“Everybody’s just loving everybody too much for my money,” growls Elaine Stritch, one of the last honest voices in show business and arguably the only virgin ever to prevail against JFK’s sexual advances. For her first film as a director, documentary producer Chiemi Karasawa follows the storied, sassy, 86-year-old Broadway broad around with a camera and intercuts it with archival footage and untold pans-up on vintage 8 x 10s. The film never finds it flow, but the subject consents to peel back enough layers of the onion - including a few “lightning over water” moments where the camera is allowed to eavesdrop on the horrors of aging - to let fall an intricate confessional from the “always on” diva. Woody Allen fans will want to pay close attention to a framed letter of instruction cautioning the actress on how to behave should she decide to accept a part in September. (2014) — Scott Marks
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