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Kate Plays Christine is a 2016 American documentary film written and directed by Robert Greene. It follows actress Kate Lyn Sheil's preparation for the role of Christine Chubbuck, a newscaster who committed suicide on live television in 1974, for a fictitious film.
Aug 24, 2016 · “Kate Plays Christine,” about an actress preparing to play a newscaster who committed suicide in 1974, is a rare and welcome exception. But for all of its practical details about what the process of acting is actually about, it’s more than a mere record of things done and said.
Aug 17, 2016 · Robert Greene’s Kate Plays Christine, which nabbed this year’s Sundance Film Festival US Documentary Special Jury Award for Writing, continues the Actress (2014) director’s exploration of female thespians and their process.
Kate Plays Christine: Directed by Robert Greene. With Kate Lyn Sheil, Stephanie Coatney, Michael Ray Davis, Zachary Gossett. Actress Kate Lyn Sheil prepares to portray the role of Christine Chubbuck, a real-life news reporter who took her own life on local Florida television in 1974.
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- Documentary, Biography, Drama
- Robert Greene
- 2016-10-14
Kate Plays Christine blurs genres -- and the line between fact and reality -- with a cleverly provocative docudrama look at newscaster Christine Chubbuck's life and death. Read Critics...
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- Robert Greene
Nonfiction-cinema champion Robert Greene peels the documentary onion in this redolent portrait of a portrait of Christine Chubbuck and her 1974 television suicide, says Jordan Cronk.
Oct 10, 2016 · A film within a film, as an actor prepares to play suicidal news anchor Christine Chubbuck. Monday 10 October 2016. Written by Joshua Rothkopf. Time Out says. Robert Greene’s documentary...
