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I'm Still Here


The critical consensus

As director Casey Affleck does a brilliantly invisible job.

****(*)Nigel Andrews, Financial Times, 15/09/2010

Who cares, finally, whether this is a documentary or not? I'm Still Here paints a convincing portrait of a miserable, frustrated actor who has lived so long in the goldfish bowl that he can no longer conceive of a life beyond acting.

***(*)(*)Xan Brooks, The Guardian, 06/09/2010

Good film; dodgy career move.

****(*)Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 16/09/2010

The ridicule that is heaped on him arguably reveals just as much about celebrity-obsessed popular culture as it does about Phoenix himself.

***(*)(*)Geoffrey Macnab, The Independent, 07/09/2010

It's one thing to pull off a hoax; it's quite another to transform the fakery into authentic entertainment.

**(*)(*)(*)Anthony Quinn, The Independent, 17/09/2010

Maybe none of it is real, while all of it is true.

****(*)Marc Lee, The Telegraph, 16/09/2010

This is a film to be endured rather than enjoyed.

**(*)(*)(*)Daily Record, 17/09/2010

This comic portrait of Phoenix’s lost year ironically manages to raise some serious questions about fame and the media obsession with celebrity.

****(*)Kaleem Aftab, The List, 22/09/2010

Affleck's meta-satire riffs amusingly on celebrity culture without hitting too many faux-doc highs.

***(*)(*)Damon Wise, Empire Online

Intriguing but ultimately self-indulgent.

**(*)(*)(*)Alison Rowat, The Herald, 7/10/2010


Features about I'm Still Here

Joaquin Phoenix v the celebrity mags

Hadley Freeman, The Guardian, 16/09/2010

How we finally got to the truth about Joaquin Phoenix's I'm Still Here

Damon Wise, The Guardian, 18/09/2010

Joaquin Phoenix 'documentary' I'm Still Here is a fake, Casey Affleck admits

Ben Child, The Guardian, 17/09/2010

The weird world of Joaquin Phoenix

David Usborne, The Independent, 18/09/2010

Joaquin Phoenix documentary a fake

STV, 17/09/2010

Interview: Casey Affleck

Michael Cieply, The Scotsman, 19/09/2010

Joaquin Phoenix tells Letterman: I hope spoof didn't offend you

Peter Walker, The Guardian, 23/09/2010

The truth about my Joaquin Phoenix 'hoax'

Marc Lee, The Telegraph, 21/09/2010

Where and when?

General release. Check local listings for show times.

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