Tribeca 2022 Review: Bryan Darling and Jesse Finley Reed’s “All Man: The International Male Story” is a Page-Turner
“They’re selling feelings,” the stylist William Graper says in “All Man: The International Male Story,” speaking about a McDonald’s commercial where everyone can be seen smiling without really talking about the food. His point in Bryan Darling and Jesse Finley Reed’s engaging and introspective history of the men’s mail order catalog International Male covering its three-decade run is that what was actually for sale was besides the point when it came to the publication — early on, it’s noted that the catalog’s founder Gene Burkhard, when pressed for time in the early days of the operation, would let anyone on staff come up with their own fashion creations — and anyone who might be watching the documentary to learn more about clothes should know they’re discussed about as much as they were once worn by the scantily clad underwear models that graced its pages. Read more at The Movable Fest.