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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.
17 October 1915, Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
15 September 1962, Roxbury, Connecticut, USA
1 January 1895, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
1 February 1901, Cadiz, Ohio, USA
8 March 1959, Chicago, Illinois, USA
7 September 1909, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire [now Istanbul, Turkey]
1 October 1921, White Plains, New York, USA
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].
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 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.
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
[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 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 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.