[Director Marion] Cajori's inventive, endlessly fascinating two-hour take draws freely from those prior studies, and from footage featuring Close and his contemporaries.
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01/03/08
Chuck Close (2007)
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Reviews Counted:6
Fresh:6
Rotten:0
Average Rating:7.6/10
Runtime: 1 hr 56 mins
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
Synopsis: After working on CHUCK CLOSE: A PORTRAIT IN PROGRESS, director Marion Cajori returns to her artist subject with this full-length documentary. Close's peers and friends, such as Robert Rauschenberg... [More]
Reviews for Chuck Close
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01/03/08
Top CriticAlthough the painting montages become somewhat burdensome in their repetition, and an epilogue feels academic in every sense, when Cajori finally pulls away from the finished portrait, the sense of a job done to brimming satisfaction is acutely twofold.
01/02/08
The result is a portrait that should interest art-savvy viewers and neophytes alike.
01/02/08
Chuck Close, about the painter, photographer and printmaker by the documentary filmmaker Marion Cajori, truly excels in its depiction of the physical process of making art.
01/02/08
Top CriticThrough a series of vignettes, interviews with Close's friends and family, the filmmaker reveals the soul of the portraitist.
12/31/07
Late director Marion Cajori’s documentary takes good advantage of intimate access to the iconic artist in an effort to chronicle the fascinating methodology behind his work.
12/17/07
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