Sketches of Frank Gehry by Sydney Pollack
by Sydney Pollack
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Actor: Barry Diller, Charles Arnoldi, Frank O. Gehry, Julian Schnabel, Sydney PollackDirector: Sydney Pollack
Brand: Sony
Producer: Brainerd Taylor
Producer: Caroline Stevens
Producer: Cathrine Ellis
Producer: Hiro Yamagata
Producer: Julie Goldman
Producer: Krysanne Katsoolis
Producer: Maya Hoffmann
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Japanese (Unknown); French (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 83 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-08-22
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures
DVD Reviews of Sketches of Frank Gehry by Sydney Pollack
DVD Review: A letdown
Summary: 2 Stars
It is very hard for me to like this film after seeing My Architect. Pollock is in love with Gehry's work, which is fine, but it does not a good documentary make. In fact, I'm troubled that the only Gehry detractor in the film is a bald and effeminate architecture critic unable to articulate that as outrageous and weird Gehery's buildings are, many thoughtful people find them merely silly. Some years after Gehry's death maybe, just maybe, will his estranged son create a more robust documentary.DVD Review: Sydney sketches Frank expertly
Summary: 5 Stars
Before Sydney Pollack left us I watched Charlie Rose interview him about this documentary. It's not about Pollack's film work but his creative and honest relationship with Gehry-an artist reflecting the artist-that is wonderful.
Having visited many of Frank Lloyd Wright's work in northern Illinois and now living in a Pacific NW city also blessed with outstanding architects, I've a respect and love for the work of Gehry. The depth allowed shows a master's processes both amazingly collaborative and child-like. It brings back Wright's recollections of playing with blocks as art born from simplicity. Frank has the advantage now of Computer Aided Design although his fascination with fish matches Wright's past.
Bilboa is awesome but a venture into the Seattle Experience work would've been welcome too. So it goes.
You will enjoy this piece of art.
DVD Review: Gehry Sketches
Summary: 3 Stars
With all respect to talented --and unfortunately, late-- Sydney Pollack, I did not find this documentary satisfactory. First and foremost, it lacked focus. The conversations were recorded haphazardly, as if it was a very casual Sunday-morning chat. The subject of "Architectural Design" and a famous architect's approach to his concepts deserve a more serious effort and more structured (no pun intended) presentation.DVD Review: Sketching away...
Summary: 5 Stars
What I really found interesting in this documentary was the fact that Frank Gehry was approached in a very true way by the film maker and the people who loved him and his work...i got this very cosy feeling while watching this documentary...sometimes ad-hoc and some other times brilliantly capturing Gehry's amazing work on camera [ something extremely difficult to achieve, I guess...]. I just wish it had more sketching in it...really showing the master-builder at work...but, then again, maybe that would spoil the cosy atmosphere that i really liked! Great documentary for Gehry admirers and a must see for all architects!DVD Review: Two Icons, One DVD
Summary: 4 Stars
I believe Syd Pollack is the premier moviemaker of my generation. I believe Frank Gehry is one of the Top 3 architects of this period. My interest in architecture/film led me to see this documentary more for the Pollack influence than for Gehry. But, I also have a very close friend who is friends with the Pollack's AND had a relationship with Gehry on previous boards in the 80s. AND, his art collection includes a "fish lamp" in his living room. Spellbound by the story of being offered over $100,000 for this, this, LAMP, I felt it was time to explore Gehry's work in more depth, a two for one.
This DVD is not for commercial sucess, it is a labor of love between two friends. Pollack has no reason to do this other than a love and appreciation for another artist. And Gehry has no reason to be so forthcoming and delve back into his life except to satisfy his friend. So what this becomes is just an open discussion between friends centered around architecture and career.
I must now admit that I am not a large fan of Gehry's architecture. It is too abstract for me. I prefer balance and clean lines and Gehry is about creation and a unique thought process. But I can appreciate the artistry even if it is not my favorite artwork.
This is an important DVD and should be watched as it is a reflection of American artistry from 1960 forward by two masters. But more so, two years later, due to the passing of Syd Pollack, a true legend of a film director. So I am touched and grateful for having watched this shortly before Pollack's death and having also sent this DVD to two other friends to watch and discuss and enjoy the work of Gehry. But also for one more reason: Gehry late in the DVD describes his fascination with the body of a fish and Pollack flashes pictures of the many buildings with unique structure which you can now clearly see are designed like a fish. But it all started with an unattractive lamp......
Description of Sketches of Frank Gehry by Sydney Pollack
Frank gehry has been responsible for the design of some of the most stunning buildings in the world including the walt disney concert hall in los angeles the guggenheim bilbao in spain and the experience music project in seattle. As gehry explains he begins each project by sketching the design. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 04/24/2007 Run time: 84 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Sydney PollackSketches of Frank Gehry by Sydney Pollock chronicles the friendship between director Sydney Pollock and the famed architect every bit as much as it does Gehry and his work, and it makes for a delightful window into the world of creativity and genius. Gehry has made a big imprint (which critics might liken to Bigfoot's) on architecture at the turn of the 21st century; his molten-looking visions have graced buildings small (actor Dennis Hopper's industrial-looking home in Venice, Calif.) to enormous (the sprawling Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain). He's the genius behind Los Angeles's sweeping Walt Disney Concert Hall--which, though formidable in shape and size, manages to nod gracefully to its adjoining, beloved predecessor, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. (He also created the controversial Experience Music Project museum in Seattle, which residents have likened to a giant psychedelic beetle crouched at the foot of the Space Needle.)
For creating such mega-structures, Gehry is remarkably self-effacing; as he and an associate fiddle with a model with bent rooflines and walls, Gehry chuckles, "That is so stupid-looking, it's great!" Yet make no mistake, he possesses a singular vision and strong ego, which we view not only through the wide variety of his works, but also from interviews with friends, architecture critics, and clients, including artist Ed Ruscha, Hopper, L.A. talent manager Mike Ovitz, architect Philip Johnson, and others. Pollock's intimate conversational film allows us to feel as though we're sitting right there on the couch with them, or in Gehry's "factory" of associates and assistants; in its backstage look at the process of creativity, the film feels a little like TV's Project Runway, in the very best sense. As the viewer gets to know Gehry, one finds oneself wishing for more biographical details to be fleshed out--what was Gehry's childhood really like, for instance, and how does he feel about having changed his birth name, Goldberg, at the request of his first wife? Still, for a peek into the world of one of America's most prolific artists, the film is a rare opportunity to get up close and personal. Extras include more conversations between Pollock and Gehry and further examinations of his creations. --A.T. Hurley
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