Alice Neel

Name: Alice Neel
Genre: Documentary
Released: April 20, 2007
Duration: 81 min
Rating: 60

2007

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SeeThink Films | Release Date: April 20, 2007

Summary: Directed by her grandson Andrew Neel, this feature-length documentary tells the story of American painter Alice Neel (1900-1984). Exploring the struggles she faces as a woman artist, a single mother, and a painter who defied convention, the film males use of extensive textual, photographic, and filmic archives. [SeeThink Productions]

Director: Andrew Neel

Genre(s): Documentary

Runtime: 81 min

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Sheri Linden

The finely crafted Alice Neel is at once tribute, investigative journalism and messy family drama. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

Andrew Neel's fascinating but troubling documentary about his famous grandmother is 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. Read full review

Andrew Barker

Much like Neel's portraits, the film is marked by audacious understatement, neither whitewashing nor sensationalizing the artist's sterling achievements and messy personal life. Read full review

Matt Zoller Seitz

It achieves the documentary format’s basic goal of illuminating history while also demonstrating, through filmmaking choices, how an artist’s style reveals his or her personality. Read full review

Cate McQuaid

For all the juicy storytelling, Alice Neel remains, in this film, a cipher: brash, grandmotherly, and beyond understanding. Read full review

Kenneth Baker

Comes across as a cautionary tale. Read full review

Julia Wallace

Neel 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. Read full review

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KenS.

May 28, 2007

This film is a rich portrait of Alice Neal done much in the manner of her own brilliant art. In its richness It revealed many of the rough spots of her life and gave us a portrait of her world, With the inclusion of the family members the film takes on a very moving presence. The film is This film is a rich portrait of Alice Neal done much in the manner of her own brilliant art. In its richness It revealed many of the rough spots of her life and gave us a portrait of her world, With the inclusion of the family members the film takes on a very moving presence. The film is riveting from beginning to end. The full screen images of her paintings are a spectacular experience and makes me want to see them at the same scale and luminosity in a museum or gallery. The film shows her perserverence against forces out of her control , both as a woman and as an artist working in her manner, In the face of this, to witness her eventual recognition is very moving. It is finally a wonderful record for all time of Alice Neel and her very special family.… Expand

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