rocking good news!
This is coming very soon to a PBS station near you!
It's airing as part of PBS' excellent American Masters series. Check your local listings here:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmast.../upcoming.html
Directed by Ric Burns
Rating: MA
The two-part, four-hour documentary is narrated by artist and musician Laurie Anderson and features artist Jeff Koons as the voice of Andy Warhol. Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film is a definitive film portrait of an artist whose signature works are among the most recognized and sought-after works of art ever created. No artist of the second half of the 20th century was more famous – or, perhaps in the end, more famously misunderstood – than Andy Warhol. At once the most accessible and enigmatic, straightforward and elusive, naïve and savagely ironic artist of his time, he was the Wizard of Icons – the supreme archaeologist of a culture of desire – and the mercurial Merlin of a mass media age.