Arthur Miller: Writer
Filmmaker Rebecca Miller presents a portrait of her father, the prolific American playwright Arthur Miller.
5 August 1911, Filley, Nebraska, USA
7 September 1909, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire [now Istanbul, Turkey]
1 June 1922, New York City, New York, USA
1 January 1895, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
16 July 1956, New York City, New York, USA
1 June 1926, Los Angeles, California, USA
6 November 1931, Berlin, Germany
5 August 1906, Nevada, Missouri, USA
20 April 1889, Braunau am Inn, Upper Austria, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
8 March 1959, Chicago, Illinois, USA
27 January 1948, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
20 August 1956, Rochelle, Illinois, USA
16 September 1927, New York City, New York, USA
27 August 1908, Stonewall, Texas, USA
17 October 1915, Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
1 October 1921, White Plains, New York, USA
5 February 1938, New York City, New York, USA
9 May 1918, Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
15 September 1962, Roxbury, Connecticut, USA
14 February 1902, Brooklyn, New York, USA
1 February 1901, Cadiz, Ohio, USA
March 19, 2018
That documentary, which airs on HBO Monday night, is a true labor of love-a charming 100-minute film that offers an insider's account of a complicated life.
March 19, 2018
... the comprehensive documentary "Arthur Miller: Writer" (HBO, 8 p.m.) the author of "Death of a Salesman" and so many other works is warm, thoughtful and expansive, probably because he's talking to his daughter [director Rebecca Miller].
March 16, 2018
Much worse is her fractured retelling of the events surrounding Miller's confrontation with the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and its investigation of Hollywood's Communist Party in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
March 26, 2018
A bit slow in the early chapters devoted to Miller's family history, the documentary takes off once the playwright's career kicks into gear.
December 07, 2017
There's an eloquent handmade quality to "Arthur Miller: Writer," filmmaker Rebecca Miller's engagingly intimate portrait of her famous father.
December 03, 2017
She interviewed [her father] for decades...Adds personal and archival photographs, home movies, and talks with relatives and friends, this is a warm and intimate reflection.
March 19, 2018
[It] is a thorough and thoroughly excellent documentary about a very significant 20th century writer. It's also thoroughly excellent in its presentation of the larger and more universal quandaries around how children understand their parents
March 22, 2018
A thoughtful and ethically illuminating documentary
