First Cousin Once Removed

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First Cousin Once Removed
Directed by Alan Berliner
Starring Edwin Honig
Distributed by HBO
Release date
  • 2012 (2012)
Running time
78 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

First Cousin Once Removed is a 2012 American documentary film directed by Alan Berliner. [1] [2] The film premiered at the New York Film Festival in October 2012. [3] The film is about the life of the poet, translator, critic, and university professor Edwin Honig and his struggles with Alzheimer's disease. [4] Honig and Berliner were first cousins once removed.

References

  1. Watching Memories Slip from the Mind. By John Anderson. The New York Times , September 20, 2013.
  2. ‘56 Ways of Saying I Don’t Remember’. By Alan Berliner. The New York Times, September 16, 2013.
  3. First Cousin Once Removed. Filmlinc.com
  4. Review: 'First Cousin Once Removed' a moving look at Alzheimer's. By Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times , September 19, 2013.