Time (2020 film)
{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2022}}{{Infobox film
| name = Time
| image = Time poster.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Promotional release poster
| director = Garrett Bradley
| producer = {{Plainlist|
- Garrett Bradley
- Kellen Quinn
- Lauren Domino
}}
| writer =
| starring = {{Plainlist|
- Sibil Fox Richardson
- Robert G. Richardson
}}
| music = {{Plainlist|
- Jamieson Shaw
- Edwin Montgomery
}}
| cinematography = {{Plainlist|
- Zac Manuel
- Justin Zweifach
- Nisa East
}}
| editing = Gabriel Rhodes
| production_companies = {{Plainlist|
- Concordia Studio
- The New York Times
- Outer Piece
- Hedgehog Films
}}
| distributor = Amazon Studios
| released = {{Film date|2020|1|25|Sundance|2020|10|9|United States}}
| runtime = 81 minutes{{cite web|url=https://www.sundance.org/projects/time|title=Time|website=Sundance Film Festival|access-date=June 4, 2020|url-status=dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200201105014/https://www.sundance.org/projects/time |archive-date=February 1, 2020}}
| country = United States
| language = English
| budget = < $10 million{{Cite web |url=https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/borat-2-viewership-numbers-amazon-opening-weekend-mulan-1234816491/ |work=Variety |date=October 27, 2020 |access-date=October 27, 2020 |last=Spangler |first=Todd |language=en-US |title= Borat{{nbsp}}2 Drew 'Tens of Millions' of Viewers Over Opening Weekend, Amazon Says}}
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Time is a 2020 American documentary film produced and directed by Garrett Bradley. It follows Sibil Fox Richardson and her fight for the release of her husband, Rob, who was serving a 60-year prison sentence for engaging in an armed bank robbery.
The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 25, 2020, where Bradley won the US Documentary Directing Award, the first African-American woman to do so. It was released theatrically on October 9, 2020, and digitally on Amazon Prime Video on October 16, 2020 by Amazon Studios. In addition to being nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 93rd Academy Awards, it was also one of the few documentary films to ever sweep "The Big Four" critics awards (LA, NBR, NY, NSFC).
Synopsis
The film follows Sibil Fox Richardson (also known as Fox Rich), an entrepreneur, self-described abolitionist, author, and mother of six, as she fights for the release of her husband, Rob, serving a 60-year prison sentence in the Louisiana State Penitentiary for his participation in an armed bank robbery. Rich served three and a half years for her role in the robbery while Rob was granted clemency by then-Louisiana governor John Bel Edwards in 2018 after he served 21 years in prison. The film combines original footage with home videos.{{Cite web |last=Félix |first=Doreen St |date=2022-01-18 |title=Time: Time in the Mind |url=https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/7661-time-time-in-the-mind |access-date= |website=The Criterion Collection |language=en}}{{cite news |last1=Linden |first1=Sheri |title='Time': Film Review |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/time-review-1271894 |access-date=13 August 2020 |publisher=The Hollywood Reporter |date=25 January 2020}}{{cite news |last1=Morgan |first1=Jillian |title=Amazon Studios acquires Garrett Bradley Sundance doc "Time" |url=https://realscreen.com/2020/02/21/amazon-studios-acquires-garrett-bradley-sundance-doc-time/ |access-date=13 August 2020 |publisher=Real Screen |date=21 February 2020}}{{cite news |last1=Ehrlich |first1=David |title='Time' Review: A Poignant and Monumental Portrait of Mass Incarceration in America |url=https://www.indiewire.com/2020/02/time-review-documentary-garrett-bradley-1202208104/ |access-date=13 August 2020 |publisher=Indiewire |date=3 February 2020}}
Production
