Notes on Blindness

  • 2016


MOVIE IS australian extraordinary wonderful religious academic
Close Video

65 %
94 % Fresh
$ 0 Million
See Where to Watch Notes on Blindness
Positive Reviews 24
Negative reviews 2
Average Rating 4.1/5
australian extraordinary wonderful religious academic

  • All
  • Positive
  • Negative
4.0
This moving doc is built on audiotapes made by an academic as his eyesight failed You cant help but become acutely aware of your eyesight if youre luc .. Time Out
3.1
But you can keep the VR element.It cant compete with the real thing for me. Rogerebert
4.0
Directors: James Spinney and Peter Middleton.U cert; 90 mins John Hull, a professor of religious education at Birmingham University, went blind in 198 .. Telegraph
3.5
Working with those original tapes, the filmmakers create art out of what too often is a documentary stopgap. Village Voice
3.5
English writer and theologian John Hull, who went blind in the early 1980s and kept an audio diary of his experience, is the subject of this thought p .. Chicago Reader
5.0
Who knew that a tale of blindness could be so visionary and so beautifully photographed on screen The Times
4.0
Although the transcript of his diary was eventually published under the title Touching the Rock, after seeing this its almost hard to imagine that any .. Radio Times
4.0
Although there could be few subjects more depressing than this one, Hulls spirituality and humanity shine through in his radiantly intelligent and dee .. Film Journal
4.0
Almost.It is a thoroughly absorbing and moving film, especially when Hull has a dream about recovering his sight and seeing his children. The Guardian
5.0
Cinemas paradoxical fascination with sightlessness has spawned movies as diverse as Terence Youngs 1967 thriller Wait Until Dark, Takeshi Kitanos 2003 .. The Guardian
5.0
The journey towards that is the basis of a deeply moving and unexpectedly uplifting film. Flim List
4.5
Hulls reflections touch on areas the sighted rarely stop to consider, such as the way that still photos are easier to remember than actual physical mo .. Eye For Film
1.9
What all these have in common is a way of approaching the subject, making due with bodily loss through optimistic mourning, by making that loss a fund .. Slant Magazine
5.0
In 1983, John M. Hull, a professor of religion at the University of Birmingham in England, lost his eyesight and began the agonizing personal journey .. The New York Times
4.0
This is not a portrait of silent suffering or unalloyed stoicism. The Irish Times
5.0
Producers have delivered a virtual reality accompaniment to the film, which allows users to partly put themselves in Hulls shoes. Hollywood Reporter
5.0
The actors bring the visual emotion and embodiment to the recordings, but its the Hulls voices on the tapes themselves are so remarkable honest and se .. Los Angeles Times
5.0
Yet it works as an imaginative counterpoint to the more purely documentary aspects of the film. Raidió Teilifís Éireann
3.0
It combines documentary and fiction, but feels more like it aspires towards fiction and is weighed back by its documentary baggage. Lw Lies
4.0
Notes on Blindness requires a level of effort on the viewer to garner a full appreciation, but it is worth it. Nz Herald
5.0
Notes on Blindness is an extraordinary film that wears its original genius lightly. The Arts Desk
4.5
Fantastic Beasts suffers from the ailment that most blockbusters suffer from: too much spectacle and not enough truth. Nyc Movie Guru
4.0
With the exception of John and Marilyn, faces are obscured, which feels right: why should we be allowed to see their son (or the actor playing him) wh .. New States Man
2.0
Much of the conversation between John and Marilyn is quite dull, and Notes on Blindness is, if nothing else, a quiet celebration of domesticity and ma .. Film Ireland
5.0
Perhaps you have sometimes wondered: how would you even begin to make a film about going blind and being blind and what that means... Even if thats so .. Spectator
4.5
Eloise Ross writes and teaches about film in Melbourne, Australia, and is a member of the Australian Film Critics Association. Seventh Row



See Where to Watch Notes on Blindness