USA,
1991, 60 min
Shown in 1992
CREDITS
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Alan Berliner
- source
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Alan Berliner
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COMMENTS
Shown with The Inland Sea. Alan Berliner in person.
OTHER
Intimate Stranger is an invigorating and spirited look at the peripatetic life and roiling times of one man's existence. As a Brooklyn kid, Alan Berliner helped his grandfather, Joseph Cassuto, a Palestinian Jew raised in Egypt and employed in Japan, with his autobiography. Made 20 years after Cassuto's death, this film is a personal, yet global, investigation, carried out with the conflicting memories of a fractious family, a fluid sense of cinema, a keen irony and a deep affection for a very shaded subject. Intimate Stranger is documentary storytelling of a very high order.
—Laurence Kardish, Sundance Film Festival
FACTOID #10
In 1960, Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita, which has inspired many women to jump into fountains, was pulled from the San Francisco International Film Festival’s program by the distributor and replaced with Roberto Rossellini’s Night over Rome.
