William Eggleston In the Real World
by Michael Almereyda
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Actor: Leigh Haizlip, Michael Almereyda, William J. Eggleston, Winston EgglestonDirector: Michael Almereyda
Brand: Universal Studios
Cinematographer: Michael Almereyda
Producer: Michael Almereyda
Writer: Michael Almereyda
Editor: Johannes Weuthen
Editor: Joshua Falcon
Producer: Alexis Zoullas
Producer: Anthony Katagas
Producer: Donald Rosenfeld
Producer: Heather Parks
Producer: James Patterson
Producer: Jesse Dylan
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Unknown; English (Original Language), Unknown
Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 87 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-02-14
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Palm Pictures / Umvd
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- Michael Almereyda's Award-winning documentary William Eggleston In The Real World reveals the deep connection between photographer William Eggleston's enigmatci personality and his groundbreaking work, and also reveals his parallel commitments as a musician, draftsman and videographer. Almereyda tracks the photographer on trips to Kentucky, Los Angeles and New York, but gives particular at
DVD Reviews of William Eggleston In the Real World
DVD Review: Eccentric Pleasures
Summary: 5 Stars
I am very biased in favor of anything that would bring the extraordinary work of Mr. Eggleston to a wider audience - still please trust me when I say that this film is a remarkable acheivement and a riveting experience and would be even if I knew nothing of Mr. Eggleston's art.
Mr. Almereyda has tricked the ultimate trickster into revealing more of himself than one might have thought possible. Not since Duchamp has anyone delivered the artistic goods with correspondingly well targeted mockery of the 'received wisdoms' of art and photography as Mr. Eggleston. He is a master of misdirection and inscrutible yet unfailingly potent verbal and visual renderings.
So when I heard that someone had set out to produce a documentary on the subject it was a little like hearing that I should step outside if I wanted to watch a neighbor catch a greased pig. I wasn't expecting we would be enjoying pork chops for dinner but I knew there would be quite a show. Mr. Almereyda's film delivers the show and the bacon.
First, the show - Mr. Eggleston's eccentric and loving world of family and friends are photogenic and interesting. They are presented as they are without much fuss and caught in media res. We begin the film by simply ambling along with Mr. Eggleston and his son Winston as they trip over pictures that suggest and offer themselves to Mr. Eggleston, falling as it were into the campfire of his vision like so many moths from the real world looking for that something more. By following this work in the field we get to see and know the craftsman in his primary state -- someone who is out in the world looking and searching still. This allows us more ease as we move into other aspects of his family life and career. This early field work set up helps especially when we're presented with his dialogues which Mr. Eggleston intends (as with the statements of Jasper Johns, Duchamp or some Zen master) to enlighten through confusion and the confounding of the irrational nature of "the real world".
Second, the bacon -- where Mr. Almereyda's work acheives its greatest insight is in revealing Mr. Eggleston's complex yet fundamentally loving nature. A man who despite a well groomed and tended reputation as an enfant terrible is tender to and with all those we see encountered from the very close -- his wife, son, and close friends to the most casual encounters. Witness his thoughtful reassurance to the shopkeeper who offers to move the pinata he wants to photograph -- in reassuring tones he congratulates her on how she's positioned the thing -- he says she's got it just right.
Ultimately, I think that is the bacon -- Mr. Egglston is revealed as a great lover of the world and all that's in it -- even with all the suffering and strife and odd-ball visual awkwardness he sees and presents to us a world that whether we recognize it or not "is just right".
Description of William Eggleston In the Real World
In 1976, William Eggleston?s hallucinatory, Faulknerian images were featured in the Museum of Modern Art?s first one-man exhibition of color photographs. It is rare for an artist of such stature to allow himself to be shown as unguarded as Eggleston does in Michael Almereyda?s intimate portrait. The filmmaker tracks the photographer on trips to Kentucky, LA and NY, but gives particular attention to downtime in Memphis, Eggleston?s home base. The film shows a deep connection between Eggleston?s enigmatic personality and his groundbreaking work.Bestsellers in DVD
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