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PRESS EXCERPTS for GUEST OF CINDY SHERMAN
REVIEWS/ARTICLES/INTERVIEWS/BLOGS
Reviews:
VARIETY MAGAZINE
Excerpt: If a doc manages to inform and entertain, it's ahead of the competition. If it features engaging personalities (or penguins), so much the better. And if it manages not to lose its assets while dipping its toe into murkier issues -- becoming, say, a brow-knitting thumb-sucker -- then it's really a work of art; such is "Guest of Cindy Sherman." Co-producing Sundance Channel should immediately allow the film to run free in the theatrical playground, where art lovers/voyeurs will adopt it as their own.
Full-Text: : http://www.variety.com/review/
PREMIERE
Excerpt: Guest of Cindy Sherman is a riveting, witty and quite sophisticated portrait of three overlapping subjects of varying depths, which belies the self-serving sameness of most artist docs. On its surface, appropriately, the film offers a rare opportunity to see the mysterious Sherman in the limelight, albeit a cheap one attached to H-O's ever-present camcorder. Full-Text: http://www.premiere.com/features/4566/tribeca-2008-critics-notebook-3.html
TIME OUT NEW YORK (*****)
Excerpt: In his documentary Guest of Cindy Sherman, Paul brings the art world of the ’80s and ’90s down to an accessible level for those relatively unfamiliar with it. And while the story is based around art, it is also a love story. Paul befriends—and ultimately winds up dating—the iconic and notoriously reclusive artist Cindy Sherman. Full-Text: http://www.timeout.com/newyork/tonyblog/?p=3308
THE NEW YORK SUN
Excerpt: "Guest of Cindy Sherman" evolves from a story about the New York art scene at the close of the 20th century to an intimate profile of both an outcast and an insider, and emerges as a surprisingly powerful psychological drama about a man lost in the glare of the spotlight and immersed in a frantic bid to rediscover himself. Full-Text: http://www.nysun.com/arts/odd-couples-2008-04-22/75061/
THE VILLAGE VOICE
Excerpt: The film depicts the high-flying New York art world of the late '80s and '90s, including the year—1990—that Cindy Sherman broke big. Her wry self-portraits attract celebrities, major bucks, and the brash Paul H-O, whose persistence scores him a rare invitation to Sherman's studio. Footage from the interviews he conducted there reveal a fluttery, adorable figure whose nerves betray a woman smitten. Full-Text: http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-04-22/film/tribeca-08/
ART LOVERS NEW YORK
Excerpt: PAUL H-O who churned out GalleryBeat on Public Access TV - in the early 90s - with WALTER ROBINSON !! - (that’s what you did when you wanted to rock the artworld before there was the web) - & - TOM DONAHUE of ‘WASHINGTON HEIGHTS’ acclaim - have put together a really intimate & witty reflective documentary - that you don’t often get to see - I wonder, why! …. that it includes footage of some of our favorite people in the art world, and what a diff 5 years can make - is the icing on the cake. this IS the one to go see…. Full-Text: http://www.artloversnewyork.com/zine/the-bomb/2008/05/05/guest-of-cindy-sherman-2/
THE NEW ZEALAND LISTENER
Excerpt: As art documentaries go, Paul Hasegawa-Overacker and Tom Donahue’s Guest of Cindy Sherman is a remarkably watchable record of the New York art scene at the turn of the last century. Footage of superstar artist Sherman, with her wigs, novelty plastic torsos and deliberately caked-on make-up, making art – something even her assistants do not get to see – is a little like the 1967 Patterson-Gimlin Super 8 footage of Bigfoot: rare, surprising…. Full-Text: http://www.listener.co.nz/issue/3546/artsbooks/10935/
ELLE MAGAZINE
Excerpt: Official word is that Sherman wants nothing to do with it and is even apologizing to friends who were filmed for it, but I found it sweet, disturbing, awkward, and romantic all at once--and one of the most revealing portraits I've ever seen of the mistress of camouflage.. Full-Text: http://fashion.elle.com/blog/2008/05/cindy-sherman-a.html
ARTICLES:
ART FORUM
Excerpt: Throughout this entertaining, incestuous film, art-world personalities and assorted stars appear as talking heads. Eric Bogosian says, with conviction, “The art world is such bullshit.” John Waters sneers, “I’m glad the art world is elitist. I think art for the people is a terrible idea.” Elton John’s young husband sympathizes with Paul’s plight, recounting how he once threw a hissy fit at a gala that got Uma Thurman ejected from her spot next to Captain Fantastic. Molly Ringwald’s husband, Panio Gianopoulos, also acknowledges occasional discomfort with his Mr. Man role.
Full-Text: http://www.artforum.com/diary/id=20121
HIGH RECOMMENDATIONS:
NEW YORK MAGAZINE: Sara Cardace highlights the film as one of the festival's "Four Not to Miss" films.
Link: http://nymag.com/movies/filmfestivals/tribeca/46210/
TIME OUT NEW YORK: Selected the film as one of their "Ten That Intrigue Us."
Link: http://www.timeout.com/newyork/articles/film/28466/ten-that-intrigue-us
AM NEW YORK: Selected the film as one of “30 of the festival’s most promising pickings.”
Link: http://www.amny.com/entertainment/movies/am-tribeca3d0418,0,2341162.story
INTERVIEWS:
SALON.COM Excerpt: I had been an artist for 25 years, and I'll tell you, I took a real beating from that experience. The art world is extremely psychologically brutal on the psyche of the artist. It's like "Survivor." …. Full-Text: http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/2008/05/02/cindy_sherman/
indieWIRE Excerpt: In the Tribeca catalog, TFF programmer David Kwok writes, "'Guest of Cindy Sherman' paints a vivid picture of New York art scene increasingly driven by money and fame... The end result is a witty, illuminating look at celebrity, male anxiety, and art." Full-Text: http://www.indiewire.com/people/2008/04/tribeca_08_inte_5.html
AMC-TV Video Link: http://www.amctv.com/videos/
There are many more articles, reviews and interviews but these excerpts represent the effect Guest of Cindy Sherman has on writers as an audience once they experience the real world of high art.
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