Delighted to report that my piece about The Loving Story, which I was fortunate to catch at Full Frame -- the festival founded by its director, Nancy Buirski -- is currently running at The Awl.
A trove of previously unseen photographs (many of them taken by Life's Grey Villet) and 16mm film (the latter shot by Hope Ryden in 1965 while the publicity-adverse defendants were living secretly in Virginia) turns the abstract but aptly named “Loving” of Loving v. Virginia back into a family fighting a terrible injustice. The film’s most powerful moments come from two marriages, actually: the Lovings’ and the marriage—a film term never more appropriate—of audio recordings of the Supreme Court testimonies with these photographs and silent footage of Mildred, Richard and their three children doing homely, ordinary things.
Do go read the whole thing here! Reviews of other docs I caught at Full Frame TK chez cinetrix.
