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Robert Williams Mr. Bitchin'

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A portrait of artist and underground legend Robert Williams provides insight on American counterculture.
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Jennie Kermode Eye for Film 08/19/2013
4/5
What stands out about this film is how deftly it explores character through anecdote, effectively locating deeper meanings in what initially seems like casual observational footage. Go to Full Review
Mark R. Leeper Mark Leeper's Reviews 07/30/2013
7/10
a joyous introduction and a wild ride through the life and art of Robert Williams. Go to Full Review
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01/08/2019 What an amazing life! An artistic career spanning decades is explored in this engrossing and entertaining doc. Forging ahead on his own through the battlefield of highbrow Art society, Williams lays across the barbwire to let flow a tide of modern artists and an entire Art movement embodied in Juxtapoz Magazine, founded on his outlaw rebel beliefs. See more 04/05/2014 Excellent documentary of an overlooked master artist. This film explores Robert Williams life focusing on his powerful obsessive artistic passion spanning over 5 decades. It shows how, early on in the 50s/60s, "low brow" hot rod culture helped him survive and thrive as an illustrator. After that, how his inspiration from comics, incorporated with comic story structure with mind expanding drugs, the "fifth dimension, intellectual drive, deep contemplation and research of historical figures, paleontology, the effects of color and large breasts on an audience combined to help him flourish as such an outrageous and controversial painter! If you are lucky enough to see the movie with a Q&A, don't miss seeing him! The screening I attended, as part of the Mocca festival, included his very devoted and brilliantly matched wife, as well as Blondie, a willing subject of one of his salacious tour de force paintings. See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis A portrait of artist and underground legend Robert Williams provides insight on American counterculture.
Director
Mary C. Reese, Doug Blake, Nancye Ferguson, Michael LaFetra, Stephen Nemeth
Producer
Doug Blake, Nancye Ferguson
Screenwriter
Nancye Ferguson, Doug Blake
Production Co
Rhino Films, Foundation Films
Genre
Documentary, Biography
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 13, 2014
Runtime
1h 29m
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