Andy Goldsworthy - Rivers and Tides: Working With Time (2003)
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Reviews Counted: 70 Fresh: 69 Rotten:1 Average Rating: 8.1/10
Consensus:
Andy Goldsworthy and his art are beautifully captured in this engaging documentary.
Runtime: 2 hrs 35 mins
Theatrical Release: Jun 26, 2002 Limited
Synopsis: RIVERS AND TIDES, Thomas Riedelsheimer's mind-blowing new film which won the Golden Gate Award Grand Prize for Best Documentary at this year's San Francisco Int Film Fest follows renowned sculptor Andy Goldsworthy as he creates with ice, driftwood, bracken, leaves, stone, dirt, and snow... [More]
Genre: Education/General Interest
Starring: Andy Goldsworthy
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08/06/08
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If the film lets Goldsworthy overexplain what's happening, it also affords ample to time to languidly take in the imagery and let its beauty and simplicity speak for itself.
04/02/08
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02/09/06
An absorbing portrait of a unique artist’s professional and personal communion with nature.
08/26/05
His work reminds us of an artist's true focus: a meditative commitment to discovery, creativity, and the enhancement of God's own invention.
01/15/05
Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time is an extraordinarily spiritually literate documentary about one of the world's greatest nature artists.
10/05/04
A wondrous look at an artist and his work with lots of joyous surprises.
09/30/04
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When it's at its most self-aware, Rivers and Tides precociously tweaks the pessimist's view of art as an exercise in futility.
12/19/03
Most of Goldsworthy's work is impermanent, but Rivers and Tides captures, permanently, both the art and the artist, showing us a creative, productive life in the process of being well-lived.
12/19/03
The film doesn’t just explain Goldsworthy’s vision -- it brings us closer to seeing the world through his eyes.
09/11/03
Rivers and Tides is subtle and meditative almost to a fault ... So it's fortunate that the film is relatively short and that its subject -- Andy Goldsworthy, a Scottish sculptor known for working with nature -- is so fascinating.
08/17/03
A documentary that introduces us to an artist whose work is full of contradictions -- contradictions that spill over into the act of watching the movie.
08/15/03
You will want someone to talk to about the film and acknowledge the marvels you saw.
08/08/03
The artistry of Thomas Riedelsheimer's film perfectly compliments Goldsworthy's art.
08/07/03
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A lovely, curiously inspiring appreciation of Goldsworthy's unusual artistic vision.
08/04/03
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