Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself

Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself (2012)

Plimpton! tells the story of writer, editor, amateur sportsman and friend to many, George Plimpton. Using Plimpton’s own narration – along with thoughts and stories from friends, family and contemporaries – the film is a joyful celebration of a life lived fully, richly, strangely, and, at times, a life that is hard to believe was actually lived by just one man.

Data di uscita
2012-10-03
TMDB
7.7 / 10 (6)
Durata
1 h 29 min
Regista
Tom Bean, Luke Poling

Cast

Curiosità

Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself is a 2013 American documentary film directed by Tom Bean and Luke Poling about the writer George Plimpton, who was a co-founder of The Paris Review and contributor to the participatory journalism genre.

Production

The film features Plimpton as principal narrator and interviews with Hugh Hefner, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mel Stuart, Walon Green, Philip Gourevitch, James Salter, Christopher Cerf, Jonathan Dee, Jay McInerney, Gay Talese, Peter Matthiessen, Ken Burns, Mike Milbury, Robert Silvers, Taylor Plimpton and James Lipton, amongst others. The film was produced by Bean, Poling, Adam Roffman and Terry McDonell.

It took filmmakers Bean and Poling five years to make the film, as they searched through archival material and assembled the film's story. Their goal was to have Plimpton posthumously act as the film's narrator. Poling said the archival material was in the form of "audio tapes, video tapes, 8mm film reels — every type of format you could think of both currently in use and long extinct — that we had to go through to find the footage for the film."…

Talking about the film in interviews to promote its theatrical release, the filmmakers said, "Making our movie was an adventure, and a wonderful one at that. We often said that if you simply had to think about and study one person for years and years, George Plimpton was a pretty good guy to pick."

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