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William Eggleston in the Real World
Directed by
Michael Almereyda
2005
86m
Documentary
,
Biography
6.2
89%
65%
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Documentary about William Eggleston, a famous modern American photographer.
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Cast of William Eggleston in the Real World
William J. Eggleston
Self
Michael Almereyda
Self - Narrator (voice) / Director / Writer / Producer
Winston Eggleston
Self
Leigh Haizlip
Self
Jesse Dylan
Producer
Anthony Katagas
Producer
William Eggleston in the Real World Ratings & Reviews
Hyperallergic
Tobias Carroll
A fascinating exploration of the impossibility of interpreting one's vision beyond a certain point. Eggleston's photographs are full of history and character; attempting to find a specific meaning is an effort doomed to failure.
Nitrate Online
Dan Lybarger
Watching "William Eggleston in the Real World" is frustrating but intriguing.
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Philip Martin
Eggleston is obviously wired a little different than most of us, like all real artists, he sees things most of us don't...
L.A. Weekly
Scott Foundas
An uncannily revealing portrait of a major American artist at work, all the more remarkable for the deceptive casualness with which it unfolds, as if Almereyda had just shown up.
Boston Globe
Mark Feeney
William Eggleston in the Real World offers an admiring and affectionate, if also unillusioned, view of its subject at work, play, and not much of anything (a suitably Egglestonian activity).
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
John Beifuss
At times, the cinema verite style suggests the 'psychic disarray, intimately observed' (Almereyda's words) of Eggleston's own 1970s video project, 'Stranded in Canton'...
Film Journal International
David Noh
An absorbing depiction of the artist.
The Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
The result isn't particularly mesmerizing, but it does offer a well-rounded portrait that will be of particular interest to photography lovers.
TV Guide
Ken Fox
Without slavishly imitating the photographer's distinctive style, Almereyda also manages to connect his own images to all that's 'Egglestonian' in the photographer's world.
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
Eggleston's rigor might be mistaken for languor, but Almereyda has just the temperament to get it right.
Slant Magazine
Jeremiah Kipp
What Almereyda sees in Eggleston's work are the things that seem to drive Almereyda's films: life as a continual paradox.
Variety
Ronnie Scheib
Ultimately, biodoc is less about Eggleston living in the 'real world' than about Almereyda filming there.
Newsday
Jan Stuart
Consistently more intriguing than Almereyda's recent documentary of a Sam Shepard play rehearsal (This So-Called Disaster), in part due to the subject's taciturn nature and his disinterest in the hows and the wherefores of his craft.
New York Times
Ned Martel
In this sublimely bleak documentary, the photographer William Eggleston allows the video camera to follow him on a shoot in Mayfield, Ky.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
Eggleston's photographs come across loud and clear.
Village Voice
Ed Halter
[A] subtle, elegant documentary.
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