Film Forum will present the US theatrical premiere of Gerald Fox’s Leaving Home, Coming Home: A Portrait of Robert Frank, beginning Wednesday, May 29. The movie was shot in 2004, but only now is being released in the US. Gareth Evans, writing in Time Out (London) calls the film a “superb document. The fact that this feature portrait of perhaps the world’s greatest (but previously unforthcoming) photographer exists at all is reason enough for celebration. That it’s also an authoritative, remarkably candid and often moving study is manna indeed… It follows the Swiss-born, Stateside artist, who changed the very nature of visual practice with his definitive ’50s publication The Americans, as he looks back on his life from the perspectives of New York and coastal Nova Scotia. Frank is entirely open and demythologizing about his images and films, marriage and family,
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