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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
THE FAMILY ALBUM
  • SYNOPSIS
  • AWARDS & FESTIVALS
  • JOURNAL Excerpts
  • HISTORICAL NOTES
  • ADVENTURES IN THE LOST and FOUND
  • Selected Reviews
  • PRESS QUOTES
  • E.G. Marshall Intro
  • PROGRAM NOTES
  • credits
  • VIEW CLIPS
  • PHOTOS

produced, Directed and Edited
by Alan Berliner
60 minutes / 1986

"In the (Edinburgh) Film Festival the most intriguing movie I saw was "The Family Album" by Alan Berliner.... a great humanistic statement made out of found sources.
ROGER EBERT



"Alan Berliner built this touching, insightful piece out of home movies from about 60 different families.... 
The assembly is brilliant.... his extraordinary talent sweeps us right along."
THE DENVER POST



"Most if not all of the adults in the film are surely dead now, forgotten, often almost unknown, yet visible in a flickering facsimile of life, waving and speaking to us from beyond this life in a kind of anonymous immortality"
THE OREGONIAN



"Resembles a kind of Man With A Movie Camera (1928, by Dziga Vertov) goes to the American nuclear family."
PATRICIA ZIMMERMANN/AFTERIMAGE