Despite the unpredictability of its subject matter, Scott Walker: 30 Century Man is a fairly standard profile... a good thing, as Walker's enigmatic aura and experimental musical forays benefit from framing inside a linear narrative structure.

| Apr 5, 2019

"Ultimately, your work is your world," Walker says toward the end of the documentary. 30th Century Man succeeds, then, because it inhabits the world of its subject.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 6, 2018

Scott Walker: 30 Century Man gestures toward Walker's own process, as he has been and continues to think through the possibilities of sound.

| May 12, 2010

For Walker fans, I imagine 30 Century Man will come as a bit of a vindication, having the knowledge that they knew this world before it had been fully documented and made ready for public consumption

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 11, 2009

Scott Walker: 30 Century Man (which takes its title from a Walker-penned song) makes a fascinating case that in the years that followed, Walker became the music equivalent of a 'poet's poet.'

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 6, 2009

Director Stephen Kijak's profile of reclusive pop icon Scott Walker is one of the most remarkable music documentaries in ages.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 5, 2009

Scott Walker: 30 Century Man chronicles the career of musician Scott Walker, an enigmatic figure whose influence far outreaches his relative obscurity.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 27, 2009

Scott Walker: 30 Century Man is the latest in a mini-wave of pop-music docs, like The Devil and Daniel Johnston, that try to inflate cult figures into lost geniuses.

| Original Score: B- | Feb 25, 2009

Those unfamiliar with [Scott Walker] or, especially, those who don't like his music, will be only moderately engaged and ultimately underwhelmed.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jan 31, 2009

Director Stephen Kijak not only got a composed, almost warm interview out of Walker, but he filmed some of the sessions for Walker's latest adventuresome recording project.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 23, 2009

By actually playing the music and allowing this commentary, Kijak hits upon a kind of astute music criticism, and an argument for music as challenging as this.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 23, 2009

Scott Walker: 30 Century Man glosses over the depression and alcoholism that have bedeviled Walker as well as any relationships he might have had. But that doesn't make the film any less interesting.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 19, 2008

One of the best music documentaries ever made, Scott Walker: 30 Century Man will have you yearning to learn more and fully immerse yourself in its subject.

| Dec 19, 2008

Breathlessly details the step-by-step evolution of an enigmatic musical artist within pop culture from the 1960s on to the avant-garde, though little about the man.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Dec 17, 2008

Scott Walker: 30 Century Man, is the story of and oracular singer, experimental composer, British-based American expatriate and reclusive cult figure.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 17, 2008

The doc's biggest revelation may be the extent of his stardom, even as he began to explore bawdy Jacques Brel chansons and psychedelic dada crooning.

| Dec 16, 2008

Stephen Kijak's 30 Century Man hacks away at the mythology surrounding the enigmatic artist, proving that his about-face wasn't nearly as abrupt as it often seems.

| Original Score: 4/6 | Dec 10, 2008

A riveting documentary.

| Apr 30, 2007

A ghostly, sonorous boom that sometimes feels like the loneliest sound in the world.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 27, 2007

The proof of the pig is in the pounding: it sounds good.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 27, 2007