[Editor's Note: Rebecca Miller's documentary Arthur Miller: Writer premiered at the New York Film Festival in October 2017 and was subsequently broadcast on HBO in March 2018. Critically acclaimed as an intimate portrait, the film offers a view of Arthur Miller as Rebecca saw him as her father and as a famous playwright. I invited Arthur Miller scholars to offer their impressions of the film, especially of the private revelations of this most public of men.]
For twenty years Rebecca Miller filmed brief interviews with her father with the intention one day of creating a portrait of a writer and father, a portrait, perhaps, that could be completed only when his story was ended. Finally, over a decade after his death, we are able to see the result in a film, which also includes public interviews as well as those with his family and fellow professionals, excerpts...
