Film Geek

2023

Documentary

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IMDb Rating 7.5/10 10 137 137

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Plot summary

Film Geek is a joyous and emotional look back at a movie obsessed kid growing up in New York City, and his relationship with his mysterious father. Crafted entirely out of film clips from over 2,000 movies, as well as his personal archives, Emmy and DGA-award winning director Richard Shepard mines the material for clues to understand his own DNA.

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903.55 MB
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English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 38 min
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1.81 GB
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23.976 fps
1 hr 38 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Jimmy_the_Gent4 8 / 10

A Real Treat For Film Buffs

Film maker Richard Shepard tells of his obsession with movies during the 1970s and 1980s and his relationship with his mysterious father.I just saw this at the Film Forum in NYC. It is great documentary for film fans. Shepard has directed some TV and only a few films, The Matador (2005) with Pierce Bronson is probably the most famous.Shepard talks of his father who got him into film and he never knew what his dad did for a living, but he did mix with some shady people.The film clips are amazing from over 200 films, running the gamut from Citizen Kane to porno.He also give some extra time to some films that really impressed him like King Kong (1933), The Taking Of Pelham One Two Three (1974 and Rocky (1976).Shepard is a New Yorker so he shows the city in film during the 1970s and 1980s, with clips of gritty grimy era of The French Connection and Death Wish.He also pays tribute to long gone NY movie theaters that I myself have been to.If you can, try to seek this out.
Reviewed by boblipton 7 / 10

Good Movies And Bad

Film maker Richard Shepherd takes us on a tour of his mysterious loan-shark father, his Jacqueline-Kennedy-beautiful mother, and the movies he saw from the middle of the 1970s and the 1980s as he grew up in the seemingly endlessly crumbling New York City.It's ninety-five minutes of him talking, with clips and stills, and cartoons and at first I hated it. Then, as it went on, I realized that this was his equivalent of Tavernier's Voyage à travers le cinéma français and the reality of film-making good and bad: there's something in it for the person who truly loves movies. Because if you love movies, you love the bad stuff as much as the good, the 95% that's crud informs the remaining 5%, and indeed sometimes has fleeting moments of greatness. And don't let anyone tell you different.
Reviewed by Sees All 10 / 10

Unique and delightful

I loved this movie! It's an autobiographical documentary by writer-director Richard Shepard about growing up in New York during the 70s and 80s when New York was at its worst period-filthy, crime-ridden, and spooky. But what New York had going for it then was all these wonderful movie theatres that showed foreign movies, classic films, and revivals along with the new releases. Shepard practically spent his entire teen years in those theatres that are now virtually all gone. Shepard's film was composed during the covid lockdown entirely from clips of other movies, along with an occasional drawing. It's about a boy being in love with movies. His mentor was his father, a mysterious man who didn't seem to have a regular job and went by several aliases. The movie is as much about his relationship with his father as much as it is about his relationship with movies. This is very much a homemade movie, lovingly cobbled together from the resources available. (He recorded his amateurish, sing-songy voiceover narration on his cellphone.) But the ultimate result is pretty dazzling. It's charming, delightful, funny, and (in some ways) profound. I'd recommend it to anyone who loves the movies and/or New York. This will be a classic. How could I not give it a 10?
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