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  • 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...

  • 2017
  • Yleisradio (YLE)
  • 1 h 21 m
  • 2017
  • Yleisradio (YLE)
  • 1 h 21 m

Shadowman

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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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...

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80
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
80
Nov 30, 2017
[A] heartbreaking doc.
By Alan Scherstuhl FULL REVIEW
80
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
80
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
80
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
63
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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Awards

Tribeca Film Festival
• 2 Nominations
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival
• 1 Nomination

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