One of the most riveting documentaries I saw in 2019, Cunningham tells the immersive story of Merce Cunningham.

| Oct 3, 2022

Cunningham is maybe one for the fans only, but I was pretty engrossed for most of it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 22, 2020

While the lack of context is irksome (there are no mentions of Balanchine, Martha Graham or Twyla Tharp), the film also works as a portrait of two unique personalities. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 12, 2020

A hypnotic view of the fabled gay star dancer/teacher Merce Cunningham's choreography.

| May 22, 2020

Even decades since creation, Cunningham's choreography still stuns... Stripped away from convention and without explanation, it flies, but stuck inside tired modes of storytelling, it only stumbles.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 26, 2020

The results are attractive and memorable, but - given that the film's account of Cunningham's career keeps stressing how innovative he was - you might hanker for a better idea of how his dances looked to their first theatre audiences.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 19, 2020

If Kovgan's sharp restagings in subway tunnels and spartan woods are inventive, so too is her handling of archive footage, her subject found in motion inset on screen alongside scribbled notes, as if alive inside a scrapbook.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 18, 2020

[A] delightful - if occasionally baffling - portrait of one of the most revolutionary creative artists of the 20th century.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 16, 2020

Worthwhile, even if the dance sequences are lost in the editing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 13, 2020

The film is, I think, just as Cunningham would have wanted it: cerebral, highbrow and mildly frustrating, with nothing so conventional as talking heads or context.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 11, 2020

The revolutionary visuals find endless ways to honour the mind of an innovator - but simultaneously risk an overwhelm of aesthetic information, rather than a lucid insight into the anatomy of contemporary dance.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 9, 2020

A powerful exploration of the nature of creation, and how an artist should never aim for interpretation: it's the audience that interprets.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 5, 2020

What the film does present is worth the price of admission alone, particularly in 3D, but it still feels like a missed opportunity.

| Feb 28, 2020

Shot in vibrant 3D, the dance sequences veritably leap, spin and gyrate off the screen, offering a captivating visual spectacle that does more to spotlight Cunningham's ingenuity than all the eloquent droning of a dozen expert interviews.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 31, 2020

I maintain as much of an appreciation for modern dance as I do for watching golf on 온라인카지노추천. But this is a movie, and as such, anything can be, and in this case is, rendered cinematic.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 29, 2020

The 90-minute film may not cohere into an overwhelming whole... But its subject will prove inspiring to many artists struggling with the meaning of their own work.

| Jan 23, 2020

While writer/director Alla Kovgan covers Cunningham's philosophy and contemporary reactions to his work, she can't quite convey its raw emotional content.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 22, 2020

Terrific profile of iconic American dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham.

| Original Score: A- | Jan 21, 2020

Although the documentary breaks no new ground in that genre, [Alla] does tickle with letters seemingly typed on screen as letters are read aloud, and she poses old pictures with new interpretations of Cunningham's dances.

| Jan 17, 2020

Kovgan can get a bit too cutesy in how she uses framing to place these recreations into a proscenium (virtually and literally), but it mostly works.

| Jan 17, 2020