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The Color Of Time
The film blends together adaptations of 11 of the poems to create a poetic road trip through Pulitzer prize-winning CK Williams'; life.
11 December 1971, Hamilton, Ohio, USA
11 September 1990, Los Angeles, California, USA
22 April 1991, Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina
14 August 1983, Chernovtsy, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Chernivtsi, Ukraine]
1 October 1998, Morristown, New Jersey, USA
16 August 1984, Livonia, Michigan, USA
19 April 1989, Detroit, Michigan, USA
22 June 1958, Birmingham, Michigan, USA
24 March 1977, Sacramento, California, USA
19 April 1978, Palo Alto, California, USA
6 April 1975, South Orange, New Jersey, USA
February 24, 2016
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.
December 16, 2014
The Color of Time serves as a reminder that literalizing and adapting poetry for the screen is usually not a good idea.
December 11, 2014
Franco makes a lot of art, both good and bad. But no one provides a bolder example of the vanishing lines that used to separate movie stars, fringe artists, and working actors.
December 11, 2014
"The Color of Time," for all the experimentalism of its conception, falls some way short here, and ends up an irreproachably tasteful, easily digestible, but an unsurprising, undemanding watch.
June 13, 2016
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.
December 13, 2014
Probably should have stayed in the classroom.
December 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.
January 30, 2015
This dreamlike film, directed by twelve graduate students from New York University, fails to make celebrated American poet C.K. Williams much more than a mildly interesting daydream. Despite its top acting talent, it even inspires a deeper sleep.
December 10, 2014
The uniformity of its languorous, lens-flared visuals may wear on all but the most ardent Terrence Malick devotees, many of whom, I suspect, are also grad students.
December 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.
December 12, 2014
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.
December 11, 2014
A cool concept, and A for effort.