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This So-Called Disaster
Directed by
Michael Almereyda
R
2003
89m
Documentary
6.3
89%
64%
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Director Michael Almereyda's documentary on the weeks just prior to Sam Shepard's stage production of his play "The Late Henry Moss."
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Cast of This So-Called Disaster
Sean Penn
Ray
Nick Nolte
Earl
Cheech Marin
Esteban
Sheila Tousey
Chonchella
T Bone Burnett
Self
Sam Shepard
Self
James Gammon
Self
Woody Harrelson
Taxi Driver
This So-Called Disaster Ratings & Reviews
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
One of the finer peeks into the creative process of staging a play.
E! Online
A fractured but compelling piece of reality theater.
Arizona Daily Star
Phil Villarreal
Lets us hang out with, and really meet for the first time, artists we thought we already knew.
Los Angeles Times
Manohla Dargis
In its vision of the push-and-pull of rehearsal and the revelation of how a play comes to breathing, snorting life onstage, Almereyda's video brings us close to the act of creation.
L.A. Weekly
Scott Foundas
In the end, what takes shape is not just a significant unraveling of Shepard's taciturn mystique, but a potent sense of the pain and rigor of revealing oneself through art.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
Ultimately, you leave This So-Called Disaster with renewed respect for Shepard, who comes off as a kind of quiet hero: a man of words, confronting his past with little fuss, and from it creating a legacy.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Bill White
As a portrait of a collaborative artist at work, the film is an invaluable document, not to be missed by anyone with more than a passing interest in theater.
About.com
Jurgen Fauth
One of the most pleasurable documentaries in recent memory.
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein
Theater lovers are likely to find the film interesting even when it zigs and zags.
Slate
David Edelstein
It's fun to see actors doing what they do and to see them through the eyes of a director.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
An unbridled orgy of uninhibited Stanislavsky.
Variety
Scott Foundas
Not as insightful as Topsy-Turvy or Vanya on 42nd Street about the process of putting on a show, it's nonetheless a fascinating meeting of the minds.
Spirituality & Practice
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
An engaging behind-the-scenes look at playful creativity.
Filmcritic.com
Chris Barsanti
One imagines that Almereyda thought he could simply act as a fly on the wall ... and have a compelling document on the creation of live theater.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
Anyone interested in the challenges and techniques of acting -- which is really to say, anyone interested in human behavior -- should turn off E! and head down to Film Forum, where Mr. Almereyda's film opens today.
Newsday
Jan Stuart
Given Almereyda's access and the level of talent before him, it conveys surprisingly little about the character-building techniques of Shepard's formidable cast.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Offers a rare, fly- on-the-wall view of three Hollywood bad boys -- Sean Penn, Nick Nolte and Woody Harrelson -- as they rehearse for a play in San Francisco in the fall of 2000.
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
Among the many skills required by a documentary maker is the ability to make reticent people blossom. Michael Almereyda has done that in This So-Called Disaster.
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Michael Almereyda's low-budget documentary about nothing more cataclysmic than the process of staging a play.
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
Both resonant and skillfully devious.
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