How do you put a life into 500 words? Ask the staff obituary writers at the New York Times. OBIT is a first-ever glimpse into the daily rituals, joys and existential angst of the Times obit writers, as they chronicle life after death on the front lines of history.... (Full plot summary below)
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How do you put a life into 500 words? Ask the staff obituary writers at the New York Times. OBIT is a first-ever glimpse into the daily rituals, joys and existential angst of the Times obit writers, as they chronicle life after death on the front lines of history.
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| ReviewExpress.comJean LowerisonIt's almost enough to inspire the reader to go out and do something important |
| Willamette WeekNathan CarsonThe writers' stories are juxtaposed snugly beside the details of their subjects to create an exceptionally tight, often hilarious film. |
| Boston GlobeTy BurrVanessa Gould’s charming and soulful documentary Obit should convince the doubters and cheer those who already know. As someone who takes great pleasure in both reading and writing valedictions to the recently deceased, I can personally attest that the movie’s dead on. |
| SF WeeklySherilyn ConnellyObit's stealth hero is Jeff Roth, keeper of the Times' archive of clippings and photographs. It's appropriately called "the morgue," and a movie consisting only of Roth going through the drawers would be no less fascinating. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatA quirky and engaging documentary about the obit beat of The New York Times. |
| Chicago ReaderJ. R. JonesGould secures plenty of nuts-and-bolts detail about the reporting and writing process, which can range from novelistic use of detail to the prosaic but no less critical matter of confirming the death itself. |
| National PostChris KnightThis is one of the more unusual tales in this fascinating story of life (and death) in the obit department of the New York Times. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperYou might think a documentary about the obituary writers at the New York Times would be a depressing, sobering, scholarly work — but it’s anything but. |
| Washington PostJane HorwitzIt is fascinating to watch the writers in “Obit” strive to do right by their subjects, warts and all. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Julia CooperGould’s excellent documentary captures this elasticity, stretching the spectator to consider why bearing witness to a life collectively is so very worth the trouble. |
