This is a documentary that will hit many different people in many different ways depending on their past and present life experiences. Without getting too personal, in some ways I am living out a bit of what is happening in this movie and found parallels that are eerily accurate, including a need to help figure out the 온라인카지노추천 that happened just a few hours earlier today. As a result, this was a rather extraordinary experience for me. I'll be honest - when I first read the description of this movie, it sounded a bit off kilter, and I think it could have gone terribly wrong in numerous ways. But director/daughter Johnson is a smart cookie and finds a beautiful balance between the pain and the humor. While I expected to be moved - and I most certainly was - I was surprised by how often I smiled and laughed throughout. And it helps that Dick Johnson is just the loveliest man ever, a kind and gentle soul whose smile lights up a room and whose spirit is inspiring to us half his age. There are moments here I will truly never forget, and I'm not being hyperbolic. I think this will touch anyone who has gone through or is going through the experience of having an elderly parent or parents. Alternately hilarious and heartbreaking, I'll be thinking of Dick Johnson for a long time to come.

Other than the staged death scenes (which were fun), the film is simply boring and unentertaining. This would have worked much better as a short film.

Darkly comedic and emotionally tear-jerking at the same time, cinematographer-turned-director Kirsten Johnson creates a hilarious and welcoming atmosphere in Dick Johnson that documentarians will do well to follow in the future.

It is really a beautiful documentary that hits a chord in terms of the relationship we have with the inexorable aging and an intimate look at Alzheimer's. Really a film that tells in a humorous way the inevitable farewell of our parents

This is a morbid yet quite profound documentary, for those not ready to face or accept death, it can be quite daunting and disquieting, however Dick and Kirsten through their feeling of acceptance, were able to somehow make the whole idea of death comforting and tender. This documentary shows how significant the present is, the little moments matter and they stay with us forever. It can be quite a hard topic to watch, but the producer was able to make it bearable with little splashes of humour, love, acceptance, friendship and peace.

Very creative project, mostly well done though I thought some of the skits were over-played. Perhaps for me the topic was too close to my path and the emotional memories impacted me too much to appreciate the actual movie.

Don't see what the fuss was about. I found the film self-indulgent and cringeworthy at times.

What a sweet, sweet, caring and loving man Mr. Johnson is. This documentary made me smile, laugh, cry and sentimental all at once, if that's possible.

One of the most unique documentaries I've seen lately. Dick Johnson Is Dead portrays a father and daughter's way of coping with oncoming death with strong themes on death and people's ways of coping with it. It's a very funny and very touching documentary that moved me to the point of tears. Possibly my favorite documentary of 2020 and one of my favorites in recent memory.

I must be missing something here, because I just don't get the hype behind director Kirsten Johnson's documentary about the last years of the life of her father, Dick, an elderly Seattle psychiatrist besieged by the onset of dementia. Its eclectic mix of content doesn't gel well, despite some of the material being exceedingly well done. It comes across mostly as an often-endearing, loving tribute, though it's frequently weighed down by far too much extraneous, incidental and, at times, repetitive material. Then there are the picture's fictional segments in which the director presents comically gruesome stagings of her father's demise (a la the macabre suicide sequences from Hal Ashby's "Harold and Maude" (1971)) as a means of coping with Dick's impending passage (most of which aren't especially inventive or funny). Taken together, this amalgamation of material just doesn't mesh and leaves viewers with a confusing portrait of what the filmmaker was attempting to accomplish. Perhaps recutting the footage would have helped, but, as it stands now, this one doesn't come through as it should.

A loving tribute that is as much about capturing memories as its is about creating them. Imaginative in its storytelling.

"There's those times when you need to cry. I'm talkin' about a real cry. I'm talkin' about you need to open up your soul and have a weep-a-thon." Thank you, Dane Cook-this is true and if you ever need an impetus for such a moment Kirsten Johnson's documentary about her 86 year-old father, Dick Johnson is Dead, is more than happy to provide as much. Made in order to relieve if not necessarily alleviate Dick's fear of death and his daughter's fear of losing him, Dick Johnson is Dead may very well be the best, most moving film I see all year. Seriously though, I probably cried every three minutes.

Smart, creative and brave in it's very own, very personal way.

RATING: A- Director: Kirsten Johnson Dick Johnson is Dead is a very special documentary. The documentary mixes humour with deeply emotional scenes and it always succeeds in doing so. This documentary gets even more emotional when you see that the Filmmaker, Kirsten Johnson, is actually the daughter of the film's subject, Dick Johnson. I'm happy that I made this my first real documentary.

Kristen Johnson said this was a comedy and I didn't see it like that. I also didn't see any cohesive story. Also watching Michael Moore doing a Q&A with her and he's just lobbing her questions and complements because they work together. I don't see the feeling in this doc. I didn't feel anything. It's a long interpretive performance.

This didn't really do it for me. Often it felt too intimate, too personal for someone else's very real family for me. I can see the idea of cinema as a way of making someone 'eternal' or permanent, in a sense; esp. to capture the father when he still has most of his faculties about him. The director, Kirsten Johnson, a long-time documentarian, somehow did not film her mother when she was younger and full of life. The early bits with the 'deaths' of Dr. Johnson are a lot of fun, and well-executed. Wish there had been more of that. Dick Johnson, himself, is a joy. Seems like he would've been a great dad. I've seen this called 'solipsistic', but that's not accurate, really. It was a mix of loved family members, the value of film in our lives, personal sorrows, and our mortality. More clips of ol' dad taking the dirt nap and I'd give this a better review. 2.8 stars

When delivered with the news of her father's failing health due to Alzheimer's (and having already lost her mother to the disease), director Kirsten Johnson comes up with a great way of preparing her dad for the end of his life. She decides to closely monitor and film him but also adds a touch of humour to the proceedings but inventing lots of different ways for him to die and filming the results. On the surface this may sound a tad morbid but it's far from it. It's a beautiful and touching celebration of a man who clearly means so much to so many and Dick Johnson himself is such an affable and pure-hearted presence that it's a joy to see him having fun and being part of the whole experience. A lovely documentary that I'm sure many people wished they could achieve in both remembering and saying goodbye to a loved one.

