A closeup look at infidelity.
A true story.
An eavesdropper's dream.
OUT OF SIGHT (1995)
90 minutes 35mm, D1, Beta SP, VHS 1/2 inch VHS
Broadcast nationally on P.O.V., the critically acclaimed PBS series of America's finest non-fiction films.
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"David Sutherland has spent the past decade trying to redefine the stylistic limits of the documentary. With OUT OF SIGHT he goes further, creating what ... is closer to soap opera than the traditional talking heads documentary." |
| Daniel M. Kimmel, VARIETY |
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"A fascinating immersion in the intimate details of a stranger's life ... a great film ... pushes the documentary to a new level." |
| Edward Guthmann, THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE |
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[Three and a half stars] "Twin Peakish non-fiction story of a blind cowgirl who loves independence and sex." |
| Michael Blowen, THE BOSTON GLOBE (***1/2) |
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"OUT OF SIGHT is an uncompromised, unexpected take on a blind woman, but what a blind woman! Put away all your politically correct assumptions ... Starin is a hellion out of a 1940's Hollywood film noir." |
| Gerald Peary, THE IMPROPER BOSTONIAN (***) |
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"OUT OF SIGHT is to blind women what THELMA AND LOUISE is to sighted women." |
| THE NATIONAL BRAILLE PRESS |
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"Sutherland straps us in for a ride through the surreal soap opera ... few Hollywood movies these days give as good a ride." |
| Betsy Sherman, THE BOSTON GLOBE (***1/2) |
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"It's hard to say what is more surprising, the story itself or the fact the Starin and the people close to her have chosen to reveal themselves on camera in such painfully intimate and image tarnishing ways." |
| Michael Wilmington, CHICAGO TRIBUNE |
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"Filmmaker David Sutherland calls OUT OF SIGHT a 'soap-umentary.' Combining elements of a Jenny Jones or Ricki Lake talk show, Thelma and Louise, Unsolved Mysteries, and some latter-day John Ford movie, it is like nothing anybody has ever seen." |
| Jonathan Storm, Philadelphia Inquirer |
Gold Award for Documentary Feature, World Fest Charleston, 1994
Berlin International Film Festival, 1994
Chosen as The Best of the American Film Institue International Film Festival, 1994
Outstanding Independent Documentary, New England Film and Video Festival, 1995
