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The Thoughts That Once We Had

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Filmmaker Thom Anderson explores the history of cinema.

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Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter 06/14/2016
A consummately individualistic document defined by a thousand tastes and as many enthusiasms but compromised by its creator's unfortunate decision to allow his own cinephiliac testament to be distorted and partly subsumed. Go to Full Review Jeannette Catsoulis New York Times 06/02/2016
Even if you don't recognize the majority of the unidentified clips assembled here, or the quotations that divide and guide them, the fascination they exert is all their own. Go to Full Review A.A. Dowd AV Club 06/02/2016
B-
It's a bit like watching a seminar by a professor who's misplaced a few of his slides. Go to Full Review A.S. Hamrah n+1 05/01/2018
Andersen's interest in the hard-boiled and his terse use of quotations and images-as-quotations allies his film with late David Markson novels. Go to Full Review Bradley Gibson Film Threat 03/29/2017
7/10
This is a fascinating meditation on film and history and if you're not careful, you just might learn somethin'. Go to Full Review Robert Roten Laramie Movie Scope 02/07/2017
C+
Even though the film's structure didn't really hang together, and the scenes didn't really seem to mesh all that well with the philosophical inter-titles, there are a lot of good film clips in this, and some thought-provoking material, too. Go to Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Filmmaker Thom Anderson explores the history of cinema.
Director
Thom Anderson
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Runtime
1h 48m