Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film

Two decades after his sudden death at the age of 58, the strange, silver-wigged figure of Pop artist Andy Warhol remains a subject of endless fascination. But unlike most treatments of the artist's life, Ric Burns' four-hour film is less an illumination of this enigmatic and controversial character than a reminder of why his portraits of Campbell's Soup cans and his eight-hour, slow-motion film of a sleeping man, were crucial to the development of post-WWII art and contemporary popular culture. Rather than dwelling on "Andy Warhol, Superstar," Burns assembles a small group of critics, curators and commentators to discuss Warhol's significance as a filmmaker and fine ...