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Leaving October 1
Directed by Robert Greene | 112 mins | 2016
Greene’s rug-pulling docufiction—luminously shot by DP Sean Price Williams—follows actress Kate Lyn Sheil through her increasingly obsessive and mentally deleterious preparations to take on the role of Christine Chubbuck, a Florida newscaster whose live on-air suicide in 1974 has been cited as an inspiration for the film Network.
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