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Excellent, Without a doubt!!

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Finding Vivian Maier shoulders the task of condensing a life time of over 100,000 photographs in to an hour and a half. And overall it does a pretty good job, providing a lovely showcase of the combination of old school charm and timeless beauty that has given Maier such posthumous popularity. Each shot also does a good job of contributing to the analysis of what the content of the photographs say about the woman behind the camera. The interviews are also full of much lively character. And the insight they are able to gather at times from simple things like facial expressions and tonal delivery is reminiscent of the distinct human touch present in Vivian's photographs. The only thing holding it back from being absolutely fantastic is how overplayed the mysterious aspects of Maier's life can be. Given that the mysteriousness behind her work is what gives it much of its allure, the film makers seem reluctant to fully realize Vivian as a concrete character. In a movie filled with thought provoking questions Finding Vivian Maier scarcely provides any answers. Why are the surviving members of Maier's family barely interviewed at all? Why are the thousands of recordings of Vivian speaking only used sparingly? Why does the film only dedicate a few minutes to the signs of mental disorders and abusive tendencies Maier showed? I can only conclude that the film makers wanted the mysticism that surrounds Maier to remain in tact. The movie still provides a reasonably good account of Maier's life, there are just some points where I wish there was more closure and fully realized concepts . It is still worth watching though for the thoughtfully put together photographs and interviews.

what I can be sure about Vivian is that she did live in a way that she decided to have. sure maybe she wanted more money, maybe she desired some other stuff. but within her capability, she did her best to live a life as she would love to. I admire this courage and freedom. another thing that this movie can tell you is that people with talent don't need to worry about all the techniques and so forth. of course you need to know about the basic staff of how to taking a photo. but If you got something that you wanna express, just find a way and do it. In Vivian's mind, photography was never about getting fame and rich, it's even not a career. it's just a way to express herself and communicate with the world. and this shocked me. nowadays people are desperate for recognition. whatever we do, we seem not to please ourselves. with all the social media this tend to get worse. sometimes we are doing things and in our mind we are planning how to post it online and how to make myself look good and superior.this is wrong. we are losing our lives to some superficial "like". we are losing who we are.

Vivian Maier, living incognito as a nanny, led a mysterious double life – unbeknownst to all, she was a prodigious street photographer, taking more than 100,000 pictures in her lifetime. She died without resources – and without recognition. Enter John Maloof, who years later, bought a box of her negatives at an auction, and discovered what he had – spending countless hours devoted to bringing her work to the public. Thanks to his efforts, Vivian Maier is now considered one of the major photographic portraitists of the last century. Fiction, you ask? Nope, an Oscar-nominated documentary. Finding Vivian Maier is part mystery, part documentary, part biography, and never boring.O'Toole likes the story behind the work. Hollister is all about the genius of the work itself. While this is one podcast where imagery might have made it better, the descriptions of the work by Hollister and the story behind the artist by O'Toole more than make up for the fact that you will have to rush to your computer and look up the work long before the podcast is over.Podcast available at - http://screenthoughts.net/podcast/finding- vivian-maier/

"The history of street photography is being rewritten."John Maloof's life changed when he bought a box full of old negatives in a local auction house. He was simply trying to find old pictures of his neighborhood for a history book, but what he got in return was more than he bargained for. He discovered these amazing street photographs taken by a woman named Vivian Maier and started posting them on his blog. Eventually the photos began getting some recognition and Maloof decided to start digging into this person's past and figuring out who she was and why she never developed all those negatives. Using the archive footage from the negatives he began piecing together certain elements of Vivian's past. Through interviews of people who knew Vivian years ago, Maloof tries to understand what motivated this mysterious woman to take these brilliant photographs. His first mission was to get her beautiful pictures artistically recognized, and once he does he begins to try to solve the enigmatic mystery of her past. The documentary works extremely well as this mysterious character study that begins to take form through Vivian's photographs and interviews with the few people that actually had interacted with her when she worked as a nanny for a number of families in New York. Finding Vivian Maier stands out from other documentaries in that it is narrated extremely well with the mystery element surrounding Vivian's life. The fact that this woman was fortunately discovered by Maloof and brought to the public's attention is quite fascinating. I'm no photography expert, but the pictures look amazing and there is no question Maier was a talented artist. Big props to John Maloof for making such an amazing discovery and doing such great investigative work.