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The Windmill Movie (2009)

ALL 06/17/2009 (en) Documentary 82 Min
  • Release
    06/17/2009
  • Production
    HBO Documentary Films
  • Rotten tomato
    70%
  • Original title
    The Windmill Movie
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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Overview

Filmmaker Richard P. Rogers tried for twenty years to make a documentary about his own life. He died in 2001, leaving the project unfinished, until his widow, acclaimed photographer Susan Meiselas, commissioned his former student Alexander Olch to make a film out of the pieces. Starting in the Hamptons, in the town of Wainscott, the film weaves Rogers' footage into a journey through childhood memories, a less than encouraging mother, a family background of privilege, and Rogers' persistent, dogged attempts to document his own life. Rogers' friend, actor and writer Wallace Shawn, joins in the process, as the film investigates the differences between documentary and fiction, and tells the tragic story of Rogers' life.

  1. Alexander Olch

    Director

  2. Story



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The Windmill Movie (2009) 82 Min

ALL 06/17/2009 (en)
Documentary
  • Release 06/17/2009
  • Production
    HBO Documentary Films
  • Original title The Windmill Movie
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

Filmmaker Richard P. Rogers tried for twenty years to make a documentary about his own life. He died in 2001, leaving the project unfinished, until his widow, acclaimed photographer Susan Meiselas, commissioned his former student Alexander Olch to make a film out of the pieces. Starting in the Hamptons, in the town of Wainscott, the film weaves Rogers' footage into a journey through childhood memories, a less than encouraging mother, a family background of privilege, and Rogers' persistent, dogged attempts to document his own life. Rogers' friend, actor and writer Wallace Shawn, joins in the process, as the film investigates the differences between documentary and fiction, and tells the tragic story of Rogers' life.

  1. Alexander Olch

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Alexander Olch

    Editor

  4. David Grubin, Susan Meiselas

    Producer



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