FLAMES

August 23, 2018

"The sometimes-excruciating, maybe-documentary Flames"

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By K. Austin Collins

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February 15, 2018

"Watching Flames feels like something below your consciousness is being struck, where a trove filled with repressed memories is suddenly re-discovered"

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By Kristen Chochrane

February 14, 2018

"A molotov cocktail of a movie"

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By David Ehrlich

February 13, 2018

"A tough, fraught, and fascinating film"

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By  Jason Bailey

February 09, 2018

"Ambitious and graphic"

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By  Peter Keough

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December 02, 2017

"Making us ask ourselves essential questions about the nature of love and what we think is true."

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By Gianluca Tana

Translation by Melissa Borgnino

November 11, 2017

Fun interview with the Italian media.

December 01, 2017

"They are real, they suffer and they enjoy, they spit, they scratch, they piss, they wash in a perennial ambivalence of awareness"

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By Fabiana Sargentini

November 29, 2017

By Pietro Bianchi

October 26, 2017

"Zefrey Throwell and Josephine Decker’s Flames earned the best documentary feature award"

August 03, 2017

A fun video interview at Traverse City Film Fest where Zefrey had to follow Gilbert Gottfried. Oh the horror of the follow up act! Thanks to the Michigan Film and Digital Media Office and to TCFF.

May 29, 2017

"Artfully created doc-fiction hybrids that leave audiences unsure about what’s real and what’s not"

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How Do You Know Whether Your Film is Porn or Art?

By Liz Nord

May 11, 2017

"A funny and bracing documentary, sure to garner strong reactions from anyone who watches it.​"

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The Hottest of Hot Docs 2017

By Corey Atad

May 11, 2017

Great interview with Josephine and Zefrey by the hilarious Adam Schartoff of Filmwax Radio .

May 11, 2017

"The most real thing you’ll ever see"

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The Best Films We Saw At Tribeca 2017

By Andrew Karpan

May 09, 2017

"Flames was the festival’s boundary pusher with its engrossing portrait of a couple performing its own break-up"

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Hot Docs 2017: Festival Wrap-Up and Picks for 'Best of the Fest'

May 07, 2017

"Wildly creative and frustratingly annoying"

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Festival Feature: The Films of the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival

By Patrick McDonald

May 05, 2017

Director Josephine Decker Talks Watching Her Life in ‘Flames’

By Kristen Tauer

May 04, 2017

"Flames illustrates how art and passion both blind us to the very things before our eyes. If the action of Flames consistently resembles drama, there’s still a fascinating element of documentary within the film’s hybridity as it captures the dissolution of a relationship and the ephemeral nature of romance."

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Review: Flames

By Patrick Mullen

May 03, 2017

"With high potential to ruffle with its solipsism, Flames turns out to be cathartic and timely piece of performance art that might be the most representative of our society. "

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In Defense of Tribeca: Closing Notes from the 2017 Film Festival

By Elissa Suh

May 02, 2017

‘Flames’ Filmmakers on Emotional Exploitation, Nudity, and the Complexity of Collaboration

By Diana Drumm

May 02, 2017

Flames: You Can't Do Love Wrong

By Yolanda McLellan

May 02, 2017

Good press summary

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Love and its aftermath

By David Hudson

May 02, 2017

"I can’t stop thinking about this film."

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Flames

By Sheila O'Malley

May 01, 2017

"We’ve all been there, which is part of what makes this seemingly insular New York artist story so universal, and so affecting."

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The Best and Worst Movies of the Tribeca Film Festival

By Jason Bailey
 

May 01, 2017

"The film is here to rip away the delusions we all have about love and romantic tales, but also leaves behind a different kind of understanding which is, ultimately, very liberating."

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Zefrey Throwell and Josephine Decker's Flames is a Doc/Narrative hybrid depicting a couple "arting" themselves to death.

By Miguel Cima

April 30, 2017

"We’ve all had our Josephines, all had our Zefreys."

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FLAMES plays Hot Docs 2017

By Ryan McNeil

April 27, 2017

Super Singers, Feminist Debates & Publicity Pranks! Get the Tribeca Film Festival 2017 Highlights

April 27, 2017

"Flames is refreshingly, brutally and achingly real."

