Directed with great feeling and in a nonjudgmental way.
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Alice Neel (2007)
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Reviews Counted:15
Fresh:11
Rotten:4
Average Rating:6.7/10
Theatrical Release:Apr 20, 2007 Limited
Synopsis: Alice Neel was one of the great portrait painters of the 20th century. She reinvented the genre of portraiture by expressing the inner landscape of her varied sitters, among them Andy Warhol, Annie... [More]
Director: Andrew Neel
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There's much pungent detail on offer here, chronicling Neel's unorthodox lifestyle in Cuba and Spanish Harlem, and the struggles she had in an era when abstract painting was triumphant; all of which is given a little more edge than you might expect.
05/22/09
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04/23/09
This documentary by the artist's grandson Andrew Neel, delves into the life and imagination of Alice Neel, the defiant pioneering, cutting edge, raunchy and prolific late artist.
10/06/08
A decent warm-up to a more robust documentary that'll never be made.
09/15/08
The finely crafted Alice Neel is at once tribute, investigative journalism and messy family drama.
09/12/08
Top CriticA surprisingly dense, multilayered documentary on the painter Alice Neel.
06/11/08
There is a great deal more to Alice's story: the avant-garde of the 1920s; the government's support of artists during the Great Depression; the feminist movement of the 1970s, during which she became an icon. This rich film captures it all.
05/16/08
Alice Neel offers a relatively objective view of a person who, seeing life as a sentence to be served, spent it doing the thing she loved.
05/15/08
If the artist is an elusive target, the art is as sharp as a razor blade. The portraits are extraordinary.
04/18/08
Top CriticSo many people speak onscreen, from so many folds of Neel's life, that, despite captions, the viewer feels taxed to keep straight their identities and relationships to Neel.
01/25/08
Top CriticFor all the juicy storytelling, Alice Neel remains, in this film, a cipher: brash, grandmotherly, and beyond understanding.
08/24/07
Top CriticThe effect is spirited rather than incriminating and, bolstered by Jonah Rapino’s contemplative score, as piercingly detailed as one of Alice’s mesmerizing portraits.
04/21/07
[It's] more than a mere biography of an important 20th-century artist: It's also an intimate portrait of a family member that questions whether or not 'great artist' and 'good parent' can ever be combined in the same person.
04/20/07
The fascinating documentary Alice Neel illuminates history while also demonstrating how an artist’s style reveals his or her personality.
04/20/07
Top CriticNeel is a compelling subject, but she's more alive in one of her paintings than in all of the voluminous video footage her grandson thrusts upon us.
04/17/07
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May 19, 2007:
This documentary by the artist's grandson Andrew Neel, delves into the life and imagination of Alice Neel, the defiant pioneering, cutting edge, raunchy and prolific late artist.
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