The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography
The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography

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Portrait photographer Elsa Dorfman found her medium in 1980: the larger-than-life Polaroid Land 20x24 camera. For the next thirty-five years she captured the "surfaces" of those who visited her Cambridge, Massachusetts studio: families, Beat poets, rock stars, and Harvard notables. As pictures begin to fade and her retirement looms, Dorfman gives Errol Morris an inside tour of her backyard archive.... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography:

Elsa Dorfman
Errol Morris

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Portrait photographer Elsa Dorfman found her medium in 1980: the larger-than-life Polaroid Land 20x24 camera. For the next thirty-five years she captured the "surfaces" of those who visited her Cambridge, Massachusetts studio: families, Beat poets, rock stars, and Harvard notables. As pictures begin to fade and her retirement looms, Dorfman gives Errol Morris an inside tour of her backyard archive.

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Combustible Celluloid - 10/10 by Jeffrey M. AndersonIt manages to feel quietly moving and quietly profound in unexpected ways, and I think it is Morris's best film in a long time.
Blu-ray.com - 9/10 by Brian OrndorfPerhaps the subject isn't for every taste, but Morris appears to understand inherent exclusivity, keeping "The B-Side" biographical but also visual, allowing time for the audience to grasp the specificity and serenity of Dorfman's work.
NPR - 9/10 by Ella TaylorClocking in at a trim 76 minutes, The B-side is as warmly affectionate as its subject, a close friend and neighbor of the director.
Newcity - 9/10 by Ray PrideCompact and so vast, so bittersweet and so kind and giving, a brilliantly casual portrait of Morris' cheery friend and Cambridge neighbor. [A] deceptively simple gem.
Vogue - 9/10 by Chloe SchamaThe film is tinged with a sense of fragility -- the luckiness of the shot, the delicate nature of the prints, the high probability that someone is blinking, and the very nature of photography itself.
Los Angeles Times - 9/10 by Robert AbeleThis is the rare Morris movie that feels led by the personality of its star figure, in this case Dorfman’s wry positivity and love of what she does, rather than his need to probe.
Ozus' World Movie Reviews - 9/10 by Dennis SchwartzA warm-hearted documentary about a down-to-earth photographer who used Polaroids to shoot her portraits.
Shockya.com - 9/10 by Harvey S. KartenThe B-Side is on the dull side given that it's largely a one-hander but its central character does give the audience insight into how a photographer can capture a person's soul.
Washington City Paper - 8/10 by Alan ZilbermanDirected by famed documentarian Errol Morris, The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography is a perfect match of filmmaker and subject.
New Yorker - 8/10 by Richard BrodyThe depth of her art reflects a life richly lived, as does the wisdom of her epigrammatic musings.

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