New documentary about W.Eggleston

i've been putting off buying this, i'm hoping this comes to PBS or one of the movie channels i get, it's only 26 minutes long.

looks good though.

bob
 
I recently rented the other Eggleston video from Netflix after seeing the exhibition at the Whitney and based on that, I wouldn't run and out and buy this one. Although there was a great scene where he's giving a lecture and they talk about how he often only takes one shot of each scene and he says he doesn't want to have to pick between 4 or 5 shots of the same thing. I love that.
 
At 26 min. it is not great value, but I think I am getting it for my birthday. I take 'William Eggleston in the Real World' out of the library every few months.
 
Cool. Looks like the most straightforward Movie About William Eggleston so far, which is not a bad thing.

"Eggleston in the real world" is cringe-inducing for me, because of the filmographer's need to pour on us the very details of his tortured soul while we really want to hear about the subject at hand.

"William Eggleston: By the ways" is not a bad endeavour if you seriously like W.E.'s photographs. But it's elliptical, elusive, inconclusive, and almost mute, like the man, and it can get on people's nerve pretty quickly. I saw it at a museum projection, and the full room of the beginning was constantly dwindling down throughout the movie. I stayed until the end because I thought there was something genuinely interesting in saying nothing about someone's art which is so deeply pictural. But every once in a while I thought "damn these French filmmakers and their inability to tell it plain..."
 
For me, William Eggleston remains one of the foremost color photographers.

Even if the film is 26 min it provides us a glimpse into his modus operandi (MO). tks.
 
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