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Cousin Bobby is a 1992 American documentary film directed by Jonathan Demme. The film focuses on Demme's cousin, Robert W. Castle, an Episcopalian minister in Harlem, New York.
Cousin Bobby: Directed by Jonathan Demme. With Jane Castle Moulton, Kate Castle, Nancy Castle, Robert W. Castle. A documentary about Director Jonathan Demme's cousin, an Episcopalian minister in Harlem.
May 29, 1992 · Demme's affectionate portrait of his cousin traces Castle's story, beginning with his first parish assignment, in New Jersey in the early 1960s, in an increasingly African-American-populated neighborhood rocked by violence and civil rights protests.
Cousin Bobby. Robert Castle is the idealistic pastor of St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Harlem, and also the cousin of filmmaker Jonathan Demme. Demme's affectionate portrait of his cousin...
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Jun 26, 1992 · "Cousin Bobby" is the Rev. Robert Castle, a white Episcopalian priest who has served an inner-city church in Harlem for many years. He is also the childhood friend of his cousin Jonathan Demme, director of "The Silence of the Lambs" and many other films, but the two cousins had been out of touch for many years before the making of this documentary.
May 29, 1992 · "Cousin Bobby," handsomely shot by several cinematographers including Ernest Dickerson, concludes on a stark, sobering note with archival scenes of the fiery damage caused by American race...
Looking through Jonathan Demme's docs, Cousin Bobby is an odd one in the canon. It's extremely personal, features narration and on screen roles by Demme himself. It's also his oldest, a collection of various scenes of Harlem poverty and his cousin's political activism.
For the Reverend Robert Castle, the cousin Demme hasn't seen for over 30 years, is not only a colourful figure - a politically radical Episcopalian minister battling against the poverty, racism...
Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme (Silence of the Lambs) catches up with his long-lost cousin, Robert Castle, a fiery Harlem-based white Episcopalian priest.
Documentary about director Jonathan Demme's cousin, the Reverend Robert Castle, a minister at St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Harlem; it focuses on his life and struggle for social reform as well as the reunion of the two cousins who hadn't seen each other in over 30 years.
