“Canadian filmmaker Barbara Sternberg's Like a Dream that Vanishes …alternates between a Brakhagian montage of manipulated and distressed images and footage of a charming elderly philosopher expounding on Hume's treatise on miracles and its metaphysical implications, Sternberg too searches for the residue of the absolute. Obviously a nod to fellow Canadian Jack Chambers's rarely seen masterpiece Hart of London, the film looks for Truth in the ghostly apparitions of a past era, peeling away the surfaces in search of their essence. Although many of its optically printed passages struck me as somewhat stiff and artificial, the film as a whole is enigmatic and compelling, and a real discovery. While Sternberg is hardly known in the United States, she's been making films for years, and is the subject of a lovely new monograph, which ought to prompt one of the innumerable screening spaces in town to bring in a program of her films.” (“NYFF 2000” by Brian Frye, IndieWire)