[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
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 and Philip Glass, appear in interviews to discuss the career and impact of the painter.... [More]
Genre: Education/General Interest
Starring: Philip Glass, Robert Rauschenberg
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01/03/08
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Although 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 Critic
Through 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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