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The Royal Road (2015)

1h 5m

Running Time

The Royal Road (2015)

Name: The Royal Road
Genre: Documentary, History
Released: 2015-03-22

1h 5m

Running Time

Plot.

A fascinating and unlikely reinvention story, The Royal Road simultaneously explores cinematic spiritual channeling, the conquest and colonization of Mexico and the American Southwest, fading historical Californian urban landscapes, and the passions found in butch identity to achieve an achingly beautiful and poetic defense of remembering. Probing roads from El Camino Real, to the Boulevard of Broken Dreams, to the road right outside the front door, Olson crafts a deeply intelligent and transcending observation of the human condition that reaches for redemption in the embrace of history, nostalgia, mindfulness, and sheer beauty. If you give yourself over to it, it will crack you wide open.

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Cast & Crew.

Tony Kushner

(archive sound)

Jenni Olson

(voice) / Director / Writer / Producer

Dawn Logsdon

Editor

Sophie E. Constantinou

Director of Photography

Julie Dorf

Producer

Marc Henrich

Associate Producer

Paul Marcarelli

Executive Producer

Tom Rielly

Associate Producer

Sophia E. Constantinou

Cinematographer

Lora Hirschberg

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Media.

Details.

Release Date
March 22, 2015

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 5m

Genres
Documentary History

Last updated: 2025-02-13

This Movie Is About.

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Wiki.

The Royal Road is a 2015 documentary film directed by Jenni Olson. The film premiered in the New Frontier section of the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. In the film's voiceover, Olson reflects on her butch identity and experiences of unrequited love. The film went on to earn the award for Best LGBTQ Film at the 2015 Ann Arbor Film Festival. Consisting entirely of 16mm urban landscape shots and a lyrical stream of consciousness voiceover, the film touches on a wide range of topics from reflections on classic Hollywood film to the history of the Spanish colonization of California and the Mexican American War. A voiceover cameo appearance by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner serves as the centerpiece for the film's focal point segment entitled, "In Defense of Nostalgia."