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Keep Your Sunny Side Up: The Ballad of Addie and Moze

2024 · 25 min

A gentle, thoughtful video essay that walks you through a classic film's craft, feeling like a warm lecture from someone who loves it.

Genres
Documentary
Overview
The following video essay, written and narrated for the Criterion Collection by Peter Bogdanovich biographer Peter Tonguette, considers Moze and Addie’s father-daughter-like relationship, as well as the formal techniques and visual styles informed by it, in PAPER MOON.
How it feels
Warm, earnest and melancholic. Measured and needs your attention.
About
Parenthood, family, art, memory
Content
No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
Note
Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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How it feels

Written by AI. It can be wrong.

Full breakdown
Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
Places
None
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour3
Realism8
Romance1
Tension2
Darkness3
Complexity6
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
documentary
Written by
Peter Tonguette
Starring
Peter Bogdanovich, Jerry Lewis, Ryan O'Neal, Tatum O'Neal, Peter Tonguette
Runtime
25 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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