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Release Date -- August 22, 2006 |
Director: Sydney Pollack Genre: Documentary Distributor: Sony Home Entertainment DVD Release Date: August 22, 2006 Run Time: 84 minutes Academy Award®-winning director Sydney Pollack (Tootsie, Out of Africa, The Interpreter), inspired by his friendship with renowned architect Frank Gehry, spent five years working on his first feature-length documentary. The result, the critically acclaimed Sony Pictures Classics’ film, SKETCHES OF FRANK GEHRY, arrives on DVD from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on August 22, 2006. Frank Gehry has been responsible for the design of some of the most stunning buildings in the world, including The Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the Guggenheim Bilbao in Spain and the Experience Music Project in Seattle. As Gehry explains, he begins each project by sketching the design. This love for the sketch motivated Pollack to try to capture that quality in his film by using a combination of film and Mini DV (digital video). Spending countless hours in Gehry’s studio, on building sites, and in his home, this quiet and unobtrusive shooting style has captured, for the first time, the essence of Gehry’s unique architectural process, and his shy and elusive personality. As a counterpoint, Pollack captures on film the grandeur of some of Gehry’s most remarkable architectural accomplishments. At the heart of the SKETCHES OF FRANK GEHRY is the low-key informal quality that Pollack brings to his conversations with Gehry. In addition, Pollack interviewed many of Gehry’s greatest admirers including actor Dennis Hopper, musician Sir Bob Geldof and entertainment executives Barry Diller, Michael Eisner and Michael Ovitz. Critics were enchanted by both the film and its subject. According to Jan Stuart of Newsday, “We are seduced by the rules-busting fabulousness of Gehry’s output.” Glenn Whipp in the L.A. Daily News stated, “Gehry, a cheerful, energetic, self-deprecating man closing in on his 80th birthday, makes for an engaging subject” and Lisa Schwarzbaum in Entertainment Weekly called the collaboration between Gehry and Pollack, “a mutual admiration society.” DVD Special Features • Q & A with director Sydney Pollack • Previews • 1.78 Anamorphic Widescreen SKETCHES OF FRANK GEHRY, a Sony Pictures Classics film, directed by Sydney Pollack. Year of Original Release: 2006 Color: Yes Running Tim: 84 mins Rated: PG-13 for brief strong language DVD Catalog # 15519 UPC Code 0-43396-15519-0 DVD Order Date July 20, 2006 DVD SLP $24.96 Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is a Sony Pictures Entertainment company. SPE is a division of Sony Corporation of America, a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Sony Corporation. SPE's global operations encompass motion picture production and distribution; television production and distribution; digital content creation and distribution; worldwide channel investments; home entertainment acquisition and distribution; operation of studio facilities; development of new entertainment products, services and technologies; and distribution of filmed entertainment in 67 countries. Sony Pictures Entertainment can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.sonypictures.com.
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