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Ayn Rand - A Sense of Life
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Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life A Life More Compelling than Fiction A hymn to an original thinker NEW YORK PRESS Ayn Rand was born in 1905 in St. Petersburg,Russia. Escaping the death warrant of theSoviet state, she would later defy the culturaland political views of contemporary Americain such best-selling novels as...Review by Pat Kramer. Rated 3.5/5.
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Life provides viewers with an enriching historical perspective of the life and times of best-selling author Ayn (pronounced EYE-in) Rand of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged In this vivid film, writer/director/producer Michael Paxton has studiously assembled a montage of Rand's...The documentary is slavish and pedantic. Review by Janet Maslin in the New York Times. Requires free registration.
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Review by Mick LaSalle, in the San Francisco Chronicle. Ayn Rand was quite an interesting character, and the clips of her are worth seeing, although the tone of this film begins to grate.
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Documentary Helps Make Sense of Rand's Life For several generations of high school and college students growing up during the Cold War, Ayn Rand's individualist, pro- capitalist novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged were a blast of light in the collectivist darkness. Now, with communism no longer...Capsule review. Some juicy details, but most of the documentary is dry as dust. Rated 2.5/5.
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filmcritic.com Movie Review: Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life Get a job as a film critic!Read FIVE STARS! Exhaustive and exhausting biography of the influential writer, Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life provides more minutiae about the Russian emigre than you could ever possibly want to know. Some of...Review by Nicholas Patterson says that this is "less a documentary than a 145-minute panegyric to the author/philosopher."
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Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life The Boston Phoenix 04-06-98 For a film about the founder of Objectivism, Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life is not very objective. Less a documentary than a 145-minute panegyric to the author/philosopher, the movie plays as a long testament to the triumph of Ayn...Douglas Pratt reviews the biographical documentary on "the greatest bad writer of the 20th century."
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DVDLaser: the largest database of DVD reviews on the web Click on the book to buy from us, click on the Amazon link to buy from Amazon. Search All Articles DVD Reviews LD Reviews by Disc Title Article Text Title Or Text For Searching 7089 DVD reviews and 12071 LD...In-depth review of the documentary, by Richard Scheib. Rated 3/5.
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Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life (1997) If this documentary is to be believed its’ subject writer Ayn Rand was one of the great philosophers of the 20th Century, is someone who sells quarter of a million books a year even in posthumity and whose work, Atlas...Review by Andrea Chase.
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MMI Movie Review: Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life Fountainhead or saw the film based on it, but it's hard to find an architect who hasn't at least heard of it. Almost 20 years after her death, Rand's books, which also include Atlas Shrugged and We the Living continue...Credits, reader reviews and rating, awards and nominations.
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