The Color of Time

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The Color of Time

R

2012

1h 12m

Drama

Biography

Romance

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Memories of the past -- from his first sexual encounter to a tragic loss -- haunt poet C.K. Williams as he struggles to create new works.

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Simon Abrams

RogerEbert.com

Dec 12, 2014

1/4

Based on Pulitzer Prize-winning poet C.K. Williams's autobiographical work, "The Color of Time" is about poetry, though it has none to speak of.

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Robert Abele

Los Angeles Times

Dec 11, 2014

"The Color of Time" is an odd bird in that its 12 cooks don't necessarily spoil the broth. The problem is that they leave it as broth.

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Nicolas Rapold

New York Times

Dec 11, 2014

The film is too sincere an expression of admiration for this poet's work to feel pretentious, but it's like a music video for the poems, often literal in its biographical readings.

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Nathan Heller

Vogue

Apr 26, 2017

The Color of Time... is the bad chapbook poetry of movies: uncontrolled, gratuitously moody, missing its own point.

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Mark Jackson

Epoch Times

Jun 13, 2016

2.5/5

Either Franco thinks his every creative whim doesn't stink, and we should be delighted to sample all his artistic endeavors, or he's a selfless, mentoring, caring teacher.

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Jared Mobarak

The Film Stage

Feb 24, 2016

D+

The idea of students collaborating with a stable of famous actors is a wonderful story in itself, but to then treat the culmination of the exercise as more than a student thesis film does it a disservice.

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steve d

@RT35616104 Dec 6, 2022

As rediculous as its name.

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Jun 15, 2021

I like the collaboratory concepts. The execution is amateurish. Self-congratulatory. Banal. He claims to love women but it's all about him.

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Sep 21, 2015

a fresh take on poets and poetry!

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Feb 22, 2015

art house film that was boring and dead.

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Jan 28, 2015

artsy fartsy pretentious boring

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Jan 9, 2015

This may have been one of the worst movies I watched all year. I realize these are students that made this and the material isn't that great but this was awful. It felt like it dragged forever and it was only an hour and 15 minutes. The stellar cast is given absoluelty nothing to do and James Franco has the most annoying character.

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Synopsis

Memories of the past -- from his first sexual encounter to a tragic loss -- haunt poet C.K. Williams as he struggles to create new works.

Director: Alexis Gambis, Edna Luise Biesold, Sarah-Violet Bliss, Gabrielle Demeestere
Producer: Edward Bass, James Franco, Shruti Ganguly, Vince Jolivette
Screenwriter: Edna Luise Biesold, Sarah-Violet Bliss, Gabrielle Demeestere, Alexis Gambis
Production Co: Rabbit Bandini Productions
Rating: R (Language|Drug Use|Nudity|Some Sexuality)
Genre: Drama, Biography, Romance
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 2, 2014
Runtime: 1h 12m

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