This documentary is useful to neophytes, and it will get you up to speed on the general shape of Wright's episodic life, career and accomplishments. Its on-screen experts are on the silly side. Meryl Secrest strays into self-parody as she delivers her glib stories with an over the top poseur accent originating from parts unknown. Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer looks like a pale, red-eyed cadaver. Brendan Gill overstates half his anecdotes until any reasonable person begins rolling their eyes. As with any career this long, many Wright stories are truncated or left out. The speedy failure of Midway Gardens (via bad financing) is pushed off screen by the tragedy at Taliesin. A suitable coda for this production would have been to flash the images of all the architects Wright influenced or trained directly (Bart Prince, Bruce Goff, Schindler, Neutra, John Lautner, Paolo Soleri, too many too name...).
Ken Russell "civil-wars" another topic. And the treatment is now a tepid, dull, formulaic, outdated way to encounter any material.
Ken Russell "civil-wars" another topic. And the treatment is now a tepid, dull, formulaic, outdated way to encounter any material.