A Dozen Documentaries on DVD

A list of a dozen delightful documentaries.

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry: B AI WEIWE

“Born in 1957, Beijing-based Ai Weiwei is perhaps the most internationally visible contemporary Chinese artist. Philip Tinari has described his practice as a, “multitasking sprawl–encompassing artmaking, curating, publishing and architectural design–[that] threatens to answer the vaguely unsettling question, What would Andy Warhol’s career have looked like if it had played out in turn-of-the-millennium China? (For one thing, architecture might have stood in for film; where Warhol created an alter-Hollywood, Ai is a self-invented starchitect).” After spending the early 1980s in New York, Ai moved back to Beijing in 1994. Already an important member of the Stars group, a socially critical movement that borrowed heavily from western art and culture, he established the famed China Art Archives and Warehouse in 1997. In 2000, on the occasion of the Shanghai Biennale, he organized the attention-grabbing group exhibition Fuck Off in collaboration with curator Feng Boyi. More recently, he was involved in the design of the Olympic Stadium in Beijing by Herzog & de Meuron. This publication takes an in-depth look at Ai’s under-explored engagement with ceramics, and is published on the occasion of a solo exhibition of his recent ceramic work at Holland’s Groningen Museum.”

The Wolfpack: B ANGULO B

The Imposter: B BARCLAY

Life Itself: B EBERT RO

Paul Goodman Changed My Life: B GOODMAN

SuperMensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon: B GORDON S

“Recounts the career and times of talent manager and Hollywood insider Shep Gordon, told through interviews with Shep Gordon himself as well as Alice Cooper, Emeril Lagasse, Michael Douglas, Anne Murray and many of his other clients and friends.”

Finding Fela: B KUTI FEL

Finding Vivian Maier: B MAIER

Bettie Page Reveals All: B PAGE BET

“An intimate look at one of the world’s most recognized sex symbols, told in her own words for the first time, impoverished southern family, to high school salutatorian, to scandalous ’50s pin-up model, to shocking retirement in 1957 at the peak of her modeling career. With a stunning array of gorgeous photographs, unusual archival material, and playful movie footage.”

Searching for Sugar Man: B RODRIGUE

Cutie and the Boxer: B SHINOHAR

Monk with a Camera: B Vreeland

 

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