By Gregory Crofton Robert Mapplethorpe was determined to become a famous artist. He wanted fame as badly as Andy Warhol did. Both men achieved their goal, but while Warhol has reputation that seems to grow in stature ever year, Mapplethorpe…
‘Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures’ ~ Interview with the Directors of the Documentary
MAPPLETHORPE: LOOK AT THE PICTURES is an HBO documentary about the life of controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe from his rise to fame in the 1970s to his untimely death in 1989. Directors Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato share a clip…
Stanley Kubrick: The Lost Tapes
A short documentary about the early life and feature films of the great Stanley Kubrick, as narrated by himself. The narration was pulled from interviews that took place in 1966 with Jeremy Bernstein. Bernstein was writing a profile on the…
Chuck Close: A Portrait in Progress
A documentary about Chuck Close, a photographer and painter who specializes in making huge human face pictures. At the age of 48, an artery in his spine collapsed and it nearly killed him. He survived but became paralyzed from the…