This is an exhaustive and at times exhausting documentary; it’s well made and revealing but it required much more editing...
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11/14/08
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts (2008)
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Reviews Counted:27
Fresh:22
Rotten:5
Average Rating:6.5/10
Runtime: 1 hr 59 mins
Genre: New York City, Buddhism, Theatrical Release
Synopsis: When notable narrative director Scott Hicks (SHINE, SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS) picked up an HD camera to shoot some footage of celebrated composer Philip Glass, he had no intention of turning it into... [More]
Director: Scott Hicks
Reviews for Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
As fascinating as Glass often is, it's simultaneously too conventional and not conventional enough.
04/17/08
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04/23/09
Glass acts as a tuning fork that calibrates the significance of a compelling 20th century composer who is still going strong into the 21st.
10/06/07
It seems like a huge waste of time to have this much access to Glass, but come up with little more than a fan page.
06/09/08
Scott Hicks' fascinating new film on Philip Glass ... gives an up-close and very personal view of a man who lives completely inside music.
06/10/08
Hicks avoids many of the pitfalls of artist portraits by grounding the musician firmly in every day reality.
07/26/09
A completely charming piece of work that's as unassuming and winning as the man himself.
04/16/08
Shot on a tight budget and a tighter calendar, the film offers a cinematic style which borders on verite in approach and execution.
11/14/08
An entertaining pic that will fascinate admirers but is wide-ranging and unpretentious enough to engage those intimidated by Glass' aesthetic.
12/27/07
Top CriticGlass fans will like 8-11 of Hicks' 12 parts
07/26/09
A solid portrait that should engage both fans and newbies alike, shot by Hicks himself, cinema verite style.
11/14/08
As haunting in its own way as one of Glass’ own works.
04/14/08
A hair’s breadth from hagiography, Scott Hicks’s Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts is much like its subject: affable, quotable and emotionally guarded in the extreme.
04/18/08
Top CriticCareer of modern classical composer revisited by generally reverential retrospective.
04/16/08
Things perk up when Hicks focuses on Glass' music and working methods, especially with the filmmakers (Woody Allen, Errol Morris and Martin Scorsese included) whose works he's scored.
09/19/08
Doesn't necessarily reveal the insight behind the composer's unique brand of music so much as display the working mode of a passionate artist.
08/22/09
Although rich in family scrapbooks and anecdotes, Scott Hicks' documentary on composer Philip Glass is a portrait of the artist in the present tense.
07/18/08
Hicks structures Glass in 12 vignettes, each highlighting a different aspect of Glass' life, and some are more compelling than others.
07/18/08
Glass's status as one of America's most venerated and mocked highbrows matches gracefully with his peripatetic cultural and spiritual life.
04/13/08
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