
A look at the life and career of architect Frank Gehry (1929 - ), a visit to four buildings (the Vitra Museum in Germany, Maggie's Centre, the Guggenheim in Bilbao, and the Disney Concert Hall in L.A.), and an inquiry into creativity in conversations between Ghery and Sidney Pollack, whom Gehry asked to make this picture. Early experiences (playing with blocks with his grandmother, drawing with his father, hearing Alvar Aalto lecture), discovering computer-assisted design, fi... (Full plot summary below)
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A look at the life and career of architect Frank Gehry (1929 - ), a visit to four buildings (the Vitra Museum in Germany, Maggie's Centre, the Guggenheim in Bilbao, and the Disney Concert Hall in L.A.), and an inquiry into creativity in conversations between Ghery and Sidney Pollack, whom Gehry asked to make this picture. Early experiences (playing with blocks with his grandmother, drawing with his father, hearing Alvar Aalto lecture), discovering computer-assisted design, finding a psychoanalyst, experimenting on his own home, and bringing an artist and sculptor's sensibility to architecture are part of Gehry's story. Friends, artists, critics, and curators comment.
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| Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternSketches was produced for PBS's American Masters series, but it's in theaters now and deserves to be seen on the largest possible screen. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzA lovable softball documentary on a lovable acclaimed architect famous for his controversial unique looping indescribable structures. |
| One Guy's OpinionFrank SwietekAn engaging, if incomplete, tribute that gives the director, as well as the subject, the opportunity to shine. |
| Philadelphia WeeklySean BurnsThe 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 and lack of insight. |
| Denver Rocky Mountain NewsRobert DenersteinLook at Gehry. Look at the work. Neither he nor we can be sure precisely how so many glorious buildings came into being. That's the beauty of transcendence. Right there in front of Pollack's camera. |
| Internet ReviewsSteve RhodesEven if you know nothing of Gehry's designs, you'll be immediately and completely engrossed in the story and the images. |
| New York TimesA.O. ScottSketches of Frank Gehry respects the essential enigma of its subject even as it illuminates his ways of thinking about form, space and construction. |
| Detroit Free PressTerry LawsonIt is a few meaningful glimpses into the mind and life of a man who resists being seen as complex and singular. |
| Uruguay TotalEnrique Buchichio(...) Un documental que debería ver todo aquel que alguna vez haya sentido la necesidad o las ganas de crear algo, ya sea una pieza de cerámica, un edificio o una película. |
| Film Journal InternationalDavid Noh[Pollack] and Gehry share a long friendship, which is evident in this elegant, diverting, affectionate documentary. |