Veteran filmmaker Sydney Pollack's documentary debut, a chummy portrait of his friend Frank Gehry produced for the PBS
American Masters series, is rescued from its inclination to smug, celebrity-testimonial-driven hagiography by Gehry's own considerable charm and infectious enthusiasm. Born in Canada in 1929, Gehry studied art before he studied architecture, and approached the construction of buildings with a sculptor's eye. Influenced equally by Finnish modernist Alvar Aalto and the childhood memory of sitting on the floor with his grandmother, building complicated cityscapes from wood scraps destined for the family's stove, Gehry married a sensual appreciati...
Released:
2006
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
83 mins