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- 2006
- TV-14
- Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
- 4 h
- 2006
- TV-14
- Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
- 4 h
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)
Directed By: Ric Burns
Written By: Ric Burns, James Sanders
- 2006
- TV-14
- Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
- 4 h
- 2006
- TV-14
- Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
- 4 h
Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film
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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)
Directed By: Ric Burns
Written By: Ric Burns, James Sanders
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Universal Acclaim
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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100% Positive
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"Andy Warhol" makes you see that beneath the gargoyle hipster mask, he filled that emptiness with an art of transcendent sincerity.
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.
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.
What's so mesmerizing about this film is the sight, in an endless rush of color and images, of so much of his work in one place, including
pieces we don't often see.
Art aficionados the world over will want to catch the pic, which PBS airs later this month; given the impact Warhol had on the world, it's a must for culture vultures.
Consistently compelling and required viewing for anyone remotely interested in pop culture.
While there is invariably repetition and drag in [the film], it also bursts with compelling detail and extraordinary insight into an
enigmatic figure about whom we come away more or less enlightened.
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Production Company
1515 Productions Limited,
American Masters Pictures,
American Masters,
Artemis Rising Productions,
Bay Bottom News,
Crew Neck Productions,
DOC Film Institute,
Dakota Group,
DeepFocus Productions Inc.,
Eagle Rock Entertainment,
High Line Productions,
Historic Music Library,
ITVS International,
KQED Public Broadcasting,
Malpaso Productions,
Merrywidow Films,
NGL Studios,
On-Screen Entertainment,
Perfect Day Films,
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS),
RPM Television Productions,
Rainy Mountain Media,
Raven Rouge,
Red Envelope Entertainment,
Spy Pond Productions,
Steeplechase Films,
Submarine Entertainment,
Thirteen / WNET,
Thirteen Productions,
Thirteen for WNET.org,
Thirteen/WNET Communications Group,
Turner Entertainment,
Twin Cities Public Television Inc.,
UnLadyLike Productions,
Vision Maker Media,
Vulcan Productions,
Yap Films
Release Date Sep 1, 2006
Duration 4 h
Rating TV-14
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Awards
Peabody Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Satellite Awards
• 1 Nomination