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REVIEW: “Flames” follows passionate couple through ups and downs of relationship

By Felipe Belfort Marquez, Johnathan D. Kindall and Jon Ollom

April 27, 2017

"It makes falling out of love seem like an enviable, knowledge-gaining - even beautiful - endeavor to go through."

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Tribeca: 'Flames' Invites You Into Real-Life Lovers’ Most Intimate Moments

By Sam Weisberg

April 26, 2017

"A singular project that pushes the boundaries of cinema "

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Tribeca review: Flames documentary is self-indulgent but ultimately fascinating

By  Greg Ptacek

April 25, 2017

"Flames is an entirely fascinating project"

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Five Questions for Flames DP Ashley Connor

By Scott Macaulay 

April 25, 2017

"Sparkling with mischievous wit and dazzling imagery"

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Ashley Connor, Josephine Decker & Zefrey Throwell on Stoking “Flames”​

By Stephen Saito

April 24, 2017

"Without a doubt unlike any other film released"

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Josephine Decker & Zefrey Throwell’s ‘Flames’ Captures The Burning Lights & Charred Embers Of Love

By Ally Johnson

April 23, 2017

"One of those documentaries that’s intended to eat itself alive"

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"Flames" review

By Chuck Bowen

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April 21, 2017

"A film that is unlike any other"

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"Flames" Directors Josephine Decker & Zefrey Throwell On Confronting The Extremes Of Intimacy

By Matt Grobar. 

April 21, 2017

Some fun on the red carpet premiere of Flames!

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Stunt at Tribeca Film Festival leaves photographers fuming

By Lindsey Kupfer

April 21, 2017

"A fascinatingly meta twist"

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In Flames, a Failed Couple Airs ‘The Dirtiest of Dirty Laundry’ 

By Daniel Maurer

April 21, 2017

"Extremely raw, sexually and emotionally intimate"

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Behind the Screens: Top 10 Films to Watch at Tribeca Film Festival This Year

By Jake Brandman

April 23, 2017

Check Out Our List of Tribeca Films We Need to Watch

April 21, 2017

"Trailer for Flames" Review

April 19, 2017

"Transfixing images map the uncharted territory of visceral passion gone the way of meta awareness"

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For the Silver Screen: Movies By and About Artists at the Tribeca Film Festival

By Steve Dollar

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Love it! Thank you Steve Dollar!

April 19, 2017

16 must-see films at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival

By  Greg Ptacek

April 19, 2017

28 Films, TV and VR Pieces We’re Excited About at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival

April 19, 2017

Fun interview with Carmela Baranowska!

April 19, 2017

"It’s an eerie and fascinating concept to watch a relationship from its gleeful beginning to its soured end."

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Tribeca Film Festival 2017 Celebrates Women

By Dorri Olds

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April 18, 2017

10 Movies We're Excited to See at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival 

By Emily Buder

April 18, 2017

Tribeca 2017 Women Directors: Meet Josephine Decker — “Flames”

By Joseph Allen

April 18, 2017

2017 Tribeca Film Festival Preview: 20 Must-See Films To Watch 

By Will Ashton​

April 15, 2017

This Week In Trailers: Last Men in Aleppo, Another Evil, STEP, Flames, Violet

By Christopher Stipp 

April 14, 2017

First Trailer for Docu-Art Hybrid 'Flames' Follows a Filmmaking Couple

By Alex Billington

April 13, 2017

Passion Turns To Heartbreak In the First NSFW Trailer For Josephine Decker’s ‘Flames’ 

By Rodrigo Perez

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April 13, 2017

"Deeply intimate and very original" 

"Often wonderful, occasionally excruciating"

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Josephine Decker and Zefrey Throwell’s Tangled Romance Blends Fact and Fiction

By Kate Erbland

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Our trailer premiered on Indiewire today! Hooray!

March 02, 2017

We are in Tribeca Film Festival!!!

Hooray!

March 02, 2017

Tribeca Film Festival line up

By Derek Lawrence