Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project
30 years of television. 24 hours a day. 70,000 tapes
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 27 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 10, 2020
- Originally Released: 2019
- Label: Zeitgeist Films
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Directed by | Matt Wolf | |
| Composition by | Owen Pallett |
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Rating: 2.5/4 --
The camera doesn't love Stokes, but it certainly respects her. The intensity of her presence is unmistakable. That intensity is attested to, not always favorably, by the various people we hear from in "Recorder."
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Boston Globe
This is a really fascinating documentary... The movie gets into these definitions of what is the difference between calling someone a hoarder or a collector?
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FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
Rating: B --
"Recorder" shows the link between Stokes' brilliance and her craziness, and the damaging effects of obsessive behavior to the quality of a life lived. She was documenting the story, but "Recorder" shows how, in a way, she became the story.
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Detroit News
In Recorder, Wolf paints a compelling portrait of a woman whose unambiguous hoarding tendencies made it difficult to identify her enormously valuable media archival project as anything beyond yet another obsession
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Film International
But more than its occasional resemblance to a very special episode of "Hoarders," Wolf's strange, sad and finally exhilarating portrait is one of radical consumerism turned into a searchable legacy - the viewer as activist.
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Los Angeles Times
Press play and be amazed.
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Hammer to Nail
Stokes remains something of an enigma, but watching Recorder, one thing becomes clear: We can learn a lot from the ability to rewind.
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Hyperallergic
Product Description:
Director Matt Wolf's documentary spotlights activist archivist Marion Stokes' life's work: a comprehensive collection of television news broadcasts from 1979 to 2012. It showcases her unusual life as a former librarian, an African-American Communist radical, an eccentric wife, mother, and employer, and the historical and cultural significance of the 70,000 VHS tapes of television footage that she left behind (which is now managed by the Internet Archive in San Francisco).
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- UPC: 738329244422
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