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Chuck Close

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Chuck Close (2007)

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Reviews Counted:6

Fresh:6

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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... 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]

Starring: Philip Glass, Robert Rauschenberg

Starring: Philip Glass, Robert Rauschenberg

Director: Marion Cajori

Director: Marion Cajori
Producer: Marion Cajori
Composer: Philip Glass

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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.

Full Review Source: New York Magazine | comment Comment
12/17/07
New York Magazine

Through a series of vignettes, interviews with Close's friends and family, the filmmaker reveals the soul of the portraitist.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
12/31/07
Maria Garcia
Maria Garcia
Film Journal International

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.

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01/02/08
Matt Zoller Seitz
Matt Zoller Seitz
New York Times
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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.

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01/02/08
Michelle Orange
Michelle Orange
Village Voice

[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
Ronnie Scheib
Ronnie Scheib
Variety
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The result is a portrait that should interest art-savvy viewers and neophytes alike.

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01/02/08
V.A. Musetto
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