| Original Score: A- | Sep 7, 2011

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 19, 2005

A moving portrait of an astounding life.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 8, 2003

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jun 19, 2003

... takes you to where Tobias Schneebaum has been and in an engrossing manner lets you see why he went there.

| Original Score: A | Dec 18, 2002

Intriguing if somewhat leisurely documentary on anthropologist/artist Tobias Schneebaum.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 8, 2002

The Shapiros ... ultimately reveal a frail but mentally robust old man whose gnawing hunger for knowledge led him to shun a safe, comfortable career in art for a series of radically transformative experiences at the world's edges.

| Oct 28, 2002

An engaging testimony to the courage of one man's quest into the unknown.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 5, 2002

Along the way, Schneebaum reverts from a lonely old man singing for his supper in the salons of New York to the adventurer he once was and apparently will always be. And this metamorphosis is the film's real discovery.

Full Review | Nov 16, 2001

A fascinating if somewhat unfocused documentary.

Full Review | Oct 11, 2001

Schneebaum, a dull and helpless-looking nonentity at first glance, proves to be an amazingly courageous, inquisitive, remarkable man.

Full Review | Aug 10, 2001

What's really intriguing is the journey into a man's heart and intellect.

Full Review | Aug 3, 2001

May be a film of missed opportunities and unanswered questions, but it has an unsinkable man at its center who is never less than transfixing.

| Jul 2, 2001

The film mostly succeeds, and that's thanks to Schneebaum himself, who has an extraordinary screen presence.

Full Review | Jun 4, 2001

a spiritually uplifting outlook on life

| Original Score: A | May 29, 2001

Even is you don't like documentary films, this is one worth seeing.

| May 29, 2001

There's no denying the warmth of Schneebaum's encounters, or his engaging nature. Or the fact that you've never seen a documentary quite like this one, and aren't likely to again.

Full Review | May 25, 2001

The Shapiros labor under the delusion that an interesting subject automatically makes an interesting movie; their film is discursive and careless.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 23, 2001

It's a frustrating film, asking more questions than it answers...it was very long and very unsatisfying.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5 | May 22, 2001