Bradley met Rich in 2016 while working on her short film Alone, a New York Times Op-Doc.{{cite news |last1=Clark |first1=Ashley |title=The Past in the Present |url=https://filmmakermagazine.com/109888-the-past-in-the-present/#.XxWtSZNKiL5 |access-date=13 August 2020 |publisher=Filmmaker |date=7 July 2020}} She intended to make a short documentary about Rich, but when shooting wrapped, Rich gave Bradley a bag of mini-DV tapes containing some 100 hours of home videos she had recorded over the previous 18 years. At that point, Bradley developed the short as a feature.{{cite news |last1=Taubin |first1=Amy |title=Interview: Garrett Bradley |url=https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/interview-garret-bradley/ |access-date=13 August 2020 |publisher=Film Comment |date=31 January 2020}}{{cite news |last1=Dobbins |first1=April |title=Time and Mucho Mucho Amor Top Miami Film Festival 2020's Documentary Offerings |url=https://www.miaminewtimes.com/arts/review-mucho-mucho-amor-and-time-at-miami-film-festival-2020-11578663 |access-date=13 August 2020 |publisher=Miami New Times |date=4 March 2020}}
Time was shot on a Sony FS7 camera in black and white. It was selected for the 2019 Sundance Documentary Edit & Story Lab.{{cite news |title="Feels as if Time Is Unspooling in Front of Our Eyes": Editor Gabriel Rhodes on Time |url=https://filmmakermagazine.com/109017-feels-as-if-time-is-unspooling-in-front-of-our-eyes-editor-gabriel-rhodes-on-time/#.XxWtNpNKiL5 |access-date=13 August 2020 |publisher=Filmmaker |date=25 January 2020}} The score features original compositions by Jamieson Shaw and Edwin Montgomery,{{cite news |last1=Saito |first1=Stephen |title=Sundance 2020 Review: Garrett Bradley Conveys the Great Power of "Time" |url=http://moveablefest.com/garrett-bradley-time/ |access-date=13 August 2020 |publisher=Moveable Fest |date=29 January 2020}} as well as music by Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou that was recorded in the 1960s.{{cite news |last1=Smith |first1=Michael Glover |title=Interview with TIME director Garrett Bradley |url=https://www.cinefile.info/blog |access-date=12 October 2020 |publisher=Cinefile}} The film was produced by Lauren Domino, Kellen Quinn, and Bradley. Laurene Powell Jobs, Davis Guggenheim, Nicole Stott, Rahdi Taylor, and Kathleen Lingo are executive producers, Jonathan Silberberg and Shannon Dill are co-executive producers, and Dan Janvey is co-producer.
Release
Time had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 25, 2020.{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sundance-2020-unveils-female-powered-lineup-taylor-swift-gloria-steinem-films-1259538?|title=Sundance Unveils Female-Powered Lineup Featuring Taylor Swift, Gloria Steinem, Abortion Road Trip Drama|website=The Hollywood Reporter|first=Tatiana|last=Siegel|date=December 4, 2019|access-date=June 4, 2020}} In February 2020, Amazon Studios acquired its distribution rights.{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/amazon-nabs-sundance-doc-time-5-million-1280116|title=Amazon Nabs Sundance Doc 'Time' for $5 Million (Exclusive)|website=The Hollywood Reporter|first=Tatiana|last=Siegel|date=February 20, 2020|access-date=June 4, 2020}} It also screened at the New York Film Festival on September 20, 2020.{{Cite web |last=Rubin |first=Rebecca |date=2020-08-13 |title=Garrett Bradley's Documentary 'Time' Sets Theatrical Debut Before Launching on Amazon Prime Video (EXCLUSIVE) |url=https://variety.com/2020/film/news/garrett-bradley-time-release-date-amazon-1234731976/ |access-date= |website=Variety |language=en-US}}{{cite web|url=https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2020/daily/58th-new-york-film-festival-main-slate-announced/|title=58th New York Film Festival Main Slate Announced|website=New York Film Festival|date=August 13, 2020|access-date=August 13, 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2020/films/time/|title=Time|website=New York Film Festival|access-date=August 29, 2020}} It was released theatrically on October 9, 2020, and on Amazon Prime Video on October 16, 2020.{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2020/film/news/garrett-bradley-time-release-date-amazon-1234731976/|title=Garrett Bradley's Documentary 'Time' Sets Theatrical Debut Before Launching on Amazon Prime Video (EXCLUSIVE)|website=Variety|first=Rebecca|last=Rubin|date=August 13, 2020|access-date=August 13, 2020}}
= Home media =
In March 2021, it was announced that Time, One Night in Miami... and Sound of Metal would receive DVD and Blu-Ray release by the Criterion Collection.{{Cite web|last=Sharf|first=Zack|date=2021-03-05|title=Amazon's 'Sound of Metal,' 'Time,' and 'One Night in Miami' to Join Criterion Collection|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2021/03/sound-of-metal-one-night-in-miami-criterion-collection-1234621545/|access-date=2021-03-29|website=IndieWire|language=en}}
