Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt

I think I started crying 5 minutes in and basically never stopped. Absolutely the most emotional, important, heartbreaking and deeply, utterly human documentary (if not work of art at large) that I've ever seen. There are no other words - this must be seen, and these…

Drew Edelstein

There are no words. There were only tears shed. One of the most important, humanistic pieces of filmmaking, much less documentary filmmaking, put to film. A capturing of a disease in real time that has taken so much, so many from us, but still has not been able to touch…

Leighton Trent

While I don't mean at all to trivialize a great film about a serious epidemic from the not so distant past, why is no one talking about the fact that ALF appears in this Oscar-winning documentary? I mean he's not even listed in the cast on here. ALF! #17 of 66 on Best…

Luke Bonanno

Powerful and sad. Listening to the parents talk about their kid’s last Christmas was powerfully moving. Glad no one was presented as a saint, just regular people who suffered a terrible illness.

Pottlekid

An incredibly moving portrait and emotional experience about the onset/first near-decade of the AIDS crisis. The interviews, sense of historical context, and commitment to a radical agitation of the human spirit really inspired me.

Angelica Jade Bastién🪼🌷

A film about love. 1989, best of

teamgal

I remember seeing Rob Epstein's earlier film Word is Out being described somewhere as being a 'tapestry' of gay life in America -- a description that becomes literal in this spiritual follow-up, which uses the AIDS Quilt as a frame to tell the stories of a group of people…

Liz

I met a guy in the doctor’s office a couple of months ago who told me that all his friends were dead. And it took a couple of seconds for me to sink into what I was hearing. He was a 32 year old guy who said I only have acquaintances now…left. And what’s even more…

michelle grondine

Such a moving documentary. One where people aren't just talking heads, but rather storytellers and keepers of memory & history, sharing the memory of their loved ones who died of AIDS-related illnesses. The film weaves their stories with the AIDS Memorial Quilt project…

Maria