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Escapes
Directed by
Michael Almereyda
Not Rated
2017
89m
Documentary
6.8
90%
83%
5.8
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A documentary chronicling the life of actor and Blade Runner screenwriter Hampton Fancher.
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Escapes Ratings & Reviews
Michael J. Cinema
Michael J. Casey
To make it in Hollywood, you got to have duende, and Hampton Fancher has duende in spades.
Hyperallergic
Jon Hogan
Michael Almereyda's brilliant documentary Escapes presents a massive backlog of images from the career of actor and screenwriter Hampton Fancher, tinging it with Fancher's own keen self-awareness.
San Diego CityBeat
Glenn Heath Jr.
Escapes feels like a fitting and strange tribute to someone whose robust intimacy with life remains just as complicated today.
Film Threat
Hunter Lanier
Watching the film is often frustrating, but only because it surrounds its interesting subject with half-baked narrative devices, none of which accentuate his story, so much as they drown it out.
Laramie Movie Scope
Robert Roten
Hampton Fancher, best known for his Blade Runner screenplay, here is seen in a documentary about the fascinating journey of his life, from obscurity to fame, peppered with numerous film clips from his days as a TV and movie actor.
San Diego Reader
Scott Marks
Be it divine intervention or just pure dumb luck, Fancher never lost his foothold on the fringes of cinema. He lived his life as if it was a movie waiting to be made.
SF Weekly
Sherilyn Connelly
The resulting film is what The Kid Stays in the Picture might have been like if Robert Evans had lacked his driving ambition and peaked with Rosemary's Baby.
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Hartlaub
A half-dozen true Hollywood stories are presented in "Escapes," all offered in a matter-of-fact style that seems detached from typical celebrity brand-building and false humility.
Daily Film Fix
Jonathan W. Hickman
The hint of sadness that permeates Fancher's story-telling is clearly detectable, which makes us lean in. The question is, whether this is a life worth profiling?
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
"Escapes" is as unconventional as its subject, demonstrating the charming things that can happen when a life in no way ordinary gets documented by a filmmaker most unusual.
Blu-ray.com
Brian Orndorf
It's a fascinating journey, but one that demands real patience at times.
Washington City Paper
Tricia Olszewski
Director Michael Almereyda documents the eccentricities of a low-key Hollywood icon.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
"Escapes" is an eccentric portrait of a not especially eccentric - or even terribly interesting - subject ...
The Hollywood Reporter
John DeFore
[An] enjoyable doc, which touches on everything from flamenco to Blade Runner and leaves us wanting more.
IndieWire
David Ehrlich
Fancher is just one of those guys -- you know the kind. The word is usually "raconteur," but that doesn't quite seem to cover it, here. In fact, there isn't a word in the English language that does.
Village Voice
Serena Donadoni
[An] affectionate biographical scrapbook ...
Film Journal International
David Noh
A loose, informal portrait of a man still on the hustle.
The Film Stage
Jose Solís
Almereyda makes the most of this Dickensian hero's qualities by having him share some of his most unique anecdotes.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Mr. Fancher turns every walk down memory lane into a leisurely, surprise-filled stroll through a labyrinth, taking us right and then left and then down apparent dead ends before guiding us home.
Slant Magazine
Chuck Bowen
A preoccupation with the totemic materiality of cinema runs through Michael Almereyda's documentary.
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