Diverting as Glaser is being retrospective, it’s so much more interesting -- not to mention truer to his achievement -- watching him being creative.
Milton Glaser: To Inform & Delight (2009)
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Reviews Counted:14
Fresh:11
Rotten:3
Average Rating:6.7/10
Theatrical Release:May 22, 2009 Limited
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For many, Milton Glaser is the personification of American graphic design. Best known for co-founding New York Magazine and the enduring I ♥ NY campaign, the full breadth of Glaser's...
For many, Milton Glaser is the personification of American graphic design. Best known for co-founding New York Magazine and the enduring I ♥ NY campaign, the full breadth of Glaser's remarkable artistic output is revealed in this documentary portrait, Milton Glaser: To Inform and Delight. From newspapers and magazine designs, to interior spaces, logos, and brand identities, to his celebrated prints, drawings, posters and paintings, the documentary offers audiences a much richer appreciation for one of the great modern renaissance men.
Artfully directed by first time filmmaker Wendy Keys, the film glances into everyday moments of Glaser's personal life and capture his immense warmth, humanity and the boundless depth of his intelligence and creativity. --© Arthouse Films
Starring: Milton Glaser
Starring: Milton Glaser
Director: Wendy Keys
Director: Wendy Keys
Producer: Wendy Keys
Composer: Hayes Greenfield
Studio: Arthouse Films
Reviews for Milton Glaser: To Inform & Delight
Unfortunately, the portrait first-time director Wendy Keys paints of the 80-year-old is more about myth building than anything else.
An illuminating, compelling and well-focused documentary. Just like Milton Glaser's artworks, it concurrently informs and delights.
Collaborators testify to the continuing influence of Glaser, now almost 80, but seeing is believing in director Wendy Keys’ pleasantly conversational documentary. Expect to mutter “He made that too?” at least a dozen times.
A breezy look at the man somebody says "may be the best-known graphic artist in the world."
Even casual filmgoers should be intrigued, while film buffs and cineastes will find the doc's inside-show biz stories a real treat.
May leave you with the impression that the spirit of modern New York was conjured out of thin air by its subject.
What elevates the film to something more than a talking-heads documentary is the rapport established between Mr. Glaser and Ms. Keys on a project they both saw as a visual and verbal love letter to New York City.
Surely Glaser the trailblazer warrants a more stylistically adventurous tribute than this.
Docu splendidly focuses on the artist but gives shorter shrift to the art itself.
Keys succeeds in limning an engaging portrait of an artist and mentor who's spent a lifetime affirming the power of art to inform and delight, and, if he can help it, effect positive social change.
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