Shadowman

Name: Shadowman
Genre: Biography, Documentary
Released: December 1, 2017
Duration: 81 min
Rating: 78
Cast: Paul DeRienzo

2017

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Film Movement | Release Date: December 1, 2017 | Not Rated

Starring: Paul DeRienzo

Summary: In the 1980s, Richard Hambleton was the Shadowman, a specter in the night who painted hundreds of startling silhouettes on the walls of lower Manhattan and, along with Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, sparked the street art movement. After drug addiction and homelessness sent him spinning out of the art scene for 20 years, theIn the 1980s, Richard Hambleton was the Shadowman, a specter in the night who painted hundreds of startling silhouettes on the walls of lower Manhattan and, along with Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, sparked the street art movement. After drug addiction and homelessness sent him spinning out of the art scene for 20 years, the Shadowman gets a second chance but will he take it?… Expand

Director: Oren Jacoby

Genre(s): Biography, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 81 min

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Fionnuala Halligan

Nov 27, 2017

Jacoby delivers an adroit portrait of the artist at work in a technical package which wraps itself smoothly around this intense, surprising story. Read full review

Frank Scheck

Nov 27, 2017

Achieves its goal of shining a spotlight on its subject while delivering a fascinating true-life tale. Read full review

Alan Scherstuhl

Nov 30, 2017

[A] heartbreaking doc. Read full review

Robert Abele

Dec 7, 2017

Shadowman is at its unsettling, want-to-look-away best when tiptoeing around the question of what makes for success regarding artists like Hambleton: the hoopla that keeps the work in circulation, or the mysterious inner pilot light that keeps a self-destructive talent going? Read full review

Glenn Kenny

Nov 30, 2017

This intense documentary shows a driven creator walking the walk, so to speak, in the most perverse fashion possible. The story is both repellent and strangely inspiring. Read full review

Peter Goldberg

Nov 27, 2017

This is a gruesome art-world fairy tale unafraid to face the bitter details of its hero's tumultuous life. Read full review

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