Eames: The Architect & The Painter

Name: Eames: The Architect & The Painter
Genre: Biography, Documentary
Released: November 18, 2011
Duration: 83 min
Rating: 63

2011

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First Run Features | Release Date: November 18, 2011 | Not Rated

Summary: The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames are widely regarded as America’s most important designers. Perhaps best remembered for their mid-century plywood and fiberglass furniture, the Eames Office also created a mind-bending variety of other products, from splints for wounded military during World War II, to photography,The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames are widely regarded as America’s most important designers. Perhaps best remembered for their mid-century plywood and fiberglass furniture, the Eames Office also created a mind-bending variety of other products, from splints for wounded military during World War II, to photography, interiors, multi-media exhibits, graphics, games, films and toys. But their personal lives and influence on significant events in American life – from the development of modernism, to the rise of the computer age – has been less widely understood. Narrated by James Franco, Eames: The Architect and the Painter is the first film since their death dedicated to these creative geniuses and their work. (First Run Features)… Expand

Director: Bill Jersey and Jason Cohn

Genre(s): Biography, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 83 min

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David Lewis

Dec 1, 2011

As fascinating - and at times oblique - as the famous couple themselves. Read full review

Mark Feeney

Dec 8, 2011

The Eamery, as some called it, was highly successful as a business - and, more important, as an exercise in tastemaking. "We wanted to make the best for the most for the least,'' the Eameses like to say. Read full review

Dennis Harvey

Nov 14, 2011

Jason Cohn and Bill Jersey's sprightly documentary weighs its subjects' unique accomplishments and widespread influence while probing a relationship more complex than its sunny public face indicated. Read full review

A.O. Scott

Nov 17, 2011

The most gratifying thing about "Eames" is that it shows, in marvelous detail, how their work was an extension of themselves and how their distinct personalities melded into a unique and protean force. Read full review

Eric Hynes

Nov 15, 2011

As this engaging, if rote, doc points out, the name Eames, much like Victorian, now defines the style of an era. Yet how many of us knew that the industrial designers behind those midcentury molded mod chairs were an eccentric married team? Read full review

Tom Dawson

Jul 28, 2012

Thorough if workmanlike documentary. Read full review

Joseph Jon Lanthier

Nov 13, 2011

Structurally lopsided, the narrative jumps directly into the success of their first molded-plywood chair, and meanders from there into the numerous short films the Eames Studio made for government agencies and IT companies. Read full review

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