(U.S., 2022, 112 minutes, Rated PG)

Written and directed by Lizzie Gottlieb.

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Meet film and theater director Lizzie Gottlieb at the 4th Annual Albany Film Festival on Saturday, April 6th.

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Lizzie Gottlieb’s award-winning documentary explores the remarkable 50-year relationship between two literary legends, writer Robert Caro and his longtime editor Robert Gottlieb (the film director’s father who passed away in June 2023 at the age of 92).

 

In the film, Caro was working to complete the fith and final volume of his masterwork, The Years of Lyndon Johnson, for Gottlieb to edit. The New Yorker's Mary Norris called it “a rare window into a relationship that usually goes undocumented… the dance between editor and writer.”

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The pair, both in their late 80s, had worked together for five decades, starting with Caro's biography of Robert Moses, The Power Broker  and continuing through Caro's first four volumes about Johnson. Its story is focused on the interplay between writer and editor as they work to finish the fifth book rather than a history of their lives and the film features interviews with politicians and media personalities. "I very much wanted this to be a story about them finishing their life's work, not just a retrospective of their lives and how impressive they are," Lizzie Gottlieb said.