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05/14/07
Matthew Barney: No Restraint (2006)
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Reviews Counted: 20 Fresh: 11 Rotten:9 Average Rating: 6.1/10
Runtime: 71 mins
Synopsis: From 1995 to 2002, avant-garde artist Matthew Barney wrote, directed, and starred in the Cremaster Cycle, five offbeat films featuring unusual situations and bizarre characters. Since 1987, he has also been working on the Drawing Restraint series, in which he uses physical weights and... [More]
Genre: Education/General Interest
Starring: Barbara Gladstone, Matthew Barney, Bjork, Masayuki Komatsu, Michael Kimmelman
Director: Alison Chernick
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05/12/07
An essential companion piece for anyone who feels like they didn't get
04/19/07
More interesting is Chernick's concise survey of Barney's intriguing early work, including weird Vaseline-covered sculptures and footage of him trying to draw while under physical restraints such as a harness, etc.
04/01/07
If Chernick set out to portray the couple's movie project as a bit frivolous and self-absorbed, she succeeded. But I doubt that was the intention.
03/23/07
[Director] Chernick's stylish yet superficial report looks more like an orientation video for museum visitors.
02/02/07
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Barney's art presents a cross between the creepiness of David Cronenberg and David Lynch and the grandiosity and business sense of George Lucas. Chernick's film unquestioningly admires it.
02/02/07
Alison Chernick's documentary attempts to provide some much-needed insight, combining a biographical and artistic portrait of the provocateur.
12/30/06
Top Critic
An absorbing documentary that seeks to explain this most enigmatic of modern artists.
12/22/06
[Director Alison] Chernick misses the chance to follow in the footsteps of documentarian Thomas Riedelsheimer, whose essential artist-at-work films Touch The Sound and Rivers And Tides meditate on the ephemeral nature of the creative act.
12/21/06
Alison Chernick's aptly-named documentary takes us aboard a Japanese whaling vessel to witness the filming of the artist Matthew Barney's film Drawing Restraint 9.
12/20/06
Top Critic
A bit like a cinematic catalog for a gallery retrospective, Matthew Barney: No Restraint serves to explain Barney's m.o. to a wider aud.
12/20/06
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Chernick may not answer every question about this beguiling and enigmatic film, but you wouldn't want it to: Mystery is an essential part of the Barney experience.
12/19/06
Chernick's documentary (and her subject) eloquently trace Barney's inspiration and intention in a way that naturalizes rather than neuters them.
12/19/06
It's interesting to watch [Barney] work and see how he created some of the amazing visuals from Drawing Restraint 9.
12/19/06
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