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Reviews Counted:18
Fresh:16
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Average Rating:7.3/10
Theatrical Release:Aug 31, 2005 Limited
Synopsis: In 1976, at the age of 37, unassuming photographer William Eggleston shook the foundations of the art world with his show of color photographs at the Museum of Modern Art. Three decades later,... [More]
Director: Michael Almereyda
There is a sense of impromptu genius, of exactitude colliding with suddenness as the seemingly banal is rendered, for a moment, vividly permanent. Eggleston's photos force the viewer to behold the beauty of the commonplace.
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Watching "William Eggleston in the Real World" is frustrating but intriguing.
Eggleston is obviously wired a little different than most of us, like all real artists, he sees things most of us don't...
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Top CriticAn uncannily revealing portrait of a major American artist at work, all the more remarkable for the deceptive casualness with which it unfolds, as if Almereyda had just shown up.
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As a subject, he's reluctant to navel gaze, and his words -- subtitled because of his low, mumbling speech -- rarely provide an insight into his talent.
William Eggleston in the Real World offers an admiring and affectionate, if also unillusioned, view of its subject at work, play, and not much of anything (a suitably Egglestonian activity).
Top CriticAt times, the cinema verite style suggests the 'psychic disarray, intimately observed' (Almereyda's words) of Eggleston's own 1970s video project, 'Stranded in Canton'...
An absorbing depiction of the artist.
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The result isn't particularly mesmerizing, but it does offer a well-rounded portrait that will be of particular interest to photography lovers.
Top CriticWithout slavishly imitating the photographer's distinctive style, Almereyda also manages to connect his own images to all that's 'Egglestonian' in the photographer's world.
Eggleston's rigor might be mistaken for languor, but Almereyda has just the temperament to get it right.
Top CriticWhat Almereyda sees in Eggleston's work are the things that seem to drive Almereyda's films: life as a continual paradox.
Ultimately, biodoc is less about Eggleston living in the 'real world' than about Almereyda filming there.
Top CriticConsistently more intriguing than Almereyda's recent documentary of a Sam Shepard play rehearsal (This So-Called Disaster), in part due to the subject's taciturn nature and his disinterest in the hows and the wherefores of his craft.
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