Smash His Camera

Name: Smash His Camera
Genre: Documentary
Released: July 30, 2010
Duration: 87 min
Rating: 68

2010

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Home Box Office (HBO) | Release Date: July 30, 2010 | PG-13

Summary: A film centering on the life and work of Ron Galella that examines the nature and effect of paparazzi.

Director: Leon Gast

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 87 min

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Noel Murray

So what happens when people forget about all those people he stalked and snapped? Will his collection still be seen as an invaluable store of late 20th-century art, or the work of a celeb-obsessed hoarder? Read full review

Movieline Michelle Orange

Fittingly, there is something both thrilling and deeply unpleasant about looking at Galella's body of work -- there is casual genius in some of the captured moments, a combination of access, timing, and luck, with the subject almost always carrying most of the image's weight. Read full review

Andrew O'Hehir

Highly entertaining and skillful documentary. Read full review

Eric Hynes

Gast's documentary portrait has a freewheeling charm that perfectly matches its subject. Read full review

A.O. Scott

In Smash His Camera Mr. Galella emerges as a kindred soul for the curious documentarian and as a large, complicated personality in his own right, not entirely likable but admirable for his persistence and the quickness of his index finger. Read full review

Elizabeth Weitzman

There's no denying that paparazzo Ron Galella is a New York character. What's at issue in Leon Gast's entertaining documentary is whether he's an artist or a creep. Read full review

Andrew Schenker

Galella's real crime goes conspicuously unmentioned: feeding the cult of celebrity while stoking a public appetite for empty gossip as news. Read full review

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Tony

Jan 9, 2011

Both a fascinating portrait of the first and most infamous paparazzo and a thought-provoking look at first amendment rights. Its subject is charming, but Gast goes out of his way to provide a very reasonable counterbalance. One of the best docs of 2010.

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