USA,
1996, 60 min
Shown in 1997
CREDITS
- dir
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Alan Berliner
- prod
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Alan Berliner
- cam
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D.W. Leitner, Phil Abraham
- editor
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Alan Berliner
- source
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Cine-Matrix, 13 Vestry Street, 4th Floor New York, NY 10013. FAX: 212-226-521 3
- gga award
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Golden Spire, Film & Video: First Person Documentary
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COMMENTS
Shown with The Miniskirted Dynamo; part of the Memoirs and Meditations series.
OTHER
Alan Berliner’s earlier film, Intimate Stranger, was an invigorating and spirited look at his mysterious grandfather. With Nobody’s Business, he takes on his father. Son of Jewish immigrants, Oscar Berliner was a perfect 1940s man: a stolid, hardworking, honorable guy who fitted in best with his World War II Army buddies. Then he married glamorous, exotic aspiring actress Regina, with whom he was classically ill-matched. Now long divorced and retired into a bitter, reclusive old age, Oscar stubbornly resists the idea of being the subject of a motion picture. “My life is nothing,” he insists. Home movie and found footage wryly punctuate the quasi-Oedipal duel between the stoic, clam-like father and his stubborn, prying son. But what initially seems like a one-sided battle ends up generating immense perverse sympathy for this difficult old man.
FACTOID #162
The Stand-In (1985), Nina Takes a Lover (1994), Dream for an Insomniac (1996), Dream with the Fishes (1997), Teknolust (2002) and Dopamine(2003) were not only screened at Festival but were also shot in San Francisco.
