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By Forrest Hartman (372) for Reno Gazette-Journal (441) on 08 Oct 2006

Sketches isn't for everyone, as enjoyment requires at least an elementary interest in architecture or art…

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By Dennis Schwartz (5,456) for Ozus' World Movie Reviews (5,456) on 11 Aug 2006

A lovable softball documentary on a lovable acclaimed architect famous for his controversial unique looping indescribable structures…

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By Brian Gibson (578) for Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada) (50) on 09 Aug 2006

An allusive and elusive tracing of the man and his work that also offers a rueful rumination on the artistic process…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 04 Aug 2006

The result is not a formal doc but an extended chat between two professionals who, as Pollack puts it, search for a sliver of space in the…

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By Marrit Ingman (203) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 30 Jun 2006

The film has lovely moments – Gehry buildings can be extremely photogenic, after all – but it doesn't sink its teeth in the way it probably…

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By Richard Nilsen (100) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 28 Jun 2006

A refreshingly small-scale film, almost a home movie made by the director of such films as Tootsie, Out of Africa and The Way We Were…

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By Jack Garner (583) for Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (558) on 22 Jun 2006

Because the two men are long-time friends, viewers get a sense of openness and like-minded artistic attitudes that far exceed what you might…

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By Duane Dudek (861) for Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (1,693) on 22 Jun 2006

The film is almost entirely a love letter between similarly minded colleagues of different disciplines…

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By Thomas Peyser (78) for Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) (78) on 20 Jun 2006

What's most interesting about this coffee-table book of a movie is its exposure of the media-architectural complex…

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By Jim Slotek (879) for Jam! Movies (2,396) on 15 Jun 2006

Whatever you think of his legacy, Pollack's film makes a firm case for Gehry's complexity and the power of his ideas…

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By Terry Lawson (645) for Detroit Free Press (942) on 15 Jun 2006

It is a few meaningful glimpses into the mind and life of a man who resists being seen as complex and singular…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Ebert & Roeper (629) on 11 Jun 2006

I think every time Gehry comes into a city and adds his signature, it just makes the people in the city proud of it…

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By Carrie Rickey (1,198) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 09 Jun 2006

Best of all is the ride through the architect's own domestic space in Santa Monica, dubbed by locals the house that built Gehry…

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By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 08 Jun 2006

An engaging, if incomplete, tribute that gives the director, as well as the subject, the opportunity to shine…

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By David Dillon (1) for Dallas Morning News (1,592) on 07 Jun 2006

In its own relaxed, meandering way it offers valuable insights into how a major artist thinks and works…

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By Jessica Reaves (90) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 07 Jun 2006

Whatever you think of Gehry's architecture, if you have any interest in art, or the interplay between light and shadow, or the way buildings…

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By Sean Burns (1,156) for Philadelphia Weekly (778) on 06 Jun 2006

The movie turned out about as well as you might expect from something that dares to open with a frank declaration of the director's incompetence…

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By Robert Denerstein (1,148) for Denver Rocky Mountain News (608) on 01 Jun 2006

Look at Gehry. Look at the work. Neither he nor we can be sure precisely how so many glorious buildings came into being…

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By Willie Waffle (1,383) for WaffleMovies.com (1,380) on 31 May 2006

Pollack is too friendly with his subject (almost to the point of having a man crush on Gehry), so the theme of Sketches of Frank Gehry is reduced…

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By Sean Axmaker (1,564) for Seattle Post-Intelligencer (2,422) on 31 May 2006

The camera drinks in the angles, curves and textures, and the way it all shapes the light as if it's yet another of Gehry's non-traditional…

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