Joshua M. Harris, Jason Calacanis, Josh Harris, Tom Harris, Robert Galinsky
Dig! director Ondi Timoner returns to the documentary scene with this look at the dot-com exploits and New York City art party escapades of Josh Harris, the man behind the legendary million-dollar mil... read more 
DVD Release Date: March 2, 2010
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February 11, 2011"The more you get to know everyone, the more alone you become.''
A forewarning... Josh Harris' voyeuristic & somewhat sociopathic tendencies fit perfectly into the beginning of the internet age & he became one of the new cyber multimillionaires in the 90s. But when the web to... read more -
September 3, 2010Its funny how 1 minute you can be on the top of the world & everybody knows your name & the next minute, Everybody forgets who you are.A documentary worth taking a look at
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June 8, 2010A snap shot of an era were the internet was new and rave culture was big. It is amazing that this even exsisted and it seems like a plot for a sci fi movie. Glad I watched it.
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February 23, 2010To be released on DVD March 2nd! This is about the pioneer of social networking websites, Josh Harris and asks: is the internet friend or foe?
Sundance Grand Jury Documentary of 2009, one of Roger Eberts 10 best documentaries of 2009. Is it on your queue?
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December 11, 2009
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post
October 15, 2009
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
This is a remarkable film about a strange and prophetic man. What does it tell us? Did living a virtual life destroy him? Full Review
October 9, 2009
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
Midway through We Live in Public, one Quiet participant delivers the hard social lesson of cyberspace: "The more you get to know everyone, the more alone you become." Full Review
October 9, 2009
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Harris, who appears throughout in interview footage, is an interesting mix -- someone with a serious inability to connect with other people and yet at the same time someone with a consistent ability t... Full Review
September 25, 2009
Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times
If anything, the film is a reflection of the Web zeitgeist, where observation comes easily but insight is rare. What saves the documentary from becoming a complete frustration is the sheer, stunning p... Full Review
September 1, 2009
Rob Nelson, Variety
Like Timoner's DIG!, this astounding new docu burrows into the thin and darkly funny spaces between artistry and vanity, isolation and community, collaboration and exploitation, sanity and madness. Full Review
August 28, 2009
V.A. Musetto, New York Post
There must be a reason why, after all these year, Timoner chose to make a movie about Harris. If you figure it out, please let me know. Full Review
August 28, 2009
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News
A snapshot of several New York eras that coincide with the Internet's growing pains. Full Review
August 28, 2009
Manohla Dargis, New York Times
We Live in Public looks at one man's experiments with issues of privacy. Full Review
August 25, 2009
Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice
What is disturbing is not Harris's self-absorbed insistence that his own emotional hobbling somehow reflects an overarching social-technological pattern, but, instead, Timoner's uncritical cinematic c... Full Review
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