PHYLLIS AND HAROLD, the feature length film that grew out of Til Death Do Us Part, has just been completed.  Twelve and a half years in the making, it chronicles the filmmaker's parents’ disastrous 59 year marriage and addresses the effects of secrecy on the family.  Told by her mother, Phyllis, a would be Blanche Dubois screen star, her father Harold, a suburban Stanley Kowalski, her sister, Ricky, and herself, a tragically poignant story unfolds and twists and turns in many unexpected directions.

Official Phyllis and Harold website

*Opening in New York City*
February 19, 2010 at Cinema Village
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Opening April 9th in Los Angeles at Laemmle's Music Hall in Beverly Hills and Laemmle's Town Center 5 in Encino

WINNER!   Best Feature Length Documentary
World Jewish Film Festival, Ashkelon, Israel, 2009

WINNER!   Orson Welles Award for Innovative Filmmaking
Presented at the Iowa Independent Film Festival, April 2008.

"I was deeply moved by "Phyllis and Harold" - moved to tears actually several times
and greatly impressed by its power, boldness and originality. What an extraordinarily honest, profound and authentic work, brave, courageous, compelling, and so uniquely put together. A fine and devastating film."  Henry Jaglom, filmmaker

"Phyllis and Harold" is the most outrageously sensual of documentaries.  Its central character, the filmmaker's mother, managed to preserve an opulent, operatic, carnal vision throughout a life of suburban obedience, and the filmmaker reflects this vision with a gorgeously colored, fabulously appealing film.  It's terribly sad, and amazingly agreeable.  The graceful, painful music of two people who dance together for a lifetime, but barely touch."  Wally Shawn, playwright/actor

"...A masterpiece. It is devastating, true, sad, funny, and so moving that it
attracted several of my colleagues who wandered in the screening room and
couldn't leave. It's a new kind of cinematic DNA, ruthlessly honest,
carrying complicated and unsettling messages that won't long leave my brain
and gut."  Ken Burns, filmmaker

“What a movie. It is shocking and riveting in about a hundred
ways. This movie is completely original and new in its conception,
graphics, and affect. I loved it."  Mike Nichols, film and theater director

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What's Up Documentary? Animation and Non-Fiction Filmmaking
March 18, 2009 Cindy Kleine will be a panelist for a discussion with documentary filmmakers and animators moderated by Trilby Schreiber at the New School in New York. Sponsored by Producer's Guild of America and New Media Council. more

News Flash!
Rainbow Releasing has picked up Phyllis and Harold for theatrical and DVD release in Canada and the U.S.

Read articles:
USA TODAY/POP CANDY, Gotta See it: 'Phyllis and Harold' builds buzz and mystery,
   by Whitney Matheson, February, 2010.
Variety, "Phyllis and Harold," by Ronnie Scheib, February 2010.
New Yorker, "Phyllis and Harold," by Richard Brody, February 2010
Time Out NY, "Phyllis and Harold," by S. James Snyder, February 2010
New York Calling, "Phyllis and Harold" by William Wolf, February 2010
Huffington Post, "All About her Mother: Cindy Kleine's Phyllis & Harold." February 2010
Cole Smithey,the Smartest Film Critic in the World. "Phyllis and Harold," February 2010
Great audio interview by tomatoesinthhetrenches. Play interview without text here.
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Toronto Jewish Film Festival's interview with Cindy Kleine, April, 2009
"Brazil Gets Real with Film Festival" from Agence France-Presse
"An Affair to Remember" by Rebecca M. Alvin, Provincetown Magazine, June 2008
"Sex, Lies, and Documentary: Cindy Kleine gets Personal" by Deborah J. Hahn,
     NewEnglandFilm.com
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PHYLLIS AND HAROLD SCREENINGS

Upcoming:

Opening in New York City
February 19, 2010 at Cinema Village
Buy Tickets
(click on "showtimes and tickets" and pulldown menu for date)
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Past:
Australia Jewish Film Festival
Sydney and Melbourne

World Jewish Film Festival, Ashkelon, Israel
October 19-27, 2009

Martha's Vineyard Hebrew Center presents
The Boston Jewish Film Festival
August 2, 2009

Angelica Theatre, Dallas, Texas
July 23, 2009

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
June 7, 11, 18, 2009

Berlin Jewish Film Festival
May 5, 2009

Toronto Jewish Film Festival
April 21, 2009

Santa Fe Film Festival
Friday Dec. 4 2008, Sunday Dec. 7, 2008

International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film
October 27-November 2, 2008

Boston Jewish Film Festival
November 16, 2008
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Rocky Mountain Women's Film Festival
November 9, 2008

Coming of Age Film Series
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center at Dartmouth University
Hanover New Hampshire

Provincetown Film Festival
June 20, 22, 2008
Provincetown, MA

The Iowa Independent Film Festival
April 25-27th, 2008

Walter Reade Theatre, Lincoln Center
April 17, 2008, New York, NY

It's All True: International Documentary Film Festival
Sao Paulo, Brazil CINESESC March 29, 2008 
Rio de Janeiro CENTRO CULTURAL BANCO DO BRASIL, April 1, 2008