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In Reply to: RE: Excuse me! Are you the same unpleasant person whose own film " lacks historical depth" and rates a C... posted by clarkjohnsen on July 14, 2007 at 06:53:17

And yes, the Boston Globe didn't like the film and although it was "recommended" by the NY Times they were also rather critical of it. Oh, and by the way, my hometown paper, The Washington Post, also gave it a bit of a thumbs down.

On the other hand it received a large number of professional rave reviews, has a "Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and...

It was picked up for national distribution by Miramax, opened in over 70 cities nationwide, won over 15 festival awards, a National Emmy nomination, a Christopher Award (for creative work that "affirms the highest values of the Human Spirit), and was named "One of the Five Best Documentaries of 2004" by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures." In the Palm Springs Film Festival in which appeared all five of that year's academy award feature doc nominees, my film was given the "Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature." It also played in heavy rotation on HBO for a year which means people wanted to see it.

Finally, if you check out the Amazon viewer ratings you will encounter a film which has, to date, received 42 viewer reviews. There was one 4-star review that called it "inspiring" and "a great documentary," and ALL the rest are 5-star reviews.

So, I don't have any problem taking the bad reviews along with the good...and I guess a lot depends on which review you look at!
Elliot

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