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The Old Curiosity Shop in Dope the movie ('68)
Caro, Kip, Ziska, Loren..looking in window of exotic wares shop.
"Dope is no mere “fly-on-the wall” piece; the filmmakers lived with the subjects of their film, were their friends and as such are part of Dope too. One of the film’s many strong points is that it does not take sides or make moral judgements about the assortment of people and lifestyles that it depicts. In Dope, Diane and Sheldon Rochlin pushed the documentary format into new territory: 90 minutes of rapid montages are accompanied by a multi-layered soundtrack of voices, fleeting narrators, music and significant silences. Dope, by seeking to have the effect of the very thing that it depicts, simultaneously transcends the period it was made yet reveals to us the very essence of the era."--Ian O'Sullivan,
Shindig!Magazine, Jan'09
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"Dope is no mere “fly-on-the wall” piece; the filmmakers lived with the subjects of their film, were their friends and as such are part of Dope too. One of the film’s many strong points is that it does not take sides or make moral judgements about the assortment of people and lifestyles that it depicts. In Dope, Diane and Sheldon Rochlin pushed the documentary format into new territory: 90 minutes of rapid montages are accompanied by a multi-layered soundtrack of voices, fleeting narrators, music and significant silences. Dope, by seeking to have the effect of the very thing that it depicts, simultaneously transcends the period it was made yet reveals to us the very essence of the era."--Ian O'Sullivan,
Shindig!Magazine, Jan'09
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