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Doc Humes was a man of many identities: novelist, co-founder of The Paris Review, cultural provocateur, inventor and Hippie Philosopher King. In a stylistically original take on a literary "beautiful mind," Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Immy Humes tells her father's story through a stellar cast that includes Paul Auster, Peter Matthiessen, George Plimpton, Norman Mailer, Timothy Leary--as well as the FBI and CIA. An INDEPENDENT LENS selection.
Produced in association with ITVS
Premiere: Independent Lens, December 9, 2008 at 10 PM
"The fascinating life story of its subject, a brilliant man whose early life reads like a road map to the ideologies of the beat era…"
- New York Magazine
"Absorbing! DOC emerges as a quintessential countercultural figure, embodying both the exuberance and the excesses of the times. "
- Time Out New York
"Jam-packed with interviews with notable 20th-century cultural figures."
- New York Times
"Casual footage from the era captures the excitement of liberation and the headiness of artistic ferment.... "
- Variety
"PBS will air a documentary titled DOC as part of its award-winning Independent Lens series... The film's director is his 49-year-old daughter, Immy Humes. And it's a testament both to his mad brilliance and to her perseverance."
- The Washington Post
"The story of Harold Louis "Doc" Humes is at once sad, fascinating, funny, and tragic. "
- Poets and Writers
"The story Immy Humes tells is compelling because it is a story of great talent unfulfilled, and because it is a family story of mental illness and of reconciliation."
- Huffington Post
"George Plimpton and Paul Auster are among the authors and scenesters who laugh, frown, and goggle their eyes over H.L. Humes in the highly entertaining DOC, an Independent Lens number shot by his daughter Immy Humes over many years. "
- Slate
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