Published on January 26, 2020
But when the rush of breaking news wears off, everyone is left to consider the personal costs â and what is was all for. Whirlybird helps us understand breaking news as a high-flying addiction like any other â one that, for the Tur family, left lots of pain behind.
–https://www.moviemaker.com/whirlybird-zoey-tur-marika-tur-katy-tur-bob-tur/
Sundance 2020: The evolution of L.A.-based news pales in comparison to the personal story in Matt Yokaâs documentary
Elizabeth Weitzman | January 26, 2020 @ 3:15 PM
Thereâs more, though. And since itâs not presented as a spoiler, it should be shared here: As we learn in the contemporary interviews, Bob is no longer Bob, sheâs Zoey. A journalist himself, Yoka skillfully avoids any sense of the exploitation or sensationalism that we see his subjects indulge in occasionally. Zoeyâs identity is important, but so, the movie insists, is Marikaâs. Itâs only once the noise quiets and each gets an equal voice that we can see them clearly, two distinct threads in a compelling portrait of an American family.
–https://www.thewrap.com/whirlybird-film-review-news-helicopter-documentary/
Jan 29, 2020 1:32 pm
Shooting âWhirlybirdâ
Dir: Matt Yoka
Format: 2.8k ProRes 4444
Camera: ARRI Alexa Mini
Lens: Panavision PCZ 19-90mm T2.8 zoom
Cinematographer Ed Herrera: Our earliest conversations revolved around the color photographs of Nan Goldin from the 1980âs. Thereâs something inherently personal about Nanâs aesthetic that we wanted to capture ourselves. We had to earn a psychological sense of intimacy with our subjects. We began that process with the optics and then transitioned to a camera placement arc.
Alexa Lopez at Panavision helped me dig up dozens of wildly different lenses they had in inventory. I shot tests with everything (within the spherical realm) from uncoated modern primes to short antique zooms. we carefully analyzed the way each lens rendered portraiture from different distances.
Jan 29, 2020 12:39 pm
The Tur family tale, in which a plucky young couple fall in love and raise children to a soundtrack of manhunts and forest fires, is undeniably compelling and an obvious fit for the screen. But âWhirlybirdâ is worth singling out for another reason: Itâs a fine example of an aspirational future for trans stories, joining a new wave of films about trans people in which trans-ness is merely one part of the story, in this case even the least interesting part.
–https://www.indiewire.com/2020/01/whirlybird-review-zoey-tur-katy-tur-documentary-1202206730/
BYÂ TONI GONZALESÂ -January 30, 2020
The history of Los Angeles isnât in a museum that you visit. No, it sits on thousands of videotapes in a U-haul storage unit. Or, it did until director Matt Yoka and his team came along to convert it for the new documentary ââWhirlybirdâ.â
–https://www.awardscircuit.com/sundance-review-whirlybird-soars-as-high-as-its-films-subject/
Matt Yoka beautifully weaves in archival footage with contemporary interviews. One can look at Whirlybird as a time capsule. The film captures around 40 years or so in the industry. When it comes to the news business, itâs about being in the right place at the right time. But what happens in the moments leading up to it? This film shows exactly that but nobody said it would be pretty.
–http://www.solzyatthemovies.com/2020/01/26/sundance-2020-whirlybird/
– https://www.siriusxm.com/clips/clip/a9914a41-78d6-4402-8150-b8f14a44945b/8d2d5a4d-139b-4628-9ebf-baa173d32c7d
by Brian Tallerico
January 27, 2020Â
Married couple Marika Gerrard and Bob Tur were on the forefront of a breaking form of news journalism in Los Angeles when Tur bought a helicopter and started flying over the city of angels. Gerrard and Tur were front and center for major news events seen around the world, including the L.A. riots and the O.J. Simpson Bronco Chase, which they chronicled most memorably. That footage of the white Bronco slowly moving down the freeway that everyone in the world has seen? Tur and Gerrard shot it.Â
–https://www.rogerebert.com/sundance/sundance-2020-coded-bias-whirlybird-be-water
Scott Renshaw on January 27, 2020
The central subject is the founders of L.A. News Service, a breaking news operation that began by chasing police scanner calls at street level in the 1980s, before taking to the skies with helicopter footage that became iconic for capturing events like the post-Rodney-King-verdict riots and the O.J. Simpson slow-speed chase.
https://www.cityweekly.net/BuzzBlog/archives/2020/01/27/sundance-2020-reviews-day-4
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