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The Projectionist

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  • 1hr 21m
  • 65

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Director:

Abel Ferrara

Producer:

Michael M. Bilandic, Joshua Blum, Christos V. Konstantakopoulos

Runtime:

1hr 21m

Synopsis

The film director converses with the proprietor of a Cinema complex in Queens about the 1970s era of film making and exhibition in New York City, when things were edgier and sleazier than they are in today's cleaned up scene.

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75
May 7, 2019

A thin but heartfelt piece of work ... But with Ferrara content to let his subject mostly drive the show and not impose more of an authorial vision and context that could have created a grander narrative about the history of moviegoing in New York, the passion is missing.

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Metacritic review by Chris Barsanti
Chris Barsanti
The Playlist
83
May 3, 2019

The joy of Ferrara’s The Projectionist is simply in getting to know its subject.

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Metacritic review by John Fink
John Fink
The Film Stage
60
May 2, 2019

For cinephiles, this will be effective propaganda in service of a belief they already hold, a reaffirmation of their purist convictions from a simpatico mind. ... [But it] can sometimes slip into slightness, as Ferrara pads an already slim run time.

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Metacritic review by Charles Bramesco
Charles Bramesco
The Guardian
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