Blu-ray, DVD Release: Obit.

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Laurence
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Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Aug. 1, 2017
Price: DVD $27.34, Blu-ray $34.95
Studio: Kino Lorber

It’s a shame no one wants to talk to them at parties, because obituary writers are a surprisingly funny bunch. Ten hours before newspapers hit neighborhood doorsteps—and these days, ten minutes before news hits the web—an obit writer is racing against deadline to sum up a long and newsworthy life in under 1000 words. The details of these lives are then deposited into the cultural memory amid the daily beat of war, politics, and football scores.

The 2017 film Obit., directed by Vanessa Gould, is the first documentary to explore the world of these writers and their subjects, focusing on the legendary team at The New York Times (including Bruce Weber, Margalit Fox and William Grimes) who approach their daily work with journalistic rigor and narrative flair. Going beyond the byline and into the minds of those chronicling life after death on the freshly inked front lines of history, the film invites some of the most essential questions we ask ourselves about life, memory, and the inevitable passage of time. What do we choose to remember? What never dies?

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About Laurence

Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.