With 2010 only a week over, it already feels like best-of and top-ten lists have been pouring in for months, and we’re already tired of them: the ranking, the exclusions (and inclusions), the rules and the qualifiers. Some people got to see films at festivals, others only catch movies on video; and the ability for us, or any publication, to come up with a system to fairly determine who saw what when and what they thought was the best seems an impossible feat. That doesn’t stop most people from doing it, but we liked the fantasy double features we did last year and for our 3rd Writers Poll we thought we'd do it again.
I asked our contributors to pick a single new film they saw in 2010—in theaters or at a festival—and creatively pair it with an old film they saw in 2010 to create a unique double feature.
I asked our contributors to pick a single new film they saw in 2010—in theaters or at a festival—and creatively pair it with an old film they saw in 2010 to create a unique double feature.
- 1/10/2011
- MUBI
[Our thanks to Frako Loden for offering her review of The Legend of Pale Male to the Twitch readership.]
It's December, and I was looking over the films I'd watched all year. I was also planning to participate in my first bird count--a winter reckoning of peregrine falcons in the San Francisco Bay Area. Then I saw Frederic Lilien's new documentary The Legend of Pale Male (2009), and it dawned on me that some of the most emotionally affecting footage I saw in 2010 didn't have a director and probably wouldn't even be considered film. The footage was from web cameras focused on nesting birds in various parts of California, and I needed to account for its power over me during the weeks and weeks I spent gazing at it on my computer screens this year.
But first, The Legend of Pale Male. Far from webcam footage, this tenderly told love story of a red-tailed hawk family and its human cheering section in New York's Central Park was made by Belgian immigrant Lilien,...
It's December, and I was looking over the films I'd watched all year. I was also planning to participate in my first bird count--a winter reckoning of peregrine falcons in the San Francisco Bay Area. Then I saw Frederic Lilien's new documentary The Legend of Pale Male (2009), and it dawned on me that some of the most emotionally affecting footage I saw in 2010 didn't have a director and probably wouldn't even be considered film. The footage was from web cameras focused on nesting birds in various parts of California, and I needed to account for its power over me during the weeks and weeks I spent gazing at it on my computer screens this year.
But first, The Legend of Pale Male. Far from webcam footage, this tenderly told love story of a red-tailed hawk family and its human cheering section in New York's Central Park was made by Belgian immigrant Lilien,...
- 12/8/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Summary: Touching, if clunky, story of a red-tailed hawk family eking out a living in a nest on Fifth Avenue, and the human one that gathers below.
Frederic Lilien’s documentary The Legend of Pale Male is a sweet story, if you can stay through to the end. The lo-fi quality makes it more exasperating than relatable, and the story at first jumps around in time too much. To root us: Lilien’s tale follows the titular red-tail through his various mates and nests, the most famous being on top of a Fifth Avenue co-op from 1991-2004.
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Frederic Lilien’s documentary The Legend of Pale Male is a sweet story, if you can stay through to the end. The lo-fi quality makes it more exasperating than relatable, and the story at first jumps around in time too much. To root us: Lilien’s tale follows the titular red-tail through his various mates and nests, the most famous being on top of a Fifth Avenue co-op from 1991-2004.
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- 11/27/2010
- by Natalie Zutter
- Filmology
The story of how New York went to the birds is contained in Frederic Lilien's documentary "The Legend of Pale Male." Pale Male, as you might remember, is the name given to a red-tailed hawk who captured the attention of residents, tourists and the press when he roosted atop a Fifth Avenue co-op building across from Central Park in the 1990s. His high-toned neighbors included Woody Allen and Mary Tyler Moore. Such a bird had not been seen in Manhattan for nearly a century,...
- 11/26/2010
- by By V.A. MUSETTO
- NYPost.com
Frederic Lilien's documentary "The Legend of Pale Male" documents a story dear to New Yorkers' hearts. The film, eighteen-years in the making, has gone on to win awards at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, and the Palm Beach International Film Festival among many others. In anticipation of the film's release this Wednesday, November 24 in New York, Lilien shared an exclusive scene from his documentary with indieWIRE. The Film ...
- 11/22/2010
- Indiewire
Frederic Lilien's documentary "The Legend of Pale Male" documents a story dear to New Yorkers' hearts. The film, eighteen-years in the making, has gone on to win awards at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, and the Palm Beach International Film Festival among many others. In anticipation of the film's release this Wednesday, November 24 in New York, Lilien shared an exclusive scene from his documentary with indieWIRE. The Film ...
- 11/22/2010
- indieWIRE - People
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