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Rebecca Miller’s film, a portrait of her father, his times and insights, built around impromptu interviews shot over many years in the family home, is a celebration of the great American playwright different from what the public has ever seen.
20 April 1889, Braunau am Inn, Upper Austria, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
5 August 1906, Nevada, Missouri, USA
16 September 1927, New York City, New York, USA
1 February 1901, Cadiz, Ohio, USA
14 February 1902, Brooklyn, New York, USA
1 October 1921, White Plains, New York, USA
5 August 1911, Filley, Nebraska, USA
20 August 1956, Rochelle, Illinois, USA
9 May 1918, Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
15 September 1962, Roxbury, Connecticut, USA
5 February 1938, New York City, New York, USA
1 June 1926, Los Angeles, California, USA
16 July 1956, New York City, New York, USA
8 March 1959, Chicago, Illinois, USA
7 September 1909, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire [now Istanbul, Turkey]
27 August 1908, Stonewall, Texas, USA
17 October 1915, Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
1 June 1922, New York City, New York, USA
1 January 1895, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
6 November 1931, Berlin, Germany
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.
December 07, 2017
There's an eloquent handmade quality to "Arthur Miller: Writer," filmmaker Rebecca Miller's engagingly intimate portrait of her famous father.
March 22, 2018
A thoughtful and ethically illuminating documentary
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.
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
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
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].
