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Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film
  • Release Date: Sep 1, 2006
Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film Image
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86 out of 100

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7.8 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 4 Ratings

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  • Summary: Ric Burns's 4-hour, epic Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film, is a portrait of one of the 20th century's most influential, controversial, and paradoxically mystifying artists. (FilmForum)

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  1. Positive: 9 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 9
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  1. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    100
    "Andy Warhol" makes you see that beneath the gargoyle hipster mask, he filled that emptiness with an art of transcendent sincerity.
  2. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Ed Halter
    90
    The result is an intellectual history of Warhol, bucking the trend toward the star-studded VH1-ization of biodocs and constructed with a mission to dispel the artist's own self-created image as high-fashion hobnobber in favor of a more profound depiction. Burns argues for a cogitating, agitating Warhol: deep thinker, cultural barometer, and world changer.
  3. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Andrew O'Hehir
    90
    Burns has accomplished something both remarkable and reassuring. Remarkable because this is a compelling film, blending astonishing historical images with long-winded talking-head interviews, in vintage Burnsian style, and reassuring for almost the same reason.

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  2. Mixed: 1 out of 3
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  1. sonicfun
    10
    Instant Documentary Classic and nothing short of supurb.
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  2. [Anonymous]
    9
    Excellent direction and epic. Way too long yet nontheless mindblowing and unbelievable.
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  3. Joshua
    5
    I was looking forward to this (especially given the reviews), but I was left disappointed. As a film, it was repetitious and slow. As a documentary, I didn’t feel it treated Warhol with the care it showed his work. While I felt there was nuance in the way his work was discussed, the picture it drew of Warhol was almost cartoony – genius artist, but physically ugly as a child and emotionally ugly as an adult.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes