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Whirlybird

2020

Documentary, Self: Marika Gerrard, Katy Tur, Bob Tur

Documentary Flying high above Los Angeles in a whirling news helicopter, Marika Gerrard and Zoey Tur (known then as Bob) captured some of the city’s most epic breaking news stories. The two recount the salacious details of their career as a husband-and-wife journalist team doing whatever it took to catch an unfolding story. Their camera captured the extreme adrenaline of the culture of live news and, as a result, the strain it took on their ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Jude Dry IndieWire	"A complicated, engaging, one-of-a-kind, portrait of a deeply flawed human. It contains some beautiful footage shot from the skies of Los Angeles"	POS
United States	Daniel Fienberg The Hollywood Reporter	"The fascinating story behind some of L.A.'s most famous news scenes.(...) A complicated depiction of a marriage, (...) but not one you've ever seen recounted in exactly this way"	POS
United States	Matt Cipolla The Film Stage	"A documentary in turns exciting and upsetting, and as a comment on voyeurism, it doesn’t contradict itself.	POS
United States	Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"[It] never quite achieves its goal of tracking the development of an industry or one of the world’s most famous cities."	NEG
United States	Elizabeth Weitzman The Wrap	"There are quite a few stories swirling around 'Whirlybird', Matt Yoka’s promising debut documentary. Since most of them are memorable, the rough edges don’t matter much."	POS
United States	Amy Nicholson Variety	"The doc is a fascinating insight into how individual choices can shape the news"	POS
United Kingdom	Lucy Mangan The Guardian	"[Yoka's] ambition remains commendable and his containment of the huge mass of material means there is still plenty of meat on all the bones (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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