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Set your DVRs for tonight at 10 if you want to see one of the best docs of the year. In Following Sean, presented by the stellar doc series POV on KERA (Channel 13), filmmaker Ralph Arlyck goes in search of Sean Farrell, the subject of a short film Arlyck made in 1969. Back then, Sean was a precocious San Francisco four-year-old who looked into Arlyck's camera and talked about smoking pot. Outrage ensued. In the new film, Arlyck catches up with Sean. But he also does much more. Following Sean is a model of the personal-essay-as-film format, and a clear-eyed, unsentimental look at the legacy of an era. It neither scorns nor celebrates in assessing a time and place so often reduced to a cultural stereotype. "I don’t romanticize it, which is not to say there are not a lot of things that I love about it," says Arlyck in a phone interview. "But I don’t feel particularly nostalgic about it, and I didn’t want to make a nostalgic movie. I feel ambivalent about the period, and that expressed itself in the film." Look for more from Arlyck as we look at facts, myths and marketing of the Summer of Love this Sunday at dallasnews.com. |
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