SummaryIn 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 get... Read More
Directed By:Oren Jacoby
Shadowman
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Dec 7, 2017
80
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?
Nov 30, 2017
80
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.
Nov 27, 2017
80
Jacoby delivers an adroit portrait of the artist at work in a technical package which wraps itself smoothly around this intense, surprising story.
Nov 27, 2017
80
Achieves its goal of shining a spotlight on its subject while delivering a fascinating true-life tale.
Nov 27, 2017
63
This is a gruesome art-world fairy tale unafraid to face the bitter details of its hero's tumultuous life.
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Production Company:
- Storyville Films
- Motto Pictures
Release Date:Dec 1, 2017
Duration:1 h 21 m
Awards
Tribeca Film Festival
• 2 Nominations
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival
• 1 Nomination
