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Time



What does the weight of time's passage feel like for a family caught in the jaws of a brutal carceral system? Both a breathtaking cinematic love story and a bruising indictment of American injustice, the Academy Award–nominated feature documentary debut of Garrett Bradley traces the decades-long quest of Sibil Fox Richardson, an indefatigable mother of six and a fiercely outspoken prison abolitionist, to free her husband from the Louisiana State Penitentiary, where he is serving a sixty-year sentence for robbery. Gracefully interweaving twenty years' worth of Richardson's own intimate home movies with luminously expressive monochrome footage of her present-day joys and struggles, Bradley crafts in Time a transcendentally poetic, soul-shaking look at the devastating toll of mass incarceration and one family's extraordinary efforts to stay whole.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• New 4K digital master, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• New audio commentary featuring director Garrett Bradley
• New interview with Time's subjects, Sibil Fox and Robert Richardson
• New conversation between Bradley and critic and author Hilton Als
• Alone (2017), a short documentary by Bradley, with optional 2021 commentary by the film's subject, Aloné Watts
• Trailer
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• English descriptive audio
• PLUS: An essay by critic Doreen St. Félix

This is I believe the first film in the collection to feature an appearance from the Impractical Jokers.

This month's releases (with Dick Johnson Is Dead and a Thomas Vinterberg film) feel like an unofficial nod to David Ehrlich's Top 25 of 2020! I was particularly hoping for a chance to see Time.

Ribs wrote: Fri Oct 15, 2021 4:49 pm This is I believe the first film in the collection to feature an appearance from the Impractical Jokers.

Sold. "Larry!"

I actually thought this was Kim Ki-duk's film at first