Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time
Roxie Releasing | Release Date: January 2, 2002 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Universal acclaim based on 20 Critic Reviews
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18
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Baltimore SunMichael Sragow
In its own quiet, voluptuous way, Rivers and Tides, an unpretentiously brilliant documentary, uses the work of Scottish sculptor Andy Goldsworthy to open up the hidden drama of the natural universe. Read full review
100
San Francisco ChronicleEdward Guthmann
Enchanting documentary that also serves as an animated gallery of Goldsworthy’s uniquely ephemeral art. Read full review
100
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
The film would be more informative if it put Goldsworthy into the broader context of modernist art movements. It's visually ravishing from start to finish, though. Read full review
90
Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
Intoxicating and meditative by turns, helped by Fred Frith's minimalist score, this film opens a portal into a singular creative mind. Read full review
90
Washington PostDesson Thomson
Watch this film. You may never look at nature indifferently again. Read full review
88
New York PostV.A. Musetto
Thoughtful and entertaining documentary. Read full review
88
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Watching this movie is like daydreaming. Read full review
88
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam Lacey
A beautiful, probing art documentary. Read full review
83
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
Mesmerizing and curiously satisfying idyll that gradually, slyly maneuvers us into a whole new way of looking at the delicate relationship between man, art and Mother Nature. Read full review
80
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
Fred Frith's lovely and subdued score is a perfect accompaniment. Read full review
80
The New York TimesStephen Holden
As the film's images accumulate, the movie becomes a sustained and ultimately refreshing meditation on surrender to the idea of temporality. Read full review
80
L.A. WeeklyDavid Chute
Very few art documentaries are as deeply in tune with the spirit of their subjects, and the implications are enormous, since Goldsworthy is the rare contemporary art star whose work (what a radical notion) is actually about something. Read full review
80
Village VoiceEd Halter
Appropriately, Riedelsheimer shoots Goldsworthy's mini-megaliths with a landscape painter's eye; set to Fred Firth's modernist score, some images verge on Kubrick territory. Read full review
80
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
At times, Goldsworthy's philosophy edges into fuzzy New Age-isms, but with an ever-widening gulf separating humans from their environment, his work demonstrates the enlightening pleasures of reconnecting. Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneAlan G. Artner
I know of no documentary on a contemporary artist that conveys so much about the artist's work so lyrically and directly. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeChristine Temin
May bring Goldsworthy's art closer than anything else to ''permanence'' in any traditional sense. Read full review
70
VarietyDennis Harvey
Takes a beautifully lensed look at the work of Scottish "landscape sculptor" Andy Goldsworthy, whose unique creations -- composed of icicles, leaves, sticks, rocks, etc. -- are often as not simply swept away by the next tide or wind gust. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleKimberley Jones
The film also inspires, if unconsciously, the viewer to rethink what exactly constitutes art. Read full review
60
Washington PostPaul Richard
The trouble with this art movie is that it's more a movie than it's art. Read full review
60
Chicago ReaderFred Camper
Doesn't add up to much more than a series of pretty pictures, and Goldsworthy's gnomic statements about the "energy" he perceives in "the plants and the land" are never fully explored. Read full review
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