The Untitled Amazing Johnathan Documentary

The Untitled Amazing Johnathan Documentary
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Runtime: 1 Hr. 30 Min. Rating: Release Year: 2019 Film Info: Screening format: DCP Director: Benjamin Berman Producer: Benjamin Berman, Miranda Bailey, Russell Wayne Groves, Amanda Marshall, Jacob Perlin Cinematographer: Dan Adlerstein, Benjamin Berman Editor: Scott Evans

Sponsored by: Ben Jackson

 

What happens when you try to make a documentary about an elusive subject whose entire life is based around trickery and showmanship? Can the subject be trusted? Is it even a documentary, or just a nonfiction account of a possibly fictional sequence of events? These questions (and many, many others) will hijack your brain after watching what is ostensibly about a magician’s comeback from terminal illness, but quickly morphs into a search for the nature of truth in documentary filmmaking.

 

"It's funny that Berman worried so much about there being too many docs being made about Szeles since he wound up basically making two in one. And both of them are exceptional."
- Nonfics
 
"One of the most fascinating portraits of the human condition and the power of manipulation."
- Cinemacy
 
"The Amazing Johnathan Documentary is ostensibly about a comic and is often very funny."
- Wall Street Journal

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