Such a unique and incredible documentary about life and death. Won a Special Jury Award at Sundance. Worth the watch! Streaming on Netflix.

if you are alive, absolute must see!

Dick Johnson is Dead is a documentary but it's a hard movie to describe because, at its core, it's the use of art to memorialize a man, to process grief on personal terms, and as a love letter from a daughter to a father. Kirsten Johnston (Cameraperson) records her life caring for her ailing 85-year-old father. Dick is a former therapist, a widower, and starting to go through the early stages of Alzheimer's and coming to terms with his new limitations. Kirsten is a camera operator who has worked on documentaries for over thirty years, so she turns the lens on her father and the two of them enact a series of wacky fake deaths, starring Dick himself (until the stuntmen take over), as father and daughter work to make a movie celebrating life while they still can together. First things first, Dick Johnson is just the sweetest man. Spending time with him is a treat and watching him smile with like his whole face just made me feel happy. I enjoyed learning just what a good person he was and what he's meant to his friends, family, and colleagues, but he's just so pleasant and nice and compassionate that you feel the love his daughter intends you to understand. That's the overwhelming feeling from this quirky documentary. Dick has such love for his daughter and is willing to humor her silly morbid scenarios confronting his death. Kirsten has loved this man for so long and already lost one parent to Alzheimer's and now must go through it again. She's using the medium she feels most capable and comfortable with, photography and moviemaking, to celebrate her father and his unheralded life of being a good man coming to an end. My heart ached for him when he breaks into tears articulating what relinquishing his ability to drive means for him and his sense of independence, looking ahead. Kirsten highlights some of the more unusual details about her father for this movie-within-a-movie, creating sequences that shed light on his faith as a Seventh Day Adventist and his insecurity over how his feet appear. It's insightful aspects that better round out this man, like his ability to start conversations with strangers, or his knack of being able to fall asleep anywhere as long as he can prop his feet up. For Kirsten, recording these moments while her father is still lucid is a matter of documenting him while he can still recognize himself. She laments the minuscule amount of footage she has of her mother before her death. She doesn't want to make the same mistake with her father, so why not also make him a movie star if she can? Watching Dick Johnson is Dead is to feel overcome with her adoration for this remarkably ordinary and good man. The movie also serves as a strange way to take control over something inevitable yet unknowable. Dick Johnson is going to die, as we all will, but he will very likely die before his physical body expires. His mind will deteriorate, and he'll stop being Dick Johnson. I wondered early why the movie kept resorting to slapstick with the many possible deaths of Dick onscreen. It's more than a bit morbid for a daughter to direct her own father dying again and again in a variety of wild and bloody and violent accidents. I can understand many viewers being put off by this, worrying that Dick is being exploited, and at least finding it all to be in bad taste. I tried to assess why this element was so essential to the production. I suppose it functions as a gimmick that can help it get more attention and a larger audience considering the film lacks a hard-charging topic, unique insider access, or a headline-grabbing name or artistic approach. However, as I continued with the movie, I concluded that Kirsten Johnson is inflicting all manner of over-the-top goofy deaths and violent mayhem upon her beloved father as a means of processing her looming grief. She's trying to reclaim a sense of control and offering that same ownership to her father. They aren't running from his death but are embracing it, laughing at it, and doing it their way. The documentary is an artifact of love and a filmmaker using art to comprehend her grief. The Seventh Day Adventist adherence presents an interesting dynamic to explore when discussing a spiritual afterlife. This smaller Christian denomination believes that the worthy will return to heaven but only after Jesus returns to Earth to kick-start the whole Armageddon deal. Until that fateful day, the dead will lay in their graves and wait for however long it takes. I had never heard about this before. Many religions are about delayed gratification, the reward coming upon the conclusion of Earthly existence, and these people believe the wait extends even beyond death. A lifetime and then some of waiting would shape very patient people like Dick. The great fear of an Adventist, we're told, is to be one of the ones left behind, and it's easy to see the parallels with losing one's sense of identity through the creeping fog of Alzheimer's. Apparently, strict Adventists also don't approve of dancing. In a fantasy sequence engineered by Kirsten, Dick gets to dance in heaven with his wife again and knowing all these details gives the moment, which can be immediately silly on a surface-level, its own sense of poignancy and reverence. The only thing that holds the movie back is that late into its 90 minutes I feel like it gets too manipulative and meta for its own good. There's an emotional climax and then the movie reveals some key details that can make you feel a little bamboozled. It's not enough to sacrifice all the emotional investment and artistic gains that came before but it's just a few steps too far. Don't get me wrong, I'm genuinely happy with the overall ending, but I didn't care for being jerked around. Dick Johnson is Dead is a peculiar, funny, heartwarming, and experimental documentary. It reminded me in some ways of 2012's The Act of Killing where filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer finds old men who participated in Indonesian genocide in the 1960s to re-enact their crimes but playing their victims and through the surreal prism of a film production. Except this movie is far more personal and far more affirming; it's very much a love letter to a wonderful man. You feel the intimacy of this family relationship and I felt privileged just to be let in and share these moments, the ordinary ones, the reflective ones, the emotional ones, the silly ones. This is an affecting documentary using its very form and function to use art to make sense of pain. It's currently available on Netflix streaming and I would highly encourage you to relax, kick your feet up like Dick, and watch one of the best and strangest movies of 2020. Nate's Grade: A-