Documentary

Arthur Miller: Writer.  A film by Rebecca Miller
© Inge Morath/Magnum Photos.  USA. Roxbury, Connecticut. 1995. Rebecca and Arthur Miller.

Rebecca Miller’s film is a portrait of her father, his times and insights, built around impromptu interviews shot over many years in the family home. This celebration of the great American playwright is quite different from what the public has ever seen. It is a close consideration of a singular life shadowed by the tragedies of the Red Scare and the death of Marilyn Monroe; a bracing look at success and failure in the public eye; an honest accounting of human frailty; a tribute to one artist by another. Arthur Miller: Writer invites you to see how one of America’s sharpest social commentators formed his ideologies, how his life reflected his work, and, even in some small part, shaped the culture of our country in the twentieth century. An HBO Documentary Films release. (2017)

Watch the trailer and film:  HBO or Amazon. Watch a clip at IndieWire.

Interviews:  Film at Lincoln Center Q & A; Build Series:  Rebecca Miller & Damon Cardasis discuss Arthur Miller: Writer; NPR:  “Documenting the Offstage Life of Playwright Arthur Miller (AKA Dad).”