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FILMS
  • SHORT FILMS
  • EARLY FILMS
  • FIRST COUSIN ONCE REMOVED
  • WIDE AWAKE
  • THE SWEETEST SOUND
  • NOBODY'S BUSINESS
  • INTIMATE STRANGER
  • THE FAMILY ALBUM
WIDE AWAKE
  • SYNOPSIS
  • Director’s Statement
  • FESTIVALS & sCREENINGS
  • CREDITS
  • Selected ReviEws
  • PRESS QUOTES
  • VIEW CliPS
  • NY SUN REVieW
  • SLATE ReVIEW
  • PHOTOS


Written, produced, diReCTED and edited 
By Alan Berliner
79 minutes
2006

 

 

 

 

 

Wide Awake

James Greenberg

Hollywood Reporter

January 23, 2006

 

 

Wide Awake

John Anderson

Variety

January 24, 2006

 

 

To Sleep or Not to Sleep

Scott Foundas

LA Weekly

January 25, 2006

 

 

Say What You Want, This Film Is No Sleeper

Jan Stuart

Newsday

January 25, 2006

 

 

I'll Sleep When I Figure Out Why I Can't

Anne S. Lewis

The Austin Chronicle

March, 10, 2006

 

 

Eyes Wide Open

Alan Berliner Will Sleep When He's Done

Interview with Natalija Vekic

Release Print (Film Arts Foundation)

May/June 2006

 

 

Two Sleepy People

Insomnia in the Films of Alan Berliner and Annette Mangaard

Shlomo Schwartzberg

Point of View

Summer 2006

 

 

Young and Restless

Goel Pinto

Haaretz

July 10, 2006

 

 

Waking up to Alan Berliner

Hannah Brown

Jerusalem Post

July 16, 2006

 

 

Moment

Jewish Politics, Culture & Religion for the 21st Century

Phillip Lopate

August 2006

 

 

CHASING TIME

realscreen

 Alan Berliner

September 2006

 

 

Sleep Filming

Natasha Li Pickowicz

Ithaca Times

November 15, 2006

 

 

A Filmmaker Whose Camera Gets No Shut-Eye

Desson Thomson

Wsahington Post

December 9, 2006

 

 

Sleepworking: Insomnia as Inspiration

for Alan Berliner's 'Wide Awake.'

Kathy A. McDonald

Documentary Magazine

March/April 2007

 

 

WIDE AWAKE

Juan Munoz-Tebar

blogsandocs

April 2007

 

 

Can't Sleep?

Watch Alan Berliner's Insomnia Documentary

Troy Patterson

Slate

May 22, 2007

 

 

My Kingdom For Some Shut-Eye

Brendan Bernhard

The New York Sun

May 22, 2007

 

 

Inspired At Night

USA Today (Weekend)

June 18-21, 2007

 

 

Who the Hell is Alan Berliner?

Chizfilm Movie Reviews

Jonathan Chisdes

November 15, 2007