2017
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2017
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1 h 21 m

Summary In the 1980s, Richard Hambleton was the Shadowman, a specter in the night who painted hundreds of startling silhouettes on the walls of lower Manhattan and, along with Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, sparked the street art movement. After drug addiction and homelessness sent him spinning out of the art scene for 20 years, the Shad...

Directed By: Oren Jacoby

2017
Yleisradio (YLE)
1 h 21 m

2017
Yleisradio (YLE)
1 h 21 m

Shadowman

Name: Shadowman
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Released: 2017-12-01
Duration: 1 min 21 s
Rating: 78
Cast: Richard Hambleton, Andrew Valmorbida, Mette Madsen, John Woodward, Michael Carter

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews

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Los Angeles Times

Dec 7, 2017

Shadowman is at its unsettling, want-to-look-away best when tiptoeing around the question of what makes for success regarding artists like Hambleton: the hoopla that keeps the work in circulation, or the mysterious inner pilot light that keeps a self-destructive talent going?

By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW

Village Voice

Nov 30, 2017

[A] heartbreaking doc.

By Alan Scherstuhl FULL REVIEW

The New York Times

Nov 30, 2017

This intense documentary shows a driven creator walking the walk, so to speak, in the most perverse fashion possible. The story is both repellent and strangely inspiring.

By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW

Screen Daily

Nov 27, 2017

Jacoby delivers an adroit portrait of the artist at work in a technical package which wraps itself smoothly around this intense, surprising story.

By Fionnuala Halligan FULL REVIEW

The Hollywood Reporter

Nov 27, 2017

Achieves its goal of shining a spotlight on its subject while delivering a fascinating true-life tale.

By Frank Scheck FULL REVIEW

Slant Magazine

Nov 27, 2017

This is a gruesome art-world fairy tale unafraid to face the bitter details of its hero's tumultuous life.

By Peter Goldberg FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Storyville Films, Motto Pictures

Release Date Dec 1, 2017

Duration 1 h 21 m

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Website http://www.storyville.org/portfolio/shadowman-2/

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Tribeca Film Festival

• 2 Nominations

Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival

• 1 Nomination

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Richard Hambleton

Self

Andrew Valmorbida

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Mette Madsen

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John Woodward

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Michael Carter

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Penny Arcade

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Clayton Patterson

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Carlo McCormick

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Ramones

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Mark Kostabi

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Keegan Hamilton

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Nemo Librizzi

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Richard Hell

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Anne Hanavan

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Rick Librizzi

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Robin Cembalest

Self, executive editor of ARTnews

Phoebe Hoban

Self, author of 'Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art'

Jean Michel Basquiat

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Keith Haring

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Simon de Pury

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