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03/28/08
Cool School: How L.A. Learned to Love Modern Art (2008)
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Reviews Counted:7
Fresh:7
Rotten:0
Average Rating:7.5/10
Consensus: A breezy and lively modern art documentary, revealing that LA is not a cultural wasteland when it comes to fine art.
Theatrical Release:Mar 28, 2008 Limited
Synopsis: This documentary explores the embryonic L.A. art scene in the 1950s and '60s. It focuses on the Ferus Gallery, which helped bring together a group of visionary artists who were soon catapulted into... [More]
Starring: Ed Ruscha, Frank Gehry, Dennis Hopper, Dean Stockwell
Director: Morgan Neville
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Reviews for Cool School: How L.A. Learned to Love Modern Art
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Top CriticThe Cool School, a breezy, lively documentary about a thin slice of the Los Angeles fine art scene in the 1950s, is easy on the eyes, and the ears too.
03/28/08
Top CriticCool School is a must for anyone interested in 20th century American art.
03/28/08
Top CriticDocumentarian Morgan Neville takes an appropriately lively, left-field approach to The Cool School's eye-opening history of the Beat-era Left Coast art scene -- a lesser-known chapter in the story of American modern art.
03/26/08
Top CriticAll told, and well told, this is essential history.
03/25/08
Top CriticNo one emerges very well defined from this historical shuffle, but those who know the artists' works, or names such as Hopps and Blum, but have never heard them speak, will find The Cool School absorbing and informative.
03/21/08
Top CriticWhat The Cool School does so well, through its color accents and black-and-white photography...is impart a sense of discovery.
02/22/08
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