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David Stratton: A Cinematic Life: With David Stratton, Jill Bilcock, Jacki Weaver, P.J. Hogan. For most people, movies are entertainment. For one man, they're a way of life.
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- 2017-03-09
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David Stratton: A Cinematic Life 2017 List. 82% Tomatometer 11 Reviews 78% Audience Score Fewer than 50 Ratings Read More Read Less. Reviews Cast & Crew More Like This Photos Media Info.
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May 22, 2017 · Screening in the Cannes Classics section, which this year is dedicated to the history of film itself, A Cinematic Life centers on 77-year-old David Stratton, a kind of Roger Ebert figure on the ...
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- Looking Back on Life
- And Now For Something Completely Different…
- Examining The Details
- Conclusion
Starting with his childhood back at England in 1946, Stratton’s fascination with watching films and documenting his experiences started with the British film The Overlanders. Spending all his free time watching everything that hit the cinema, the film documentsStratton’s journey from England to Australia, where a job at the Sydney Film Festival sta...
These pieces start to feel like interruptions because Stratton’s life stories and retellings of his various experiences are genuinely interesting and present the film critic in a new light. There’s quite a few stories and elements of Stratton‘s life that I was never aware of before seeing this documentary and I found most of them quite surprising a...
Another problem that these history segments cause is that they heavily overtake the running time of the documentary (which is just under 100 minutes). Due to the focus on these parts, many details about David Stratton’s life are left out. Huge chunks of Stratton‘s life are glossed over, most notably his 10 year time of doing At the Movies with Marg...
Despite these elements, David Stratton: A Cinematic Life is a genuinely sympathetic and warmhearted look at one of Australia’s most prominent media figures. Whilst frequently disruptive and seemingly erratic in nature, the diverse look at Australia’s cinematic history and its relation to Stratton’sabsorbing background provides plenty of material fo...
- Alex Lines
A compelling personal journey with David Stratton, as he relates the fascinating development of our cinema history. David guides us from his boyhood cinema experience of Australia in England, where he saw the first images of this strange and exotic landscape via the medium of film, to his migration to Australia as a ‘ten pound pom’ in 1963 and onto his present day reflections on the iconic ...
This is not surprising, given that it’s difficult to make someone who has spent most of his life in a darkened cinema sound interesting (Stratton estimates he has seen 25,000 films). While his passion for film is well documented in the film, and his vast knowledge is self-evident, Stratton the man remains elusive.
