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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 Elliot P (107) on 11 Jun 2006

Before I saw this documentary, everything I knew about architect Frank Gehry I learned from an episode of [i]The Simpsons[/i]…

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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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By David Elliott (754) for San Diego Union-Tribune (1,408) on 25 May 2006

Perhaps less a form-giver than a brash structural animator, Gehry has made edifices both exquisite and exhibitionistic…

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By Glenn Whipp (553) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 18 May 2006

Gehry, a cheerful, energetic, self-deprecating man closing in on his 80th birthday, makes for an engaging subject…

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By Scott Foundas (913) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 17 May 2006

Though Gehry and Pollack have long been friends, the veteran Hollywood director confesses early on to being an architecture neophyte, and so…

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By Steve Rhodes (1,488) for Internet Reviews (1,487) on 15 May 2006

Even if you know nothing of Gehry's designs, you'll be immediately and completely engrossed in the story and the images…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 15 May 2006

Sketches was produced for PBS's American Masters series, but it's in theaters now and deserves to be seen on the largest possible screen…

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By Maitland Mcdonagh (2,150) for TV Guide (1,527) on 11 May 2006

Rescued from its inclination to smug, celebrity-testimonial-driven hagiography by Gehry's own considerable charm and infectious enthusiasm…

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By Lou Lumenick (2,103) for New York Post (6,650) on 11 May 2006

The Sketches of Frank Gehry will appear this fall on PBS' American Masters, which seems a more appropriate venue than theaters…

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By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 11 May 2006

There's a casual informality to Pollack's documentary technique....results are semi-revealing…

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