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The Cool School
Directed by
Morgan Neville
G
2008
86m
Documentary
7.0
92%
63%
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How LA Learned to Love Modern Art. A lesson in how a few renegade artists built an art scene from scratch.
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Cast of The Cool School
Jeff Bridges
Self - Narrator (voice)
Andy Warhol
Self (archive footage)
Dennis Hopper
Self
Ivan Karp
Self
Dean Stockwell
Self
Eve Babitz
Self
Sonia Gechtoff
Self
Frank Gehry
Self
William Claxton
Self
Morgan Neville
Director / Writer
Kristine Mckenna
Writer / Producer
The Cool School Ratings & Reviews
Stop Smiling
James Hughes
Neville's film shows, in effect, how deliberate the founding of an art movement can be. But also how thrilling it is for those at the eye of the storm.
eFilmCritic.com
David Cornelius
The Cool School is neither as lively nor as complete as it could be, but as an introduction to modern art, it's a fine freshman course.
Metromix.com
Geoff Berkshire
Breezy doc lives up to its title.
L.A. Weekly
Ron Stringer
Veteran documentarist Morgan Neville's illustrated history of the painters and sculptors associated with Venice's Ferus Gallery (1957-1967) is at once lively and analytical.
Cinema Signals
Jules Brenner
Makes the case that there's more than basket weaving and freeway driving going on in the seedbed of originality we know as the Great Basin of L.A.
Boxoffice Magazine
Sara Maria Vizcarrondo
Sweeps you off your feet with quick-witted visuals and cleverly used archival footage.
Film Journal International
David Noh
Definitely proves that, contrary to certain opinions, Los Angeles is not a cultural wasteland where fine art is concerned.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Diverting.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
The Cool School, a breezy, lively documentary about a thin slice of the Los Angeles fine art scene in the 1950s, is easy on the eyes, and the ears too.
Newsday
John Anderson
Cool School is a must for anyone interested in 20th century American art.
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Documentarian Morgan Neville takes an appropriately lively, left-field approach to The Cool School's eye-opening history of the Beat-era Left Coast art scene -- a lesser-known chapter in the story of American modern art.
Village Voice
Nathan Lee
All told, and well told, this is essential history.
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager
Largely avoids sharply delineated portraits, with its focus on the scene at the expense of individuals, ultimately resulting in a documentary that doesn't rise above the functional.
NewsBlaze
Kam Williams
Though designed more for the devotee of the arts than your average moviegoer, the film is still apt to enthrall even the uninitiated who wouldn't know a Jackson Pollock from a Willem de Kooning.
San Francisco Chronicle
Kenneth Baker
No one emerges very well defined from this historical shuffle, but those who know the artists' works, or names such as Hopps and Blum, but have never heard them speak, will find The Cool School absorbing and informative.
Seattle Times
Tom Keogh
A lively film that doesn't linger too long on any one thought or with any one interviewee.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Bill White
It is a fascinating journey through a piece of art history, the full impact of which may be yet to come.
Variety
John Anderson
What The Cool School does so well, through its color accents and black-and-white photography...is impart a sense of discovery.
Boston Globe
Cate McQuaid
Morgan Neville's quick-paced documentary The Cool School recounts the rise and fall of Ferus Gallery and the mark it made on American art.
New Times
Luke Y. Thompson
...a fun, jazzy look at L.A.'s first real wave of modern artists
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