2019 American film
Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project Directed by Matt Wolf Produced by Kyle Martin Andrew Kortschak Walter Kortschak Cinematography Chris Dapkins Matt Mitchell Edited by Keiko Deguchi Music by Owen Pallett Release dates
April 25, 2019 (2019-04-25 ) (Tribeca ) November 15, 2019 (2019-11-15 ) (USA) Running time
87 minutes Country United States Language English Box office $54,566[ 1] [ 2]
Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project documentary film directed byMatt Wolf aboutMarion Stokes [ 3] 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] video recordings were donated to theInternet Archive .[ 9] [ 10] [ 11] [ 12]
TheIran 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]
Release and reception [ edit ] The film premiered at the 2019Tribeca Film Festival and was released and distributed byZeitgeist Films in association withKino Lorber .[ 16] [ 17] [ 18] [ 19] [ 20] Oscar consideration .[ 21] Input , was published in Fall of 2023.[ 22]
The film has a 95% rating onRotten 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."[ 23]
The DVD and Blu-ray were released on March 10, 2020.[ 24]
AVHS edition of the documentary was released byLunchmeat VHS in 2023.[ 25]
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