RENEWING NORMAN

Who is Norman Lloyd?

A movie called Who is Norman Lloyd? better answer its own question. Fortunately, the conventional documentary using that title does just that. A kind, engaging portrait of the 94-year-old veteran actor Lloyd, the movie (directed by Matthew Sussman) applies the Forest Gump effect to show business, revisiting seminal moments in the history of stage and screen production while inserting Lloyd into the legacies of widely acknowledged artisans like Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock and Jean Renoir.

Read the rest of the review (incorrectly attributed to Armond White) in the New York Press...