Reception
=Critical response=
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, Time holds an approval rating of {{RT data|score}} based on {{RT data|count}} reviews, with an average rating of {{RT data|average}}. The site's critics consensus reads: "Time delivers a powerful broadside against the flaws of the American justice system – and chronicles one family's refusal to give up against all odds."{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/time_2020|title=Time (2020)|website=Rotten Tomatoes|publisher=Fandango|access-date={{RT data|access date}}}} At Metacritic the film has a weighted average score of 91 out of 100, based on 23 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".{{cite web |url= https://www.metacritic.com/movie/time-2020 |title= Time Reviews |website=Metacritic | access-date=October 28, 2020 }}
Peter Debruge of Variety wrote that the film "will almost certainly rewire how Americans think about the prison-industrial complex" as it "challenges the assumption that incarceration makes the world a safer place."{{cite news |last1=Debruge |first1=Peter |title='Time': Film Review |url=https://variety.com/2020/film/festivals/time-review-sundance-1203490243/ |access-date=13 August 2020 |publisher=Variety |date=4 February 2020}} Sheri Linden of The Hollywood Reporter called the film "gripping," describing it as a "concise and impressionistic account of love and waiting, of the American justice system and the fight to keep a family whole." David Ehrlich of Indiewire gave it an A− and wrote, "Bradley's monumental and enormously moving Time doesn't juxtapose the pain of yesterday against the hope of tomorrow so much as it insists upon a perpetual now. And while the documentary never reduces its subjects to mere symbols of the oppression they represent – the film couldn't be more personal, and it builds to a moment of such unvarnished intimacy that you can hardly believe what you're watching."
Justin Chang of the Los Angeles Times said the film is "a dazzling formal feat, but more than that, it's a profoundly sad movie about what it means to grow up without a father, to absorb that blow continually, day after day."{{cite news |last1=Chang |first1=Justin |title=Kenneth Turan and Justin Chang wrap up the 2020 Sundance Film Festival |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2020-02-03/sundance-2020-wrap-turan-chang |access-date=13 August 2020 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=3 February 2020}} Ashley Clark of Filmmaker magazine wrote that the film's "graceful compositions, flowing sonic landscape and at times breathtaking interpolation of Fox Rich's home video archive footage cohere to form a singularly powerful experience."
Kevin Jagernauth of The Playlist, however, stated that the film "wants the viewer to empathize with the very turmoil this family endured" yet felt that there were many gaps left unsolved (Robert turning down the plea bargain, Rich's nephew accompanying the robbery and so on).{{Cite web |date=2020-01-27 |title='Time' Clocks An Uneven & Incomplete Portrait Of Injustice [Sundance Review] |url=https://theplaylist.net/time-review-sundance-20200127/ |access-date= |website=theplaylist.net}}
=Accolades=
At the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, Bradley won the Directing Award in the U.S. Documentary competition,{{cite web |title=Directing Award: U.S. Documentary — Time |url=https://www.sundance.org/projects/award-winner-tba-13 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200611151250/https://www.sundance.org/projects/award-winner-tba-13 |archive-date=June 11, 2020 |access-date=June 4, 2020 |website=Sundance Film Festival}} becoming the first African-American woman to win in that category.{{cite news |last1=Boone |first1=Keyaira |title=Black Women Take Home Top Directing Awards At Sundance Film Festival |url=https://www.essence.com/entertainment/black-women-directing-sundance-film-festival/ |access-date=13 August 2020 |publisher=Essence |date=3 February 2020}} At the 2020 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, the film won the Center for Documentary Studies Filmmaker Award and the Charles E. Guggenheim Emerging Artist Award.{{cite web |title=2020 Award Winners |url=https://www.fullframefest.org/award-winners/ |website=fullframefest.org |access-date=13 August 2020}} It won the James Blue Award at the 2020 Ashland Independent Film Festival.{{cite news |last1=LaBerge |first1=Madison |title=Ashland Independent Film Festival announces winners virtually |url=https://fox26medford.com/ashland-independent-film-festival-announces-winners-virtually/ |access-date=13 August 2020 |publisher=Fox 26 Medford |date=17 June 2020}}
