“Turn All Pages”: Film Review | Tribute 2022

There are two holes in my shelves, spaces for the long-awaited albums from my favorite literary series. one is for winter windGeorge RR Martin volume six A Song of Ice and Fire Series. One is for the fifth and final part of Robert Caro Lyndon Johnson’s Years.

If I were offered to start reading one of the books tomorrow, I wouldn’t hesitate to buy Karo’s book.

Meanwhile, Lizzie Gottlieb’s new documentary turn all pages Whet that appetite even more, instead of nodding, “Hell, stop doing other things and finish your book like I asked!” Subtitled “The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb” turn all pages This is a totally sexy gift for a pampered type of lover, and I am very much like that. I watched for 112 minutes and enjoyed watching more.

turn all pages It is the story of two Bobs, one of whom is the father of a filmmaker.

Karo is the author of four volumes. Lyndon Johnson’s YearsAlso a Pulitzer Prize winner. power broker. He is simultaneously one of the most prolific and prolific writers of the last century and, of course, one of the most important historians of 20th century America.

Gottlieb is the former editor-in-chief of Knopf, Titan Publishing, whose authors include Tony Morrison, Ray Bradbury, Salman Rushdie, Nora Efron and Bill Clinton. Found and helped transfer 22 bags. Since 1970, he has been the editor-in-chief of Karo.

Caro is 86 years old. Gottlieb is 91 years old. Both men sincerely considered that LBJ’s latest book could be the culmination and end of their careers, and joked that it was the end of their lives.

Lizzie Gottlieb worked turn all pages For at least five years. A certain amount of time was spent getting the two men comfortable with him – time well spent, even if Karo and Gottlieb’s solo scene really works together, you have to shoot an honest but jealous Karo with no sound. To insist.

turn all pages You have rewards no matter what level of detail according to Karo/Gottlieb you might want.

Long memories remain of the origin of their collaboration, including 350,000 words. power broker Which should be cut not for excess or bad quality, but for fear that the binding simply won’t hold all those pages. There are stories of breakthroughs that Caro experienced when he realized he didn’t want to do the Fiorello LaGuardia biography, for which he had already signed a contract. power brokerWhen he decided he had to move to Texas for a few years to pursue Johnson’s youth and take some steps. Not all casual viewers would be mad at Robert Caro and his wife, Ina, for seeing him sitting around a box of documents at Austin’s LBJ Library, but for the documentary’s documentary demonstration, it’s like taking pictures of Mozart with a stack of blank documents. piano sheet music

Gottlieb doesn’t do anything interesting when it comes to general structure or aesthetics. turn all pagesBut he has a patience that was very clearly passed down to him by his father. This is also clearly in keeping with Caro, as is evident when he frequently highlights and details the challenges that LBJ’s brother Sam tells stories from his childhood and explains the method that ended up breaking Sam’s approach to hagiography. The truth. This is a story that takes a few minutes to tell and some documentary filmmakers would cut it down to 30 seconds. This way is much better.

After retiring, Gottlieb made a film that more generally deals with writing, editing and publishing, creativity and creativity. This includes incredible details like a Karo carbon paper collection for every word he’s typed over the years on his typewriter; Or Gottlieb thinks of separate words that Caro abuses; Or general observations about different forms of editing methodology, how every editor is different and every writer is different, and how this unique and obviously often controversial partnership developed. The scale of Karo’s project may have heightened her appreciation of her writing and Gottlieb’s role in that writing, and this is accentuated by the countless pages of prose or the sound of prose being read by famous admirer Ethan. Hawk.

Finally, another setback is the level at which turn all pages It’s incredibly personal. Caro and Gottlieb’s encounter with Lizzie Gottlieb covers, in part, all of the interviews that explain why the stories take place. turn all pages It’s compelling even if you’ve read interviews with any man or read Karo’s half memoirs. To work. Furthermore, Lizzie Gottlieb represents what could have been different hands writing, copying, taking notes and treating a drunk, dry, irrational person with genuine emotional flow. You will never lose sight of the fact that this is a film about two men struggling to complete their life’s work, that this is a daughter who stands up for her father’s legacy and the love that mortality brings to all relationships. He is as sincere as he is wise.

turn all pages It is by no means a sad documentary. This is just a documentary about making sure that when you watch the ending, you get the right ending. It’s quite universal and very moving, whether you’ve read the thousands of pages of Robert Caro’s writings and the thousands of pages edited by Robert Gottlieb.