollywood, you got to have duende, and Hampton Fancher has duende in spades.

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Jon Hogan

Hyperallergic

Feb 7, 2020

Michael Almereyda's brilliant documentary Escapes presents a massive backlog of images from the career of actor and screenwriter Hampton Fancher, tinging it with Fancher's own keen self-awareness.

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Glenn Heath Jr.

San Diego CityBeat

Aug 21, 2018

Escapes feels like a fitting and strange tribute to someone whose robust intimacy with life remains just as complicated today.

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Oct 17, 2018

This documentary on the life and career of Hampton Fancher is definitely not told in an ordinary doc way, and thus may not appeal to everyone. But Fancher, who co-wrote the screenplay for the groundbreaking classic sci-fi movie Blade Runner (1982) and subsequently The Mighty Quinn (1989), The Minus Man (1999) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017), led, from adolescence on, an incredible and fascinating life. Early on the film is very disjointed, in my opinion, but as it progressed I got more adjusted to its style and felt it became much more coherent. It's only, though, in the final 20 minutes that we get the backstory of how Fancher, along with others, was able to bring Blade Runner to the screen. Be aware there were no subtitles available on my DVD copy and there is explicit language throughout the movie.

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Aug 17, 2017

One of the most surprising documentaries I've ever seen. What a life.

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The life of actor and "Blade Runner" screenwriter Hampton Fancher.

Director: Michael Almereyda
Producer: Michael Almereyda
Screenwriter: Michael Almereyda
Distributor: Grasshopper Film
Production Co: Survival Media
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 26, 2017, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): May 8, 2018
Runtime: 1h 29m

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