| class="wikitable"
|+ !Award !Date of Ceremony !Category !Recipient !Result !Ref. |
| Academy Awards
|Garrett Bradley, Lauren Domino and Kellen Quinn |{{nom}} |
| Film Independent Spirit Awards
|Time |{{nom}} |{{Cite web |last1=Galuppo |first1=Mia |last2=Lewis |first2=Hilary |date=2021-01-26 |title=Film Independent Spirit Awards: 'Never Rarely Sometimes Always,' 'Minari,' 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom,' 'Nomadland' Top Nominations |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/independent-spirit-awards-nominations-list-2021-4121856/ |access-date= |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=January 26, 2021 |title=SPIRIT AWARDS NOMINATIONS (2021) {{!}} Presenters Olivia Wilde, Barry Jenkins & Laverne Cox |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y94VGVZg_SY |website=YouTube}} |
| rowspan="4" |Critics' Choice Documentary Awards
| rowspan="4" |November 16, 2020 | colspan="2" |Best Documentary |{{nom}} |
| Best Narration
|Fox Rich |{{nom}} |
| Best Director
|{{nom}} |
| Most Compelling Living Subject of a Documentary
|Fox Rich |{{won}} |
| rowspan="2" |Gotham Independent Film Awards
| rowspan="2" | January 11, 2021 | colspan="2" |Best Documentary |{{won}} |
| colspan="2" |Audience Award
|{{nom}} |
| rowspan="3" |International Documentary Association
|rowspan="3" |January 16, 2021 |Best Director |{{won}} |
| colspan="2" |Best Feature
|{{nom}} |
| Best Cinematography
|Nisa East & Zac Manuel & Justin Zweifach |{{nom}} |
| rowspan="2" |Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
|rowspan="2" | December 20, 2020 | colspan="2" |Best Documentary Film |{{won}} |
| Best Editing
|Gabriel Rhodes |{{runner-up}} |
| National Society of Film Critics Awards
|January 9, 2021 | colspan="2" |Best Non-Fiction Film |{{won}} |
| New York Film Critics Circle Awards
|December 18, 2020 | colspan="2" |Best Non-Fiction Film |{{won}} |
| London Film Critics Circle Awards
|February 7, 2021 | colspan="2" |Documentary of the Year |{{nom}} |
| Black Film Critics Circle Awards
|January 21, 2020 | colspan="2" |Best Documentary |{{won}} |
| Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
|December 21, 2020 | colspan="2" |Best Documentary |{{nom}} |
| rowspan="2" |Sundance Film Festival
| rowspan="2" | February 1, 2020 | U.S. Documentary Competition – Directing |{{won}} |
| colspan="2" |Grand Jury Prize
|{{nom}} |
| rowspan="7" |Cinema Eye Honors
| rowspan="7" | March 9, 2021 |The Unforgettables |Fox Rich |{{won}} |
| colspan="2" |Audience Choice Prize
|{{Nominated}} |
| Outstanding Achievement in Direction
|{{Nominated}} |
| Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Score
|Edwin Montgomery & Jamieson Shaw |{{Nominated}} |
| Outstanding Achievement in a Debut Feature Film
|{{Won}} |
| colspan="2" |Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking
|{{Nominated}} |
| Outstanding Achievement in Editing
|Gabriel Rhodes |{{Won}} |
| Producers Guild of America Awards
| Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures | Time | {{Nominated}} |
| Peabody Awards
| |Documentary honoree |Time | {{Won}} | align="center"|{{Cite web |title=Time |url=https://peabodyawards.com/award-profile/time/ |access-date= |website=The Peabody Awards |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=June 21, 2021 |title=D.L. Hughley Presents Time with a Peabody Award |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUVGPX2qe7Y |website=YouTube}} |
References
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External links
- [https://www.amazon.com/Time-Fox-Rich/dp/B08J7DDGJY Time] at Amazon Prime Video
- {{IMDb title|11416746}}
- {{Rotten Tomatoes|time_2020}}
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sppM34yrQnE Official trailer]
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{{National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Non-Fiction Film}}
{{New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Non-Fiction Film}}
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