Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project | |
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Directed by | Matt Wolf |
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Edited by | Keiko Deguchi |
Music by | Owen Pallett |
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Running time | 87 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $54,566 [1] [2] |
Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project is a 2019 American documentary film directed by Matt Wolf about Marion Stokes [3] and the television news archive she created. [4] [5] [6]
Stokes captured 840,000 hours of news footage over the course of 35 years, from 1977 until her death in 2012; [7] [8] the VHS and Betamax video recordings were donated to the Internet Archive. [9] [10] [11] [12]
The Iran hostage crisis, which lasted from 1979 to 1981, made Stokes decide to make her project a round-the-clock job due to its continuous development as it happened. [13] [14] [15]
The film premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival and was released and distributed by Zeitgeist Films in association with Kino Lorber. [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] It was also submitted for Oscar consideration. [21]
The film has a 95% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The site's critical consensus reads, "Recorder: The Marion Stokes Story uses one person's singular quest to illuminate the blurred line between brilliance and obsession." [22]
The DVD and Blu-ray were released on March 10, 2020. [23]
A VHS edition of the documentary will be released by Lunchmeat between mid-to-late October of 2023. [24]
Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project | |
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Directed by | Matt Wolf |
Produced by |
|
Cinematography |
|
Edited by | Keiko Deguchi |
Music by | Owen Pallett |
Release date |
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Running time | 87 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $54,566 [1] [2] |
Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project is a 2019 American documentary film directed by Matt Wolf about Marion Stokes [3] and the television news archive she created. [4] [5] [6]
Stokes captured 840,000 hours of news footage over the course of 35 years, from 1977 until her death in 2012; [7] [8] the VHS and Betamax video recordings were donated to the Internet Archive. [9] [10] [11] [12]
The Iran hostage crisis, which lasted from 1979 to 1981, made Stokes decide to make her project a round-the-clock job due to its continuous development as it happened. [13] [14] [15]
The film premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival and was released and distributed by Zeitgeist Films in association with Kino Lorber. [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] It was also submitted for Oscar consideration. [21]
The film has a 95% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The site's critical consensus reads, "Recorder: The Marion Stokes Story uses one person's singular quest to illuminate the blurred line between brilliance and obsession." [22]
The DVD and Blu-ray were released on March 10, 2020. [23]
A VHS edition of the documentary will be released by Lunchmeat between mid-to-late October of 2023. [24]