A daughter reflects on her father’s life — weaving the story of his miraculous journey from the streets of India with the realities of life in America
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Jun 15
In the documentary “The Gas Station Attendant,” a questioning daughter tries to better understand her own identity by re-examining her frustration with her Indian father’s work. nyti.ms/3PUnmKE
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Opens tonight! firehousecinema.dctvny.org/g…
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"A poignant, intimate tale."-@ThisWeekInNY's rave review of @KarlaMurthy's @GasStationDoc. Opens today @DCTVny with weekend Q&As.
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Jun 10
'I just have been blown away by just how many people have been able to find themselves in this film that felt so specific to me' - Karla Murthy on The Gas Station Attendant and her relationship with her dad eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/202… - out in the US on Friday
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The Gas Station Attendant Documentary retweeted
Jun 10
Here are this week's #CherryPicks #FilmChoices: 7 new movies you can watch in theaters or on streaming this weekend! 🍒🍿
01. Disclosure Day | @disclosureday
02. Find Your Friends | @shudder
03. Promised Sky | @film_movement
04. Stop! That! Train! | @stawpthattrain
05. This Tempting Madness
06. The Gas Station Attendant | @gasstationdoc
07. O Horizon | @variancefilms
Read reviews at thecherrypicks.com.
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The Gas Station Attendant Documentary retweeted
Jun 12
THE GAS STATION ATTENDANT There is more than meets the eye in this deeply personal documentary that grapples with family history film-forward.com/documentary… Ultimately life-affirming. Now @DCTVny
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"[A] deeply moving story about immigration, survival, sacrifice, and the emotional cost of chasing the American Dream." -Screen Zealots on @GasStationDoc by @KarlaMurthy opening @DCTVny Friday!
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An intimate portrait of family, sacrifice & the immigrant dream. @GasStationDoc opens this Fri Jun 12 and screens through Thu Jun 18 with Q&As at select showtimes.
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"A poignant, intimate tale."-@ThisWeekInNY's rave review of @KarlaMurthy's @GasStationDoc. Opens today @DCTVny with weekend Q&As.
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The Gas Station Attendant Documentary retweeted
Jun 12
"The Gas Station Attendant carries the significant weight of relaying an important message about the American immigrant experience within a dangerously regressive political climate." -@TheFilmStage
@GasStationDoc is now 100% on Rotten Tomatoes! Opens today at @DCTVny
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The Gas Station Attendant Documentary retweeted
Jun 10
"[A] deeply personal #documentary about migration, grief, family, and the stories we inherit from the people who came before us."-@PaulEnicola at @The_Movie_Buff in a new interview with @KarlaMurthy on @GasStationDoc opening Friday at @DCTVny
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We happen to agree... come see it at Firehouse Cinema, opening on Friday!
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"[An] intensely honest, astute and affecting film." -@AWFJ on @KarlaMurthy's @GasStationDoc opening this Friday @DCTVny
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The Gas Station Attendant Documentary retweeted
Jun 6
Indian-Filipino roots, planted in the US. #ThisGasStationAttendant provides the gaze of second-generation immigrants to capture the plight of its forbearers. I write about it on @cinema_daily_us @NobuhiroHosoki cinemadailyus.com/?p=34376
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"[An] intensely honest, astute and affecting film." -@AWFJ on @KarlaMurthy's @GasStationDoc opening this Friday @DCTVny
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Come see this beautiful film at Firehouse Cinema from 6/12 - firehousecinema.dctvny.org/g…
"I wanted people to know this person so intimately that by the end they grieve for him" KARLA MURTHY discusses THE GAS STATION ATTENDANT, her moving and deeply personal reflection on the immigrant experience | Screening at @DCTVny from June 12
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A happy hour, audio docs, personal docs, and cinematic Pride celebrations – it’s June at Firehouse. Join us for a Tribeca Happy Hour with @karenSchmeerFEF, a Listening Party! showcase of audio documentaries and sound art, new nonfiction for Father’s Day with Karla Murty’s @gasstationdoc and Katy Scoggin’s FLOOD, and Pride celebrations on screen with Ro Haber’s WE ARE PAT and Drew Denny’s SECOND NATURE. Summer is around the corner, can you feel it?! 🎟️ dctvny.org/firehouse #DCTVFirehouse
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We recommend 17 films to see this June: thefilmstage.com/17-films-to…
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"[A] a remarkable feat of editing as disparate batches of home-video footage is given new life, conveyed with an emotional layer as Murthy tells the reality of the immigration experience for many."-@TheFilmStage on @KarlaMurthy's @GasStationDoc opening June 12th @DCTVny
We recommend 17 films to see this June: thefilmstage.com/17-films-to…
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"I wanted people to know this person so intimately that by the end they grieve for him" KARLA MURTHY discusses THE GAS STATION ATTENDANT, her moving and deeply personal reflection on the immigrant experience | Screening at @DCTVny from June 12
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The Gas Station Attendant Documentary retweeted
May 29
Dir. @KarlaMurthy chats migration and the human cost of the American Dream with the Cinemafile podcast. @GasStationDoc opens in 2 weeks, 6/12 @DCTVny
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