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Film Portrait (1972)

Directed by Jerome Hill · 80 min · Documentary

2.5 TOPICAL score · #6,468 of 6,776 films

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The life of Jerome Hill corresponded with the first formative decades of cinema and a greater part of the 20th century. Through fragments of Hill’s surrealistic, handpainted and documentary films (as well as the James J. Hill family's home movies), this autobiographical work serves as an aesthetically complete documentary of Jerome Hill as an artist and offers a personal perspective of the seventh art.

Film Portrait (1972, directed by Jerome Hill) has a TOPICAL score of 2.5 - ranked 6,468 of the 6,776 films TOPICAL scores. It scores highest on historical impact and lasting engagement, and lowest on awards. Audiences: TMDB 6/10 (7 ratings). Wikipedia covers it in 4 languages, and the Library of Congress chose it for the National Film Registry.

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Starring: Jerome Hill, Maud Oakes

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