Early in the documentary “Rewind,” we learn that director Sasha Joseph Neulinger’s father, Henry Nevison, has an extensive collection of other people’s home movies – shelves stacked with film canisters that show strangers mugging for the camera, acting silly and doing their best to look very happy.
And then the film turns to Neulinger’s own home movies, and shows us the lies and the horror that can lie beneath those forced smiles and that awkward jollity.
The secrets that emerge, not so much in those home movies as in the recollections of the people in them, are the dark history of a family wracked, and wrecked, by generations of sexual abuse. Make no mistake, “Rewind” is hard to watch. It might also be essential.
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And then the film turns to Neulinger’s own home movies, and shows us the lies and the horror that can lie beneath those forced smiles and that awkward jollity.
The secrets that emerge, not so much in those home movies as in the recollections of the people in them, are the dark history of a family wracked, and wrecked, by generations of sexual abuse. Make no mistake, “Rewind” is hard to watch. It might also be essential.
Also Read: All the Hollywood Films Arriving on Demand Early Because of the Coronavirus
The film, which premiered at Tribeca last year and is screening on demand on Friday,...
- 5/7/2020
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
When films like Rewind are presented as exercises to reconstruct circumstances surrounding the sexual abuse its filmmaker endured, you can assume the journey will deal with unearthing previously unknown details about what happened through repressed memories. Despite the liberal use of home videos taken by director and subject Sasha Joseph Neulinger’s father to relive this harrowing past, however, his motivations are very different. Sasha actually remembers everything that occurred: the pain, sorrow, and suicidal thoughts. He can look at himself on-screen and know whether he was still a happy child pre-abuse or if his life had already been forever changed. His purpose of going back is conversely about documenting the process of confronting what happened. It’s about ensuring today’s victims receive the respect they deserve regardless of age.
While there aren’t really any secrets for Sasha to unearth for his personal edification, however, that doesn’t...
While there aren’t really any secrets for Sasha to unearth for his personal edification, however, that doesn’t...
- 5/6/2020
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
“This is the most documented family in the world,” Henry Nevison, director Sasha Joseph Neulinger’s father proudly says, while filming the loved ones that surround him in the documentary “Rewind.” According to Jacqui Neulinger, Sasha’s mother, her husband was prone to disappear behind the lens at rowdy household get-togethers. After all, a celebration was the perfect time to pull out his video camera.
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- 5/4/2019
- by Andrew Bundy
- The Playlist
Sasha Joseph Neulinger’s heroic and devastating autobiographical documentary opens with questions familiar to many people: Why are home movies always so haunting? What is it that tinges even the happiest footage with a touch of melancholy? What is it about them that makes someone’s own life feel like a ghost story?
In “Rewind,” much of which is comprised of the fuzzy tape that Neulinger’s father compulsively shot on his camcorder throughout the ’90s, all of the worst suspicions that might arise from these videos turn out to be well-founded and worse. But the footage also speaks to a broader disquiet that rings true for those of us who haven’t been forced to survive any version of Neulinger’s awful misfortunes.
“Rewind,” as indelibly as any film ever made, illustrates how the very process of investigating your own past can be a trauma unto itself. And it...
In “Rewind,” much of which is comprised of the fuzzy tape that Neulinger’s father compulsively shot on his camcorder throughout the ’90s, all of the worst suspicions that might arise from these videos turn out to be well-founded and worse. But the footage also speaks to a broader disquiet that rings true for those of us who haven’t been forced to survive any version of Neulinger’s awful misfortunes.
“Rewind,” as indelibly as any film ever made, illustrates how the very process of investigating your own past can be a trauma unto itself. And it...
- 5/1/2019
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Horror author Stephen King is a household name these days – but once upon a time the master of the macabre was just another writer who wasn’t regularly on television and giving countless interviews. The following video, which we’re sharing today in celebration of this week’s release of King’s latest novel Mr. Mercedes, is actually the author’s first television interview. Yes, before King was hawking American Express cards, he sat down for this nearly 30-minute chat with Henry Nevison for a local show highlighting the work of distinguished graduates of the University of Maine. The clip, which finds a young King waxing poetic about his work, his fears and the adaptations of his books for the screen (and looking an awful lot like his son Joe Hill...
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- 6/5/2014
- by Mike Bracken
- Movies.com
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