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  • 2016
  • TV-G
  • Film Movement
  • 1 h 52 m
  • 2016
  • TV-G
  • Film Movement
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Summary Hockney weaves together a portrait of the multifaceted artist from frank interviews with close friends and never before seen footage from his own personal archive. One of the great surviving icons of the 1960s, Hockney's career may have started with almost instant success but in private he has struggled with his art, relationships, and t...

Directed By: Randall Wright

  • 2016
  • TV-G
  • Film Movement
  • 1 h 52 m
  • 2016
  • TV-G
  • Film Movement
  • 1 h 52 m

Hockney

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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Summary Hockney weaves together a portrait of the multifaceted artist from frank interviews with close friends and never before seen footage from his own personal archive. One of the great surviving icons of the 1960s, Hockney's career may have started with almost instant success but in private he has struggled with his art, relationships, and t...

Directed By: Randall Wright

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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62% Positive
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38% Mixed
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90
Apr 21, 2016
Hockney is a little work of art of its own, even if it's so very nice and happy about everything.
By April Wolfe FULL REVIEW
80
Apr 18, 2016
“Everyone is looking all the time; you just have to train yourself to look harder,” Hockney explains. This warm, affectionate, perceptive film makes looking harder look easy.
By Robbie Collin FULL REVIEW
75
May 19, 2016
This is a sunny, admiring documentary about the British (and Los Angeles) treasure David Hockney, who remains productive at 78, is candid and entertaining in interview segments and seems utterly content and grateful for the life he’s had and the artistry he’s been gifted with.
By Richard Roeper FULL REVIEW
70
Apr 18, 2016
An officially sanctioned but pleasingly gush-free cinematic monograph.
By Leslie Felperin FULL REVIEW
60
Apr 21, 2016
When it deepens its intellectual focus, Hockney begins to lose coherence, with rushed sequences that cover his stage designs, his landscapes and his experiments with photography.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
60
Apr 18, 2016
It’s an engaging and garrulous film, and Hockney is now a cheerful, grandfatherly figure, and an object lesson in taking the boy out of Bradford, and not the other way around.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW
50
Apr 18, 2016
After a nearly virtuoso opening, it reduces passages of the painter's life into multiple montages of pop pabulum.
By Clayton Dillard FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Blakeway Productions, Fly Film Company, British Film Company
Release Date Apr 22, 2016
Duration 1 h 52 m
Rating TV-G
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Awards

London Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Royal Television Society, UK
• 1 Nomination

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