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Arthur Miller: Writer
Rebecca Miller's film is a portrait of her father, his times and insights, built around impromptu interviews shot over many years in the family home. This celebration of the great American playwright is quite different from what the public has ever seen. It is a close consideration of a singular life shadowed by the tragedies of the Red Scare and the death of Marilyn Monroe; a bracing look at success and failure in the public eye; an honest accounting of human frailty; a tribute to one artist by another. Arthur Miller: Writer invites you to see how one of America's sharpest social commentators formed his ideologies, how his life reflected his work, and, even in some small part, shaped the culture of our country in the twentieth century.
7 September 1909, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire [now Istanbul, Turkey]
17 October 1915, Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
5 August 1906, Nevada, Missouri, USA
27 January 1948, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
16 July 1956, New York City, New York, USA
14 February 1902, Brooklyn, New York, USA
1 February 1901, Cadiz, Ohio, USA
27 August 1908, Stonewall, Texas, USA
1 June 1926, Los Angeles, California, USA
8 March 1959, Chicago, Illinois, USA
15 September 1962, Roxbury, Connecticut, USA
20 August 1956, Rochelle, Illinois, USA
5 February 1938, New York City, New York, USA
6 November 1931, Berlin, Germany
1 January 1895, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
20 April 1889, Braunau am Inn, Upper Austria, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
16 September 1927, New York City, New York, USA
5 August 1911, Filley, Nebraska, USA
9 May 1918, Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
March 16, 2018
Much worse is her fractured retelling of the events surrounding Miller's confrontation with the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and its investigation of Hollywood's Communist Party in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
March 22, 2018
A thoughtful and ethically illuminating documentary
December 03, 2017
She interviewed [her father] for decades...Adds personal and archival photographs, home movies, and talks with relatives and friends, this is a warm and intimate reflection.
March 26, 2018
A bit slow in the early chapters devoted to Miller's family history, the documentary takes off once the playwright's career kicks into gear.
March 19, 2018
[It] is a thorough and thoroughly excellent documentary about a very significant 20th century writer. It's also thoroughly excellent in its presentation of the larger and more universal quandaries around how children understand their parents
March 19, 2018
... the comprehensive documentary "Arthur Miller: Writer" (HBO, 8 p.m.) the author of "Death of a Salesman" and so many other works is warm, thoughtful and expansive, probably because he's talking to his daughter [director Rebecca Miller].
December 07, 2017
There's an eloquent handmade quality to "Arthur Miller: Writer," filmmaker Rebecca Miller's engagingly intimate portrait of her famous father.
March 19, 2018
That documentary, which airs on HBO Monday night, is a true labor of love-a charming 100-minute film that offers an insider's account of a complicated life.
