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Laura Israel on ‘Don’t Blink: Robert Frank’ and Subject Matter Dictating Documentary Form
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Laura Israel on ‘Don’t Blink: Robert Frank’ and Subject Matter Dictating Documentary Form

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Christopher Campbell
Oct 14, 2015
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By Jamie Maleszka

New York Film Festival

An unconventional life calls for an unconventional telling. Laura Israel’s biographical portrait of iconoclast photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank is tailor-made to its subject. Unorthodox in structure and aesthetic, Don’t Blink: Robert Frank is an associative mosaic with a rock-and-roll heartbeat, a blend of the photographer’s blac…

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